Concept Art: Character Design & Worldbuilding

Overview

“Now that we head into the mark-making stage, a major part of the preparation work is to foresee the art blocks hiding in the distance, caused by the undertaking tasks that we don't actually know how to solve. An honest appraisal of what we do and don't have the tools to solve is a good way of avoiding pitfalls and making sure our mental library is continuously growing. ”

In this video lesson Even Amundsen addresses the topic: Overcoming Creative Blocks, which is part of the Domestika online course: Concept Art: Character Design & Worldbuilding. Explore color, texture, lighting, and layers to create memorable protagonists that tell a story with every detail.

Partial transcription of the video

“ Overcoming Creative Blocks We're hurtling into the mark-making part of this whole course. I want to take a little timeout to try and forestall a big old problem that we all tend to end up with. That's art blocks. Art blocks tend to be what happens when we take on tasks of picture-making that we aren't prepared to fix. We'll talk a bit about knowing yourself, knowing your limitations, and knowing how to fix that through studying. Studying is a challenge in itself. It's not just hard to know what to study, but how to study. One of the general intuitive ways of doing it is, of course, to go ...”

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Course summary for: Concept Art: Character Design & Worldbuilding

• Level: Beginner
• 98% positive reviews (355)
• 26524 students
• 4 units
• 19 lessons (3h 46m)
• 11 downloads

• Category

  Illustration

• Software

  Procreate

• Areas

  Character Design, Concept Art, Digital Drawing, Digital Illustration, Digital Painting, Traditional illustration