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I love how freaking much this guy know. He sits for 40 minutes, talking, talking, talking and talking about everything and it feels like most of it is usable tips. Thank you so much for taking this time, Feng!
Feng, Thank you so much for making these videos in your schedule. You are helping many people and for free. Your professionalism and your work speaks for itself, nothing I can say here can justify. Peace
China Miéville is the name of the author. The book is Perdido Street Station. Its a great piece of literary work full of imaginative concepts and exotic creatures. Certainly a great read, especially if you're into a magic/steampunk mixture (runepunk?).
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Feng, I just wanted to take some time to thank you for uploading these videos. I learned more from you and other great youtubers than I did in Art School I hope you know that. Also I'm glad you are on youtube and hope you continue with it for a long time. Since I don't have the luxury to go to Singapore to go to you school I just want to thank you again for the fantastic videos.
from watching all of his videos, hes gonna say that its never too late. he even gave an example of one person who started at his 40s i think? but Feng says its alot of work and practice. and in my personal point of view i think its never too late. just go to an art school and practive every day. not just fantasy stuff but foundation and the reason behind each object and design u put into it.
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@ColdDegree0 - It is done using a mask, that way you paint on the canvas but all the areas in black are masked out keeping the edges solid. if he did a brush stroke straight down the canvas it would appear in all three unmasked areas but not in the black area.
This is great. I got a work I need to hand in to apply for an Architecture line in a uni. It's designing a bug city and I found this video and the book very inspirational. Thank you!
@dataphreak It is actually a single canvas, he just puts a layer with black frames for each picture at the top of it all. But you could also have three different files open t the same time in different windows or tabes inside Photoshop.
Thank you for this video, I have seen it many times. But only thanks to you I got into reading of the Perdido street station. Awesome book ! Totally mind-blowing :) !
Half way through I was thinking "What the hell is that? How's he ever going to pull that together and make sense of it?" and then a few highlights and details and suddenly it's looking amazing! I love your foresight. That's something I've always lacked in my work as I get way too caught up in details.
Been waiting for this, and you did not disappoint! You are sincerely generous to share your wisdom. Feng Zhu: possibly the most valuable design teacher on the web?
I'd like to see more videos like this one where you sketch out a single key frame or story beat. I find it really interesting how you break down the story and apply this into the design. Keep them coming! :)
Just wanted to thank you Feng for your videos. I love it, how you're able to explain everything you're doing or thinking. Every decision is backed up with sole knowledge and experience and seldom (or never) with an opinion withouht explanation. Its cool, that you've done this vid on interiors. A suggestion for another vid: Scenes with strong cast shadows, that would be cool. I allways have troubles, getting the shadows right (I should probalby study more perspective-drawing).
I was wondering that too! My guess is that he has black picked as the foreground color, and white as background, and he's hitting the X key to toggle between them, and hitting numbers to control opacity (i.e. 5=50%).
Thanks for the comments everyone. Sorry for the lack of update, but we've been busy planning for an upcoming workshop in Singapore featuring some amazing designers. You can get more info at w w w fzdschool com / 2012
The main character in Perdido Street Station is in fact building wings for a garuda whose wings were cut off. His girlfriend's race (khepri) doesn't have wings. But anyway, great video :)
Dude i love you, you've given me that extra push to try some scene art, but its late and im lazy so i'll need some more push LOL thanks for this video really really helped!
Yagharek was a garuda though, and did in fact look like a bird, and used to have feathered bird-esque wings. It's just that the predominant non-human species in the city was insectoid. Can't recall the name of the species.
Don't sketch with your wrist. Sketch with your elbow, Feng actually does a video on this on this channel! I believe it's the traditional mediums video :)
what brush do you use to draw the cloudy stuff ind the first scene, the one you use looks like a castle or something ?^^ but i want to know which is the other one :(
you have to create one: "edit", "keybindings", somewhere below "transform" (i hope these are correct for the english version). i use "ctrl"+"shift"+"+". :)
The brush your painting with, I am trying to mimic its settings from what I am watching. And it isn't working, it would be great if you could help me out with making a setting what will react the same way inside Photoshop as yours. If you do not understand what I mean, I am looking at your brush, and it almost looks like your painting with oils - I really would like to have a brush setting what can mimic this. Thankyou Luke
Hey Feng, could you do an episode on some blizzard fantasy painting styles for environments? I haven't quite seen you do this yet.... The MMORPG Landscapes episode is close...but if you look at Peter Lee from Blizzard's work that's more what I'm talking about.... Lot of big titan characters...managing larger than life characters placed variously in perspective....
Very nice - really loved the lightning on all 3, Thanks for sharing. About the CEO drawing and straight lines - dont´you ever use the Command "R" to rotate the canvas ?.
