Environments
Lesson 3 of 4 Creative Illustration
In this lesson, you will come up with an interesting environment for your character to live in. Using all the concepting methods you learned eariler, you will thumbnail, define and iterate on your scene. At the end of this lesson, you'll have a finished piece of art showing off your world.
Nature or Nurture
Gather references for your environment. It's highly recommended that you find these yourself. You could go outside and take photos for nature inspiration, or look through your old vacation photos for buildings. You can also use images from the internet if you need.
Enter the Multiverse
Create several quick thumbnails for your environment. Try entirely different scenes, as well as different angles of the same scene. You never know what might spark your inspiration, so just let your imagination run wild.
Wonderful World of Color
Choose the environment thumbnail you like best and turn it into a full color painting. For extra credit, play with LUTs and color balance to create alternate versions of your image.
Student Homework
Lesson 1
Concepting
In this lesson you'll come up with the characters, world and story that you'll use throughout the rest of the course. Amin will take you through a few exercises to decide on a genre and logline, before diving into references and thumbnail sketching. Don't be afraid to experiment here- you never know what might inspire you!
- 57 minutesTotal Lesson Duration
- 15 VideosVideo Lectures in this Lesson
- Project FilesDownloadable Project Files
Guidance
Introduction
Conceptualization
References
Thumbnailing
Lesson 2
Characters
In this lesson, you'll come up with the characters in your story. After doing some rough sketching, you'll create a full color portrait of your hero. Amin will cover several important concepts about color and lighting in this lesson, along with some useful tips for speeding up your art creation. At the end of this lesson, you'll have a finished piece of character art.
- 1 hour 23 minutesTotal Lesson Duration
- 18 VideosVideo Lectures in this Lesson
- Project FilesDownloadable Project Files
Guidance
Introduction
Rough Sketching
Hero Pose
Creating Shapes
Color
Conclusion
Lesson 3
this lessonEnvironments
In this lesson, you will come up with an interesting environment for your character to live in. Using all the concepting methods you learned eariler, you will thumbnail, define and iterate on your scene. At the end of this lesson, you'll have a finished piece of art showing off your world.
- 55 minutesTotal Lesson Duration
- 9 VideosVideo Lectures in this Lesson
- Project FilesDownloadable Project Files
Guidance
Introduction
Reference Gathering
Rough Sketching
Color Painting
Conclusion
Lesson 4
Key Art
This lesson will collect everything you've learned so far, by combining the character and environment designs from the previous two lessons into a single hero illustration. You'll also adapt your finished key art into one or more alternate versions, for display in different kinds of media. At the end of this lesson, you'll have multiple portfolio pieces showing off your new illustrated property.
- 1 hour 16 minutesTotal Lesson Duration
- 19 VideosVideo Lectures in this Lesson
- Project FilesDownloadable Project Files
Guidance
Introduction
Poster Line Art
Basic Value
3D Reference
Final Poster
Alternate Key Art
Conclusion
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