Concept Artist graduate - advice, critique, etc welcome

Elliejcooper

Hello!

I am Ellie, I am 20 years old and recently graduated from university (3D Games Art), and I am currently building up my portfolio before I apply to studios.

A lot of the time I am not sure what else I need, or rather just to keep going and improve the quality. I have a couple of matte paintings WIP's so I am trying to move into more triple AAA workflows, as well as beginning to use 3D to paint over.

I have been told to specialise in character concepts, but I do enjoy doing environments. My dream studio to work for is Ubisoft (I am a long way off I know, but a girl can dream!). 

Any critique, or help, etc would be great! I am open to tutorials as well, or anything which could help. All advice welcome. 

https://www.artstation.com/elliejcooper

lotet

Id say your biggest thing to work on is focus and specificity. If you wanna work at Ubisoft, you need to tailor your portfolio to look like the stuff you wanna do there and that alone.

DmitryMorozov

In the main, all of your characters (especially the people in suits, not monsters) have similar problems in two fundamentals aspects for concept-art:

1) Silhouette, the relations between shapes and masses inside the object.

As an abstract set of shapes, the characters don't look good.

2) Communicative component of the concept. The elements on the character don't clearly enough express his essence.

I tried to show what exactly the problems are in these aspects by the example of one character:

1) Silhouette, the relations between shapes and masses inside the object.

2) Communicative component of the concept.

In general, these are very voluminous and difficult to understand topics, so here are a few tutorials about them:

Essentionals about shapes, silhouettes, relations between masses in concept-art:

1) Thumb War by Paul Richards (https://www.autodestruct.com/thumbwar.htm)

2) Attention to relations between Details\Eye rest. It's very important aspect!

Lection about this:

http://www.neilblevins.com/cg_education/primary_secondary_and_tertiary_shapes/primary_secondary_and_tertiary_shapes.htm

(Including video presentation by Gleb Alexandrov)

Communication story, essence of concept:

1) Elements of design by Mike Franchina (https://www.artstation.com/artwork/YVJ6Y)

2) Making of about Adam (https://blogs.unity3d.com/ru/2016/07/07/adam-production-design-for-the-real-time-short-film/)

Basic knowledge about creating character design:

1) Pluralsight - Game Character Concept Design Fundamentals

Hope it help