Feng, Where i can find brush from point when you're starting set up values? (Jagged brush) Could You add link? ;) Really nice brush! And what is photoshop number of chalk brush you use (in CS4 - if you can) cause I've tried everything & any brush I take I dont take effect like You painting. Thanks 4 this teachin' us! You're so great explainer and even funny and also you're helping a lot of in perspective, shadows - not as profesors on my study... :) Thanks a lot! Best regards
Feng is just so generous sharing his huge knowledge like this. Saying "thank you" isn't enough. You deserve all the success you have and more brother.
Commenting because these older videos still have crazy value!
FENG IS THE BEAST OF CONCEPT ARTISTS!!!
I love how freaking much this guy know. He sits for 40 minutes, talking, talking, talking and talking about everything and it feels like most of it is usable tips.
Thank you so much for taking this time, Feng!
Feng,
Thank you so much for making these videos in your schedule. You are helping many people and for free. Your professionalism and your work speaks for itself, nothing I can say here can justify.
Peace
You sir, are the most professional person I've ever known.
Thank you, Feng, for creating such a rich Concept Art Encyclopedia ! Haven't met you yet but I can feel that you are a big soul !!
For some reason I watch every video of you again and again, they are so inspiring and good. You're such an inspiration
every day i check for these videos
Wow 40 mins this time? These videos are incredible, thanks so much
China Miéville is the name of the author. The book is Perdido Street Station.
Its a great piece of literary work full of imaginative concepts and exotic creatures. Certainly a great read, especially if you're into a magic/steampunk mixture (runepunk?).
The FZD Design Cinema Contest deadline is approaching soon. Be sure to submit your entry by September 30, 2013 to win a trip to Singapore. Good luck to you all~~
Feng, I just wanted to take some time to thank you for uploading these videos. I learned more from you and other great youtubers than I did in Art School I hope you know that. Also I'm glad you are on youtube and hope you continue with it for a long time. Since I don't have the luxury to go to Singapore to go to you school I just want to thank you again for the fantastic videos.
from watching all of his videos, hes gonna say that its never too late. he even gave an example of one person who started at his 40s i think? but Feng says its alot of work and practice. and in my personal point of view i think its never too late. just go to an art school and practive every day. not just fantasy stuff but foundation and the reason behind each object and design u put into it.
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@knozos Yep, and he doesn't use pen pressure sensitivity to get the opacity / value, he just dials in values manually using the keypad number keys.
tyfor all the time you take for making this videos!!!! can wait for the next one...ty
@ColdDegree0 - It is done using a mask, that way you paint on the canvas but all the areas in black are masked out keeping the edges solid. if he did a brush stroke straight down the canvas it would appear in all three unmasked areas but not in the black area.
This is great. I got a work I need to hand in to apply for an Architecture line in a uni. It's designing a bug city and I found this video and the book very inspirational. Thank you!
@dataphreak It is actually a single canvas, he just puts a layer with black frames for each picture at the top of it all. But you could also have three different files open t the same time in different windows or tabes inside Photoshop.
@MrSiiKez I agree, but I think he tries to actually, but don't forget he's doing this in his spare time and all for free. I'm extremely grateful!
Thank you for this video, I have seen it many times. But only thanks to you I got into reading of the Perdido street station. Awesome book ! Totally mind-blowing :) !
Half way through I was thinking "What the hell is that? How's he ever going to pull that together and make sense of it?" and then a few highlights and details and suddenly it's looking amazing!
I love your foresight. That's something I've always lacked in my work as I get way too caught up in details.
Been waiting for this, and you did not disappoint! You are sincerely generous to share your wisdom. Feng Zhu: possibly the most valuable design teacher on the web?
I'd like to see more videos like this one where you sketch out a single key frame or story beat. I find it really interesting how you break down the story and apply this into the design.
Keep them coming! :)
unbelievable talent!
@DoomHammerFist Go to to edit>keyboard shortcuts, set a shortcut then program it to one of your tablet buttons.
The book is called Perdido Street Station, by China Miéville. :)
Just wanted to thank you Feng for your videos.
I love it, how you're able to explain everything you're doing or thinking.
Every decision is backed up with sole knowledge and experience and seldom (or never) with an opinion withouht explanation.
Its cool, that you've done this vid on interiors.
A suggestion for another vid:
Scenes with strong cast shadows, that would be cool. I allways have troubles, getting the shadows right (I should probalby study more perspective-drawing).
Thank you so much!
Feng is such a boss!
Click then hold shift and click will give you straight lines. It looks a bit mechanical, but sometimes that looks good.
More of these please , with maybe different approaches? The internet totally lacks of interirour design tutorials. Love your videos =)
I was wondering that too! My guess is that he has black picked as the foreground color, and white as background, and he's hitting the X key to toggle between them, and hitting numbers to control opacity (i.e. 5=50%).
one word, inspirational!
you are GREAT!!!!
Sweetness! New video!
I've read Un Lun Dun by Chine Mieville and it was great! very original.
very awesome, thanks, I especially like the first one.
