Sarah Childs in an artist, specialising in fantasy art work and designing for video games. She started as a young person designing characters, which came from her own love of gaming. In this interview, Sarah answers questions posed by school pupils about how she started out designing characters for video games, and where her inspiration comes from.
Sarah completed her art studies at CGVerse for Stylised Character Concept Design with David Ko and debuted her first work The Chronicles of Gyzra trilogy at MCM London Comic Con, an action adventure manga series that took her 10 years to complete. Most recently Sarah worked on the Lux Primora project as Art Director, Character Concept Artist and 2D Game Artist.
In this interview Sarah takes us through the process of designing a gaming character from scratch, including character development and how she picks colours and other design elements. She also advises on how to select the right digital kit for anyone wanting to start making digital art.