CA seminar

Over the last two weeks me and some other students at my school took a conceptart seminar, wich explained and traversed the process of conceiving a concept, all the way through to delivering a final design. I figured it would be nice to show the process in this thread.

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The assignment was the following:
Create three final pieces; a male and female character, and an envoiroment design.
The designs are for a fictional MMORPG, of wich the visual style, theme and timeperiod are free to choose.
However, we had to design one of the following classes:
+ Artist
+ Hermit
+ Gentleman/Lady
+ Street-Punk

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I chose to work on the hermit.
The first assignment we got was to go out and find a lot of reference images of envoiroments, cultures, anything enspiering and to save all those images in neatly organised folders. From those images we would then craft a moodboard, attempting to get a certain vibe across.

+ Click here to vieuw the moodboard.

Once a general line was set we set out to create thumbnails of as many variations and characters, envoiroments we could come up with. Completely drain yourself, and then draw some more, exploring the chosen direction and looking for interesting visual and conceptual aspects to use. Once you've got a couple of thumbnails that stand out, you start scetching more and more in that direction to see if it is a meaningfull concept.

+ Click here to vieuw the initial thumbnails, drawn with filt pen on paper.
+ Click here to vieuw the second iteration of envoiroment thumbnails, digital in photoshop.
+ Click here to vieuw the second iteration of character thumbnails, digital in photoshop.

After having sharpened the concept and defined the design, we set out to create the final pieces. All where made in photoshop, doing a black and white tone painting first and then later adding the color in. I'm not that advanced with color just yet, and this technique provides me with a better lighting sheme.

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ENVOIROMENT FINAL PIECE:



CHARACTERS FINAL PIECES:

Very cool! I really like the final results.

The only criticism I have is that the females legs are a little thing, especially if she usually caries a large shell. Otherwise great job.

I always wondered how they came up with such interesting concept drawings...

It's really awesome how you can get your design process on paper like that. I usually can't start scribbling until I have an idea in my head of what I want to do.

Great end result there, but I think in your inspirations you forgot to mention TMNT. :)

Same here, lol. The male version really reminds me of the Diablo III witch doctor, pose and all.

Incredibly awesome, sir. The background has a nice, peaceful vibe, and the characters are really well done, they have kind of an egypcian/"african"/maya look (I know Egypt is part of Africa, I meant they look like part of a tribe or anything like that), the female legs are a bit too slim, but that can be just your way of drawing them, and that does not matter at all unless you were aiming for something ultra realistic. The color is also superb, I specially dig the way you painted the sea.
Oh, the thumbnails were really helpful, helped my understanding of how to conceptualize something.
Overall, great work, and thank you for sharing a bit of what you've learned.

Reminds me of Master Roshi...

Cool ideas, the whales and all, very original

Would have preferred the shirt on female, the shirt looked pretty cool, added alot to the character, shirt off, she just looks.. well.. naked...


They remind me of the Skull Island tribes

WITH A PHOTOGRAPH LOLOOL... Yub, its a texture, i didnt entirely paint all of that that way... hehe, sneaky right?

Anyway everyone thanks for the comments, i'll take the time to adress every one of you later, i guess.

Ow wow erwt, your skill jumped tenfold these past few months.

Indeed, sneaky... well, it looks good anyway =P