365 days of art » concept

Day 63 (steping out of the confort zone)

alancurtis — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 01:38:22 +0000

I haven’t been to risky with my sketches and drawing , and this is the stage to try new, risky things. So I did, and I am loving it! these are my two favorite Environment comps yet!

I was looking around today for inspiration and Feng Zhu is now one of my favorite Concept artist.

Day 60 (I like it!)

alancurtis — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 23:59:07 +0000

The first environment Composition I like. Cool, now I am feeling more comfortable with my environments, I will do a couple more of the Hero’s home, Then move further into the book.

Day 39 ( Hero Concept 01)

alancurtis — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 02:51:10 +0000

first hero concept.

Day 37 (Chained Girl)

alancurtis — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 01:33:27 +0000

The next step in the Skillful Huntsman is your concepts. Today I just wanted to touch up on Digital painting skills. So I took my sketch I did of Royo’s Painting a on Day 31 and painted it.

Day 33 (Hero Silhouettes)

alancurtis — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 01:15:29 +0000

I tried Felix’s style with the black and white, I was using most my time on the little details that didn’t really matter. I moved over to Mike’s Silhouette thumbs and found this study very effective. At first it felt not so productive, but by the second row of silhouettes you start to see the character come out. Your drawings become more loose, and comfortable to try new things making more dynamic character silhouettes.

Day 32 ( Silhouettes )

alancurtis — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 01:24:57 +0000

The Book starts with the story of the Skillful Huntsman, and from this story they do a breakdown of what they will need to concept out: Characters, environments, vehicles, weapons, and so on. This is how they created the chapters in this book. The First chapter is Designing the main character The Huntsman. They start with thumbnail silhouettes and progress from there. They say how thumbnails are a good way of to get the basic, and less creative ideas out of the way.

The breakdown of my story took some of my time today, so I started to warm up on my silhouettes, and tomorrow really crank it!

so here are my practice silhouettes.

One month down, Eleven more to go!