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Artistry

I like to call myself an artist.
I've been drawing since before I can remember. I didn't draw very well at the time. But I have gotten better since then.

Early on in life, I wanted to make videogames, but coding was too much for my little brain, so I dedicated my time on learning to design and create characters.

I spent a lot of time working to become a concept artist for games, but was never able to go to college for art. So I tried many ways to get an income as an artist.

I still think my art is not as good as I want it to be. I believe I could have been so much better if I had dedicated my art in different ways, and now I'm caught in-between a bunch of different artistic skill sets, never being too great at any of them.

I had a choice. become a cartoonist, or sell my soul and do furry commissions, which was a tempting offer.
I made the morally correct decision and chose to do comics. It also happened to be the financially bankrupt decision. Now I attempt to make funny comics.

Now when people laugh at my art, it will be intentional.
(hopefully)

Writing

I got into writing when I was about 8 years old. I drew up my own superhero and drafts of original stories. They weren't very good, but they were a start of my journey as a creator.
My first book drafts began when I was around 12 years old. I made a dozen or so. One of those drafts actually became a full fledged book that I self published through Barnes & Noble. I will not be revealing that book at this time. But I still plan on writing more books. Some may become novels, but others I am thinking of adapting into graphic novels.

Without going to school, I have tried to continue learning about writing and the English language on my own. So I have a lot of knowledge about writing, but it's not really refined yet.

Inspiration

When it comes to character design, that is my passion as an artist.

I grew up looking at videogame guide books, looking at the art of the characters, loving the details put into them. Even from a young age, I wanted to become a character designer and/or concept artist. Specifically for videogames.

I also had a love for comic books; superhero and comedic. I would read old comics that my mom and uncle had collected.

I was reading all of comics before I was reading any other kind of book but I later picked up novels and grew a fondness for them. However, I didn't get into classic literature until I was an adult.

All of these stories and arts that I grew up with inspired me to want to create my own stories and art, no matter what. Even if all my creations fall to deaf ears and blind eyes, at least I still created them and put them out into the world.

Ricktropolis

This was my account name for all my stuff back when I was considering everything to fit under a username, and not a brand. So I decided that the name and logo were hard to market, hard to spell, hard to advertise and watermark.
So I wanted to change it to a name and logo which was a lot more marketable and would represent a brand, and not just me.

VIDEOGAMES

I worked with a company called *REDACTED* for about six years as a concept artist and writer.

The company never went anywhere and we never released anything. The owner of the company pulled us (about five other guys) along with the promises of success and good works. But every time we got close to finishing something, he would change venue and start on an entirely new project.

After seeing the truth about the owner, I gave up on it and I took two of the other guys with me.

With the other two guys, we tried to get another company going, but we ended up getting too busy with life, drifting apart and going our separate ways.

About a year or so after that, and things calmed down, I decided to pick up a game that was left unfinished from before and try to finish that. So I then took about 8 months to make Afterworld.

Afterworld

Afterworld is a game that I began to make on the RPGMaker program under the business called Ravenarts ENT.

Due to poor playtesting, it was unknowingly semi-broken on release. I spent the next half year polishing it up and fixing it, but because of the poor release, the game was impossible to market and advertise.

I am no programmer, and I barely was able to use RPGMaker at first, but I feel like I eventually got the program down, at least to the point that I could finish the game.

It's nothing too special but I think it's fun.

It's about a spirit who wakes in the realm of the Afterworld, a sort of limbo between life and what lies beyond. There is a problem though. This new spirit is the only spirit that has shown up in the Afterworld for a long time, and the caretakers don't know why. On top of that, there are new creatures that show up in the Afterworld and are affecting the spirits that are already there.

This new spirit takes on the task of finding out what is wrong with the Afterworld and stopping it. Along the way, this spirit finds ghostly animal companions that can help fight. Some animals are part of the story, but some animals are hidden and can be missed.

The gameplay is turn-based, similar to classic final fantasy games. The only character on the team that has a lot of gear is the spirit character, who can equip different weapons which affect the gameplay style. Some weapons allow the use of spells, while others prohibit spells, to allow for more damage.

Find secrets, collect animal friends and find out what is wrong with the Afterworld.

If you are interested, you can still find the game on steam.

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