Concept Artist Techniques and understanding
Borislav Mitkov
Delicate strokes and in depth under standing of light and tone. Intelligent use of custom brushes. understanding of light, using areas in shadow to advantage and deliberately making them darker so the rest of the piece pops.
Eduardo Pena
Quick concepting is a skill required by everyone. The ability to create convincing concepts quickly is invaluable because it allows you to experiment with the subject matter in many different ways before settling on a an idea to take further. There a many ways to make a piece of work that's subject is simply rendered and strong yet that looks unfinished into a more powerful piece by using simply atmospherics. The example above shows some of these, strong light source, rain, dust, for-ground clutter. All of these things create atmosphere and atmosphere can create a strong concept.
Alex Raspad
Colour theory helps to create the mood of a piece. The correct application of colour to enhance work, this example above shows a very strong example to simple colour application over a grey sketch useing blending modes. The use of blending modes to apply colour whether it be just to add hues or to apply light, is a very quick and effective way to work and creates quick results.
Piotr Jablonski aka Niconim
Perspective, structure and composition is the base of a painting if these elements are not correct in the first instance of the work then you shouldn't proceed until they are. The image needs to remained balance in terms of both colour and form.
Kaijia Rudkiewicz
From thumb nailing characters the next step is to realise areas of the design to create a convincing form for the viewer to understand. Above would of started out as a simple black silhouette then grey tones applied on top and only rendered properly in areas that require the detail to make sense.
Raveneau Pierre
These light rendered thumbnails, black silhouettes with lighting information applied take thumb nailing further in a different way, exploring the application of light to a form. Certain lighting can create different moods for a character not depending on colour.
Own Concept Art
Two colour variants of a futuristic warriors. Application of atmospherics and colour hue to explore subtly different moods. Left being he is an explorer venturing into the unknown. Right being survival, Survival of a long fight and its over, using a warmer shade of green it gives the illusion of a softer mood.
Application of colour on to a black and white silhouette using colour modes in Photoshop to get the desired effect. Modes used are colour, linear dodge and soft light. Dirt at base of character created by use of custom brushes.
Base sketch underneath, then paint on top. Going through roughly applieing colour and slowly building detail as i go. Subtle gradients of colour applied and blending modes with it. These gradients and washes of new colour create to varied coloured effect that follows the lighting.
