Where can an industry professional learn concept art?

Tai

Hi all, I've been an environment artist / world builder professionally for a couple years now. Recently, I feel like I rely too much on real life reference, or finding myself wasting too much time messing around in 3D space not knowing what to do. So I would like to learn how to do some concept art so I can figure out how to design things on paper better before I move on to the 3D space (or do some matte painting). Being in the Bay area in California, where can I go to take classes, workshop, or training? How about online resources, is there a course (maybe on gnomon workshop) that you would recommend? any suggestions are welcome!

Thanks!

lorenzo_di_pietro

Scott Robertson is a master when it comes to design hard surface stuff. Check out his YouTube channel. He wrote two great books (this one, and this one). On Gnomon you can find also some old tutorials he did but, as far as I know, Gnomon has recently adopted a subscription system only... For environment stuff, I like also James Paick and, in particular, this product he's selling on Gumroad. Bear in mind that concept art is a huge topic, I'm only an enthusiast, not a professional.

Snowfly

Feng Zhu's videos are great:
https://www.youtube.com/user/FZDSCHOOL/videos

Shyralon

Maciej Kuciara has an excellent gumroad:
https://gumroad.com/maciejkuciara

Steppenwolf

http://www.ctrlpaint.com/ is a good starting point if you're an absolute beginner in digital drawing/painting.

gfelton

Shyralon said:

Maciej Kuciara has an excellent gumroad:
https://gumroad.com/maciejkuciara

I'm somewhat confused, I was following Kuciara a bit for a few years and I thought he specialized in 3d work, had no clue he had so much skill as an illustrator. Showtime is absolutely insane!

Tai

thanks guys! I'll take a look!