Draw from Imagination : Environments Techniques Concept Art
What You'll Learn : how to draw cool environments from imagination that could be use for game development, animation, books, cards, virtual reality or any projects that require art direction.
I have been using methods like these for the last 9 years of my career and they helped me multiple times to tackle different challenging projects. From medieval, realistic themes to scifi, cybeprunk compositions.
Learn how to pitch an idea for a client from scratch
Learn how to sketch your ideas with different techniques
By the end of this Class: you will acquire valuable techniques for sketching your own ideas but also you will end up with a black and white finish composition.
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For your assignment you can trace 5 images that you like ( can be landscapes, architecture, or both ), 5 circles compositions, 5 sketches on top of your previous circles sketches, 1 sketch on top of a real photo using the perspective to create your own idea ( can be medieval, scifi, realistic, cybeprunk, cute cartoon, anything you want) and lastly 1 finished black and white composition using the techniques showed in the lesson.
What you’ll need for this class: Photoshop or any software you for drawing, the methods can be applied even if you don't use Photoshop
What we'll Do:
- Learn about different types of compositions
- Tracing images to learn about detailed elements into simple shapes
- Define shapes using image references
- Steal perspective from real photo
- Black and white polished concept art
Projects files : JPGs showed in the lessons, brushes you can download from the internet for free, black and white compositions PSD with layers and image references.
Connect with Pedro in Artstation (portfolio), Instagram (traditional Art), Youtube (speedpaints), DeviantArt ( all my works, even the ugly old ones )
Meet the instructor Pedro De Elizalde, I am an Environment Concept Artist/3d with 9 years of experience in a wide variety of projects in games, animation and books. Including projects like theme parks in Thailand (Fantasea), Mobile games for companies like Moonton, Cyberpunk games, scifi, interior designs for bars, nfts, virtual reality projects,childrens book illustrations, card illustrations and many more. I also like to keep increasing my skills on traditional art with oils or pen.