concept art research

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.

Dan Luvisi:


Dan Luvisi is a digital concept artist working in the film, game and comic book industry.he also 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. 
I have never looked into concept art much so i never really knew about it, but when i knew what it was i started doing research and came across Dan Luvisi i never knew it was possible to create posters that realistically. Its amazing how much detail that is put into his characters ; i personally am not good with drawing objects and characters realistically, even on photoshop (which i don't know much about) I'm not very good but that's why he inspires me because he is very good at realistic concept art, if i want to be a concept artist in the future i want my style to be similar to his. 


  'Dan Luvisi is known for his extremely versatile style in both illustration approach, as well as categories. Besides concept illustrations, Luvisi has become an expert in Character & Costume Design, Matte Paintings, Storyboards, Poster & Packaging Design and generally welcomes new challenges within his field. Future skills he intends to add to his roster, as time in his hectic schedule will allow for it, include 3D modelling with Z-Brush and Mud Box, Maya, as well as physical sculpture and canvas painting.'   


i got that information above from facebook : http://www.facebook.com/pages/Dan-LuVisi/216363645053067?sk=wall#!/pages/Dan-LuVisi/216363645053067?sk=info 


More examples of his work : 


 
This poster caught my eye mostly because the style of it, the woman looks realistic but everything around her is a cartoon art kind of style which i think is very creative, I've never seen a piece of art like that. Also her face and tattoos look so realistic, its amazing how Dan Lvisi has made it like that. This poster is not similar to mine, my style is all the same but he has two styles and his poster has alot more detail. The cartoon background looks very simple but it probably was hard with the light and shading especially around the clouds.


 
I really like this detailed poster because its so powerful, his facial expression and all the blood really adds effect. He looks angry and like hes shouting whilst being in pain from the fragment of glass that are cutting his face and body. His fists are clenched where he is so angry but i think they don't look quite as realistic as the rest of his body. Also this is one of those posters that makes you want to know whats happening in front of the character because theres a lot of different things that could be happening: there could be an exploding building that has people he cares about in it, an enemy fighting him, there could be some one jumping through a glass window towards him, etc.
 
This is one of my favourite pieces of Dan Luvisi's work, i just think its so creative and realistic. I like the eyes and the mouth the most, its strange how you can only see half of the eye on the left. The mouth only has the tusk like teeth in the four corners with only six teeth actually in the mouth. All the red veins make the mouth look real ans the slim stuff from his teeth was a nice touch. Also the head and pattern is very interesting, it almost shows that it is a fish because its not very obvious without that pattern and the reflection of the sun on the creatures head.


                            
I like this poster because it is very serious because of the blood and the fact that hes being shot at but its got a bit of humour as theres a no guns sign above the characters head that has a bullet hole thought it. Another interesting thing about this poster is all the tiny details that you probably will only noticed if you gave it a second look, for example theres white chalk markings where hes counted in fives as if hes keeping track of the amount of people he's killed, hes got plenty of amunition and the chainsaw has blood dripping from it showing thats hes just used it and in the other hand it looks like something that would scold you, i think that the coloured things coming out of his pocket are skittles which is quite funny because you wouldnt expect someone like that carrieing round sweets( it also adds colour to the picture). Also you can see that there are a few bullets have hit him but he doest seem to be hurt, probably because of the armour he has on ; he has a number and some writing on his helmet so that suggests that he works for someone else and not himself.  I think that there is alot to keep you looking at this poster. 


Akira Toriyama: 


Akira Toriyama is a Japanese manga artist and game artist known mostly for his creation of Dr. Slump in 1980 and Dragon Ball in 1984. I am personally a big fan of Akira Toriyamas work, I like the Dragon ball series and since i started i mainly drawing i only focused on drawing the Dragon ball style and that's all I'm really good at but that's why my game isn't Japanese manga style; because i wanted to prove to my self that i can draw in a different style just as good.  









These are lots of sketches of a character of Dragon ball, there are three series: Dragon ball, Dragon ball z and Dragon ball gt and that's him through the three series getting older. I would really like to start doing this because Akira Toriyama drawn the character from different angles, just his head and done annotation(even know can't tell what hes wrote because Akira has wrote it in Japanese).  























Above is a poster of all the Dragonball z characters at the end of the series. I like this poster because you can see all the characters together, you dont realise how many characters there are untill you see them like this, you rarely see them altogether in the show, i would like to do some thing simaliar to this for my game maybe adding a few new interesting characters to make it more effective.


 

    


So in conclusion even thou Dan Luvisi and Akira Toriyama have completely different styles of concept art i like them both, Akira Toriyama for his style of drawing manga and Dan Luvisi for his realism. After researching these artists I have decided to do a few things for my game, one is to do sketches like Akira Toriyama and draw several sketches of a character  from different angles, two is to do a poster with lots of characters on like Akira Toriyama and third is to draw realistically like Dan Luvisi.