My Journey To Concept Art !
polycounter lvl 10
hello polycount !
here i will post my progress to be a good concept artist
any crits that will hep me to get better , welcome
here is stuff i did so far :
here i will post my progress to be a good concept artist
any crits that will hep me to get better , welcome
here is stuff i did so far :
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rock concept art !
Design thumbnails for spaceships !
You might like this site:
http://www.quickposes.com/pages/challenges
back to this . drawing a fan-art ..
3 Things,
1st go back to traditional medium. I know you had to get CS and a wacom but those are serious crutches. Our entire first term is done traditionally with just g-tech pens and printer paper. I can't tell you the process we learned from becuase we signed a contract but I can tell you that you will get the exact same thing if you pick up Scott Robertson's books on how to draw. Perspective and Draw Through are king, both of which your stuff is lacking.
[ame="http://www.amazon.com/How-Draw-sketching-environments-imagination/dp/1933492732/ref=la_B0034O5O32_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1408860506&sr=1-1"]How to Draw: drawing and sketching objects and environments from your imagination: Scott Robertson, Thomas Bertling: 9781933492735: Amazon.com: Books[/ame]
2nd Buy a sketchbook. Okay, I was a 3d artist before coming here and the hardest thing to teach myself was how to doodle. I didn't like drawing that much at all. Man that was a big hurdle to over come. You have to draw everything. In your sketchbook fill it up with little studies of materials or shapes or anything but just fill it up. You need around 2000 hours of just sketching a specific thing before it becomes built in and you can do it whenever. Check out this dudes sketches if you want to see what I mean https://www.facebook.com/rene.aigner.77/about
3rd USE REFERENCE. So this is the biggest tip I can give anyone. Find something that looks bad ass and just draw it. COPY EVERY FUCKING THING PERFECTLY. Draw it again but look at it differently. Concept art is probably 95% what references you have in your folder and 5% personal flare. I really cannot stress this enough. A year ago I just copied everything into my reference folder that I found from google. Would google boots, bam first 5 boots that looked alright went in. Over time you start becoming more selective until what you like is extremely refined and your art will become way better because of it. If you need more convincing even the great Moebius draws over other peoples stuff. Concept art does not care about the pipeline you use, just about the end result. DO NOT COPY OTHER ART THOUGH. http://www.raggedclaws.com/home/2012/03/10/jean-moebius-giraud-on-drawing-from-the-work-of-other-artists-from-life-and-from-photos/
How you get into concept art can actually be very cheap, pen/paper is all that is required I think. That being said prepare yourself for 10,000 hours of drawing stuff that you will fucking hate (All my drawings are garbage) until you finally get to a few pieces that you won't be too embarrassed to show to the world.
Keep pushing man.
How long do you spend on these, i sometimes get lost and just look blankly at the screen. Thinking of what im gonna do and never do it
sketching ideas that make no sense
a knight concept art
NEED CRITS , thanks
Keep on going
1 hour study
reminds me of eminem
from head ( weird )
Personal
personal
and a perspective study , i should focus more on perspective
a perspective study .
feel free to comment or post crits