Brief
To build a brief for myself to work from for my project I'm going to create a questionnaire asking people what they like to see in a fantasy game like Elvish Ruins, Huge Castles, Towns set in massive trees etc. Then another question asking what style of buildings, so like European, Asian, Middle Eastern that sort of thing. After that ill then ask about the setting, is it set in a forest? mountains? floating mountains? underwater? and then continue on to things like time of day. Once I've collected all of the results I'll then have a brief on what to base my concept on.
Jorge Jacinto (Blinck)
Jorge works as a freelance concept artist living in Portugal He's been my favourite landscape concept artist now for some time. The reason I like his work so much is because it so heavily fantasy with a nice gentle and peaceful touch to it.
I really like his techniques used in his paintings and the way he paints his rocks and trees, he also posted the brush pack he uses on one of his videos which is free to download. The videos on his youtube channel consist of his work in progress of his paintings. Here you can see all of his techniques and how he does things and comes over problems he encounters. some of his techniques include using the lasso tool to get a nice fine edge on his paintings.
Tyler Edlin
Tyler specializes in enviroment art creating vast worlds for video games. He is a freelance concept artist residing in the boston area.
Tyler also has a youtube account where he does lengthy tutorials on some of his artwork explaining techniques and the processes he uses. The main reason I've chosen work from Tyler was because I really like his cartoony fantasy style and some of the really interesting and inspiring techniques he uses in some of his paintings.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_MHJ1LvPQ7s
I really like the cartoony look to this image and all of tylers image. Even though its cartoony it has a realistic feel and look to it. Things like the light coming through the trees and hitting the ground give it a realistic feel to the image.
He also explains how he does his vegetation and trees, also how he adds details to things. He uses a lot of the election tool so that he can get a nice fine edge to things. All of the techniques tyler explains I'm trying to incorporate into my paintings and my project.
I really like the scale and distance this image pulls off with the castle. Placing the people in the image gives it a much greater scale making it more realistic. It has a really dull and gritty feel to it as well which works really nicely with the time period.
I really like the lighting and colour in this image. I like the way he even included shadows from the clouds and water vapour from the massive waterfalls. He creates a great scale of distance in this image by give the castle a more blue tone to it which creates atmosphere to make it seem further away. Tyler explained to do this you had to create a new layer and place a light blue gradient over from top to bottom. Then lower the opacity and slightly rub out the objects as they get closer. You could also use a layer mask to do this. But I think this is a really nice technique which I never knew of until watching his tutorial.
He also placed his brush pack on his website which is free to download so you can use all of the same brushes as he does. I currently use his brush pack along with Blincks one.
Here is a before and after image of some of his paintings so that you can see a work in progress.
Kalen Chock
Kalen Chock works for Industrial Light and Magic as a concept artist and also as an instructor at the Art Institution of California. He's also taken part in several freelance matte paintings.
Kalen also has a blog which he updates very often with pieces of his work, posts, and live streams of his work so other people can see how he works and learn his techniques and processes.
http://kalenart.blogspot.co.uk/
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