Lesson Overview
Key Art
Lesson 4 of 4 Creative Illustration
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.
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Use the character and environment designs you created in the previous lessons to come up with a compelling composition for your key art. You can make this look like a movie poster, a widescreen image, or any format you think works best for your illustrated property.
Simple and Clean
Choose whichever key art design you like best, clean up the linework, and begin to ink the outlines. Though Amin does this on paper, you can use any traditional or digital method you prefer for this stage.
Reference Point
It's helpful to create a lighting reference at this stage. Amin chooses to build his in 3D, but you can also take photos of friends and objects with your desired lighting, or use nicely lit photos from the internet when making your piece.
All Shapes and Sizes
Once you have your outlines done, you can start adding shapes into the image. These don't need to correspond to specific values or lighting (which will be covered later), they just need to be different enough to overlay various colors on top of them in the next chapter.
Coming to Life
Using your newly created reference as a guide, add color and lighting to your key art. To start, you can simply apply colors to each one of the value shapes you created earlier. Try to use a compelling color palette to ensure your image really stands out.
A Thing of Beauty
It's time to finish your main key art for the course. In this stage, after taking another look at your image, you'll do any extra steps needed to bring your image to completion. This might involve changing the colors, adding details, or even altering the composition.
New Perspective
Try adapting your main key art into new formats. This is a very useful skill to cultivate for the modern of world of art creation, as your project may be shown in different ways. Your new images could be widescreen, tall, square, or whatever sizes you choose.
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
Environments
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
this lessonKey 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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