Concept Art Crash Course (Тар – Концепт арт – Russian, Eng sub)

You will learn to create characters, objects, and locations for computer or tabletop games, comics, or animations. The instructor will teach you how to tell a story through the elements of costumes, the features of architecture, and the character of everyday objects.

You will learn the basics of working with lines: you will master their expressive qualities and be able to use them to create detailed and richly textured illustrations. You will also learn about the nuances of choosing materials and tools for line art.

Overall, the intensive consists of 6 hours of practice and seven lectures. The instructor will explain creating a cohesive, logical, and readable world for comics, animations, tabletop games, and more. Throughout the learning process, you will also complete homework assignments and receive feedback from the instructor. The course result will be a small concept project on a topic of your choice, consisting of drawings of characters, objects, and locations.

What you will learn:

• How to visualize a world
• What visual code is
• Specifics of working as a concept artist
• Techniques for conveying depth in space
• How to tell a character’s story through their costume
• Character design
• How to make a design work
• Physics and plasticity of movement.

Course Program:

Mythmaking: A Comprehensive Approach to Creating Concept Art

• What concept ars and where it is applied
• Steps and plan for developing a concept

Mythology, science, chronotopic

• chronotopic is and why it should be determined
• Direct correlation chronotopic, storytelling, and product visualization
• Steps for developing a world

Main rule and visual code

• Principles upon which the world operates within the project
• Visual embodiment of the main rule

Environment

• Physical-geographic zones and design
• Scene layers, location recognizability, and atmosphere conformity
• Some techniques for drawing space

Concept: Flora and Fauna

• Plants: working with references, stylization
• Living creatures: uniformity, chimerization
• Intelligent creatures: color schemes, simple forms
• Features of drawing anatomy and plasticity
• External differences: dependence on habitat, other conditions
• Character recognizability: body, face, articulation, poses.