Blog 01: Introduction

hey everyone, i've been here a couple weeks but i haven't made any blogs yet and i feel like my first one should probably be a little intro/about me,,

first things first, my name is Evie, i'm 25 and from Canada. i'm currently in my final year of college for game development, the art side of it! i do both 2D and 3D art. i mostly enjoy doing character designs, sculpts, and portraits. my style is somewhat painterly when it comes to my 2D art (i hate doing line art!). for 3D i like doing fairly stylized art, similar to what Valve is doing with their Deadlock character models (i love Deadlock)!

obviously since i'm in game dev, i love video games! i usually play open world or isometric RPGs and metroidvanias. i also enjoy survival games and cozy life sims. some of my favorites are Skyrim, Hollow Knight/Silksong, Blasphemous 1, BG3, Pillars of Eternity, Enshrouded, and Fields of Mistria!

Deadlock is an outlier but i love it. i usually don't play shooters, mobas or competitive games, but Deadlock kinda opened my mind to them. i main Vindicta and Lady Geist and i want to learn Nurse Harrow (i love playing scary women apparently).

i'm currently playing Fields of Mistria and romancing March lol :)

i also really enjoy writing, world building, and Dungeons & Dragons, which ties in with my character art stuff. i have a whole world, plot, and cast of characters i'm working on that i hope to some day turn into a CRPG!

i haven't played d&d as much as i'd liked to have, but i love like everything fantasy and making d&d characters. i also love Critical Role so if anyone else has any cool d&d podcasts i should check out then let me know!

as for movies and tv shows, i really enjoy fantasy (go figure), and horror, though it's very hard for me to actually be scared by a horror movie, though my favorite is probably The Ritual (2017). and of course i have to love Lord of the Rings (books and movies), and i've always been a Sam girl <3

Avatar the Last Airbender (and Legend of Korra/Seven Havens after) are probably my favorites shows ever and i am always in the mood for a rewatch

okay music. here we go. i mostly listen to doom/prog/symphonic metal, dark/indie folk, Celtic and medieval music, some video games soundtracks, and sometimes theatrical/cabaret stuff. some of my favorites bands/artists are Candlemass, A7X, Opeth, Avantasia, Nightwish, Loreena McKennitt, The Amazing Devil, and Eleisha Eagle.

so here's some songs i've really been liking at the moment:

so there we go, that's me. i'm probably gonna post an art dump at some point, life stuff maybe, and i get weird vivid long dreams so i might blog about those at some point too!