The Varg Initiative (final year project)

This is a collection of the artwork from my final year project which follows three bounty hunters through a war-torn universe as they try to avoid the central government. The project draws from a variety of games and films including Warhammer, Anthem and Halo while also taking inspiration from historic periods such as The Roman Empire and The Vikings.

The focus with this project was to start to flesh out the world and characters with key art and landscapes. I tried to push myself to do more narrative pieces with this project, as I usually do more environmental pieces with very little narrative drive. This really helped me get more comfortable with characters and I feel a lot more confident in using them in art, but I am still primarily an environment artist.

This is only a small selection of the work I did for this project though and should you want to view more of my work or other projects I’ve developed please visit https://www.artstation.com/jamesmaw

There’s also a small collection of artwork from another project I was developing alongside “The Varg Initiative” towards the bottom of the page.