Hi, I’m Atman
My Story
I have been drawn to art ever since I was a toddler; after all I was surrounded by it.
Currently studying video game art, I would say the path towards design and art was laid out before me.
With my sister being a NIFT Alumna, I was fortunate to see the process behind the final design. I saw the meticulous planning and conceptualisation that went into every single project, the refinement and revisions before the final iteration; watching it all come together like a perfectly put together jigsaw-puzzle.
My interest has always leaned towards fantasy worlds and mystical creatures.
Video games were the perfect culmination of this for me; bringing together art, world building, characters and storylines.
While I had already begun drawing characters and mentally developing storylines for them, a formalised course for video game art allowed me to delve deeper, where I could explore how the visuals would interact with each other within the game and the player.
My Game art and design journey
Over the course of the last two years I have explored different kinds of games; both as a design student and a player.
As a video game fanatic, I’m obsessed with the fine details imprinted into the art work. It was only when I started to design a game, I realised and studied the multi-layered process and research needed to design the art work that makes a game ravishingly satisfying.
It first began with backgrounds, and then characters along with the various obstacles that they interact with. As the games became more detailed, I also learnt how to create art and elements in the game in a way that everything fits together, creating a seamless gaming experience.
Water Dragon
An interpretation of a dragon that resides in the depths of a lake, guarding his hoard and ruins. More dragons here.
Lord Borion
An original character. To see more, click here.
I love creating and drawing fantasy characters and their background stories drawing inspiration from real life animals and objects, and blending them into a seamless tapestry of my imaginary world.
I have been making art for as long as I can remember.
I would say my art journey began when I was three years old, with scribbling various kinds of monsters and animals using crayons and oil pastels in my school sketchbook. I went on to try to steal my sister’s paints and make a mess of all the paper in front of me but having a lot of fun with it. This slowly grew into having a set of properly curated art supplies - pens, colour pencils, different micron pens and sketch pens along with a dedicated set of sketchbooks, and now I have begun exploring the world of digital art too.
After being on the lookout for good dragon themed graphic tees for the longest, a moment in 2023 brought along an opportunity to work on a set of three prints for some T-shirts.