Uk based artist. Aj Battle is a graphic designer and illustrator
Graduating from the university of Cumbria school of fine art with a masters in fine art in 2016.
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Art work
Work for my personal practice. Artworks focused around questions of modernity, death and nature
Latest blog post
Project #32 Wildflower tattoo
A client recently asked for a tattoo design. These are always very personal pieces so it’s important to expect to do a lot of iterations, even the most simple design in this case a fern and some wildflowers will require good and continuous communication with a client. I began this process by calling them and…
Project #31 Dog Portrait comission
During the Christmas period it’s much more likely to get these more sentimental commissions, in this case a portrait of a dog. This is the final result, underneath is the process I used documented. I got sent this photo and asked to use it to create a portrait for a clients brother. We settled on…
Project #30 Creative business plan – An online shop part 1
This is a record on how I created an etsy shop setup with automatic printing, the first stage in selling my art
Project #29 The Hole
I recently got a new brief from a previous collector of my work. They were after something with wildflowers. Wildflowers are one of those subjects that are already over saturated in traditional art therefore if I was going to create this artwork I would have to make sure it was a piece that was treading…
Project #28 AstroBotany
This is a breakdown of the project AstroBotany I recently took part in the 10:10 games WIGjam. This was a project undertaken by myself and 3 others. The theme being about positive representation of women and LGBTIQA+ Here are a list of the different sections that I worked on: Research Organisation and planning UI Coding…
13 Reasons I don’t like midjourney
Florida man thinks if he rips off enough artists its legal. Midjourney is a joke here are 10 reasons why I hate it: #1 Artists “Steal” to learn but this is just stealing; When an artist looks at another artists work, they study what the artist did and how to apply it to their own…
Project #27 Death is only the beginning
I recently took part in the GameDev.tv 2022 Game Jam! This was a collaborative project between myself and a team of 8 others. Our theme was Death is only the beginning. Here are a list of the different sections that I worked on: Research Organisation and planning UI and coding Dialogue and Yarn Spinner Audio…
Project #26 Return to the garden
This describes how I completed work for this project. While recently working on a unity course I was able to chose a commercial project to work on. We got to pick our commercial projects from a list of potential projects, reading through these briefs I found the brief for this project, return to the garden…
How to run a project
Recently I took part on a unity course. On this course I worked on a number of projects which allowed me to learn some very important lessons. One of most interesting was on how to actually work on an manage projects with other people of by myself. In this post I will outline a frame…
An exercise on considering legacy
Legacy is an important idea as it takes us beyond the everyday. It makes us think about goals something to aim for in the future. When I look at my to do list I have life goals that I’m working towards. Have a job I enjoy Live healthily Have a large group of friends Have…
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