{"id":21888,"date":"2023-01-13T17:25:52","date_gmt":"2023-01-13T22:25:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/?p=21888"},"modified":"2023-01-13T17:25:52","modified_gmt":"2023-01-13T22:25:52","slug":"industrious-illustrating-25-a-year-of-progress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/2023\/01\/13\/industrious-illustrating-25-a-year-of-progress\/","title":{"rendered":"Industrious Illustrating #25 &#8211; A Year of Progress"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This month I&#8217;ve been working a lot on &#8220;Flamechaser&#8221; behind the scenes as the team develops the 0.6 demo build that we hope to post on Itch (https:\/\/jarojakd.itch.io\/flamechaser) early this year. It&#8217;s been nearly a year since I joined the team, and as a result of foraying into game art and mecha design for the project, I&#8217;ve developed a lot of new techniques and built upon old ones.<\/p>\n<p>I drew the new illustration of the Penguin and the Phoenix Heart clashing in hand-to-hand combat this year on the 11th, while I drew the old illustration of the 3rd of February last year. When I put these two images side by side, I&#8217;m pretty satisfied with how much progress I&#8217;ve made over the past year! I&#8217;m motivated to keep working on my art to see what new heights I can reach artistically in the future.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-21889 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Mech-vs.-Mech-jpg-300x212.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"565\" height=\"399\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Mech-vs.-Mech-jpg-300x212.jpg 300w, https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Mech-vs.-Mech-jpg-768x543.jpg 768w, https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Mech-vs.-Mech-jpg-1024x724.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 565px) 100vw, 565px\" \/> <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-21890 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Mech-vs.-Mech-300x212.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"559\" height=\"395\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Mech-vs.-Mech-300x212.jpg 300w, https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Mech-vs.-Mech-768x543.jpg 768w, https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Mech-vs.-Mech.jpg 842w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 559px) 100vw, 559px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re an artist, I encourage you to try redrawing an old piece of art that&#8217;s a year old or older and compare them side by side to see all the places where you&#8217;ve improved and where you can still continue to improve. I promise it&#8217;s a good exercise and also motivational!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This month I&#8217;ve been working a lot on &#8220;Flamechaser&#8221; behind the scenes as the team develops the 0.6 demo build that we hope to post on Itch (https:\/\/jarojakd.itch.io\/flamechaser) early this year. It&#8217;s been nearly a year since I joined the team, and as a result of foraying into game art and mecha design for the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2255,"featured_media":20547,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1963,1964,1965,1381,1883,1922,1885,1882],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21888"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2255"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21888"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21888\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21891,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21888\/revisions\/21891"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20547"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}