Seeking Concept Art Tutorials

CodeferBlue

Hey everybody, I'm kind of having trouble finding concept art creation tutorials. Currently, I'm not looking for digital concept tutorials, traditional pencil paper/colour type of stuff.

It's important that I can be able to draw concept and illustrate my ideas on paper because it will contribute to my 3D work. I'm striving to be a good 3D environment artist and so I really need to learn good techiniques (as many techniques as I can) for drawing concepts of props and aspects of environments.

If anybody can provide me with resources and learning material (e.g videos and courses) for learning concept art, that would be awesome. I haven't even touched concept yet, so I need to start from the very beggining. It would also be interesting to learn how some of you learned concept.

Thanks!

Greg Westphal

Gotta check out Gnomon man.  There are the videos from Syd Mead and Feng where they both use traditional mediums . Early gnomon dvds can be found in the subscription too.

RobeOmega

http://www.ctrlpaint.com/library/

This website has a ton of free, short and informative tutorials about a large number of subjects within drawing such as traditional drawing, moving and using digital tools, theory and other such related material. It does have a small amount of paid tutorials in the store but the amount of free content easily outweighs the paid content.

CodeferBlue

Yeah I've heard Gnomon is great for this stuff. I'll check it out then. Thanks.

CodeferBlue

Wow thanks a ton. That's gonna be really helpful.  

pangaea

http://drawabox.com/ and the Scott Robertson how to draw book. 

miguelnarayan

Having watched Scott Robertson, Feng Zhu Gnomon DVDs and being a 3D Modeler for some years myself, I have to say that Feng Zhu puts it very simply done on how to sketch environments. Scott Robertson is a more in depth perspective drawing for detailing that you don't see often on environments and tend to cheat, such as mirroring symmetry on a vehicle. I tend to find Scott Robertson and all Gnomon training a bit hard and too much information at once, I had to go get beginner aimed training first to then come back to Scott Robertson and be like ... ''ooooooh, now I get this DVD...'', as all Gnomon stuff is great, but is more aimed towards individuals that already know stuff and are looking to improve their craft with their training.
I've done drawabox and found it useful for character propotion breakdown.

My recommendation is get Feng Zhu environment sketching DVDs from Gnomon, those are easy to follow, he also has a Design Cinema on youtube, haven't checked anything from there myself, but they are free. So if you don't want to spend money first, I'd recommend go there first.

CodeferBlue

Thanks a lot, I'll check it out!

CodeferBlue

Thanks, looks promising, I'll take a look.