James the illustrator man

I came back at the start of this year wanting to grow my artistic practice and develop my skills in the medium i felt comfortable in. Now usually you get told to move out and expand your practice to other media, but in the project mostly i want to really refine what i know. Having not been given any real classical training in drawing i feel like it's the most important thing on my plate right now so i don't become the age old..

"Jack of all trades, Good at none"

While writing the essay I've found that i can actually contact one of the artists i'm talking about, due to the illustration being quite recent and not exactly super famous despite the skill of said artist.

It's like i'm really studying now, because I've read the books and the articles on one piece, but that's easy because its so famous. With this illustration, there's no articles or books on what he's doing, just the artist...

Stained glass Cathedral wall

In response to the text from The warhammer 40k lexicanum text-

To battle such enemies as Daemons, creatures that are not of this realm but formed of sorcery and madness, a Grey Knight must embrace the power of the Warp to battle a Daemon with its own weapons. Each Grey Knight is an accomplished, powerful psyker whose psychic presence is anathema to creatures of the Warp. They are trained to channel their psychic energies into a halo of protective wards known as The Aegis. Thusly armoured, a Grey Knight's presence becomes unpalatable to Daemons, making him immune to corruption, able to wield forbidden black magic, harness tainted artefacts and scour blasphemous tomes all without risk of being overwhelmed by the cursed power of Chaos.[1a]

The Grey Knights hold a unique honour among the chapters of the Adeptus Astartes - in over ten thousand years of service, not a single one of their number has ever defected to Chaos.

Grey knight practice 

In the last few years games have become a much more prevalent part of the average Joe’s life and they are continuing to grow in popularity and diversity.  The technological revolution and evolution of digital culture have brought upon what Charlie Brooker has described as a “renaissance” in the gaming industry and a broadly debated question has arisen, Are games art?

Games combine the Practices of writers, illustrators, animators, filmmakers, architects and designers. Does each of these disciplines not create work that we see as art or at least as artful? By bringing together all these it looks like games should be the pinnacle of artful expression, being interactive and engaging but also mysterious and cryptic. But due to their fairly recent birth and evolution games have only a little pull in artistic culture, which when you consider the first point is baffling.

Dream Comic storyboard and character designs :P

While researching for my essay i came upon this, A playthrough of the game 'The Journey'

It's one of the most beautiful things i've ever watched beside a few immersion breaking notifications.