What is concept art?
Concept art is an illustration where the purpose is to design a visual representation from the clients ideas,for games,animation,films,comic books etc.When the concept artists have design'd lots of different characters,planets,buildings,objects etc they and the team choose final designs which are then perfected using photoshop and sent to the 3D animaters.
Where did concept art originate from?
I think that concept art originated from car designs and engins etc,and old animation programs from the early 1990's.
Types of concept art
I have been reasearching concept art and all the different styles of it:
Realistic
Science fiction
Fantasy
Steam punk
Abstract
2D&3D etc
I have always liked Science fiction and Fantasy,so i thought i would reasearch some of the other styles and see what i think of them.I seemed to like Reaistic and 2D&3D the most.
Below is a piece of 2D art that i found funny.
I like this picture because the astronaut is unaware of the mother or father of the baby alien hes about to sqaush.You can see the mother ships in the background which i dont think looks very good because of the lack of detail put into them.I like the fact that the astronaut has the american flag in his hand the while the alien also has a flag of his own.
The link to this website is: http://forums.cgsociety.org/showthread.php?f=137&t=800084
The picture below is fantasy which is my faviroute type of art.
I like this picture because its amazingly detailed,the fire,ashes and rocks personally catch my eye.
The only thing i think lacked is the tree,theres not as much detail as everything else i think the artist was just lazy at that point.
Didgital artists and graphic designers etc use "thumb nail sketches".Thumbnail sketches are small sketches on a piece of paper,they are more or less doodles but with a lot more detail.
Concept artists use graphic tablets,graphic taplets our like normal tablets but you can hand draw on them and trace pictures useing an attached stylus. when the drawing or tracing is finished the quality looks amazing.
Matte painting is to paint a representation of a landscape used mainly in movies.
This is mainly because it would be basicaly impossible and be to expensive to build.
Examples of artists:
I have been looking at a concept artist named Dan Lu Visi,who does Realistic concept art.
From what i have seen of his work he seems to enjoy drawing characters from movies,but also likes creating his own characters.He has also worked on Batman and Superman with DC comics.
