Concept Artwork

This section of my blog is going to hold a compilation of my concept artwork that I have done throughout the two years that I will be spending in college. It will showcase all my designs and I will explain each one and point out each segment and explain what was the hardest part of such to accomplish.

Trian the Elven Druid

 

Quite a charactristic name that I have given to this particular character. There is no story behind this concept, so I will just explain how I did it. Creating the general overview and effect of this selected piece was done by trial and error. I spent one hour on this character and alot of changes took place. Even a gender change! I particularly like the hair on this concept and the neck outlines itself rather better than I first thought it would. 

Some parts of this drawing when wrong, such as the wonky left eye and the fact his right eye seems to be shut. Intially that eye was open and feeling the breeze, but I miscalculated the eye level and it looked far to bad to leave it open. A quick bit of DIY patch up and it seem to come out well. 

To get the kind of cell shading effect I did, I simply added a cutout filter in photoshop to get the desired effect. The cutout filter is something that I highly reccomend using as it proves to create a more raw concept look and feel to the image. 

Tools: Adobe Photoshop CS3, Graphics Tablet, Patients.