Thank you feng
Does anyone know the book Feng is talking about at arround 2:19? I can't really understand the full title and the name of the author.
Hi @Curthano, The book that Feng was referring to is Perdido Street Station. Thanks! :)
I'm hoping to somehow implement this in my architecture presentations. Would be so awesome. Thanks for the great vids!
amazing work.
Thanks for the comments everyone. Sorry for the lack of update, but we've been busy planning for an upcoming workshop in Singapore featuring some amazing designers. You can get more info at w w w fzdschool com / 2012
thank you so much feng! you really get me thinking about how i can make my concepts better for class! :D
Bravo o// Mr Zhu. Inspirational video.
Another Master Feng crazy design....;D
Again, thank you! Great insight and video!
5:08
Heh... did he just paint OVER the brush menu???
"Detail the crap out of this painting", best sentence I have ever heard!
The main character in Perdido Street Station is in fact building wings for a garuda whose wings were cut off. His girlfriend's race (khepri) doesn't have wings. But anyway, great video :)
I'll watch all of it when I get back home from school
Fascinating!
thanks !
Exellent video. Thank you. )
@Fengdesigns @Skapanorn @pmorei Thank you all :D, just added the book to my list of must reads.
very helpful tutorial, thanks!
YAY!! Finally Feng!
Thanks for uploading man :)
Of course! I heard him breathe like 3-4 times. LOL Thanks so much Feng! :D
i would like to see him color painting this black and white interiors
Thanks again for another great tutorial Feng!! :D
Ok thank you :)
40 minutes? Brb, popcorn.
Dude i love you, you've given me that extra push to try some scene art, but its late and im lazy so i'll need some more push LOL thanks for this video really really helped!
Do what you like... would you rather do something you love or something you hate?
Yagharek was a garuda though, and did in fact look like a bird, and used to have feathered bird-esque wings. It's just that the predominant non-human species in the city was insectoid. Can't recall the name of the species.
Don't sketch with your wrist. Sketch with your elbow, Feng actually does a video on this on this channel! I believe it's the traditional mediums video :)
OMG i ve been waiting for so long - let me savoir the next few hours before i press start
what brush do you use to draw the cloudy stuff ind the first scene, the one you use looks like a castle or something ?^^ but i want to know which is the other one :(
you have to create one: "edit", "keybindings", somewhere below "transform" (i hope these are correct for the english version). i use "ctrl"+"shift"+"+". :)
ca you explain how your light source glow?
what tool are you to do that, have concern me for very long time, thank you.
@KayosWONER lol I went back and watched it, Tim Miller.
Why does it look so easy when you do it??I mean, it's like, I could do that, and then, I try and whoopsi! LOL
The brush your painting with, I am trying to mimic its settings from what I am watching. And it isn't working, it would be great if you could help me out with making a setting what will react the same way inside Photoshop as yours. If you do not understand what I mean, I am looking at your brush, and it almost looks like your painting with oils - I really would like to have a brush setting what can mimic this.
Thankyou
Luke
Hope you are still teaching in another 3 or 4 years cause thats when im going to study again :D
Hey Feng, could you do an episode on some blizzard fantasy painting styles for environments? I haven't quite seen you do this yet.... The MMORPG Landscapes episode is close...but if you look at Peter Lee from Blizzard's work that's more what I'm talking about.... Lot of big titan characters...managing larger than life characters placed variously in perspective....
Can you tell us the name of the book again, i didn't understand it. Thx!
What was the author and book again? I wouldn't really hear exactly, nor was it an easy name to guess the spelling.
Can I make a request? Black and White landscapes with no undo.
He has a pretty cool one similar to that, check it out cause you may like it :D episode 65. Not black and white but with no undo!
Very nice - really loved the lightning on all 3, Thanks for sharing.
About the CEO drawing and straight lines - dont´you ever use the Command "R" to rotate the canvas ?.
what kind of brush is he using @ 2:30 ???
So if im 21 and new bout this. Im pretty ok at drawing and have a strong fantasy.. Am im to late to learn to draw like you?
@rhatcher010 Yep, one of my favorites!
awesome vid. Question: Why does he need such an insanely high resolution for his canvas ?
did you say a concept artist from blur studios recommended that book? if I heard that correctly who was the concept artist at blur?
Your site is very helpful
Hi feng, i wonder how you draw these perspective in photoshop with a tablet. How do you draw it so accurately?
Do you think 3D when painting silhouette characters from front view? Or do you just consentrate in 2D forms??????
arg why are you so good :(
Can you make a tutorial about sketching from scratch and techniques???
Perdido Street Station, China Mieville :)
@vengadorsky It's all about quality, not quantity as far as I'm concerned though. :)
do you give scholarships to the foreigns?
@Lengry not much if a computer wizz ... honestly wouldnt know where to start ...
Can you spell out the name of the book, slowly?
Feng, Where i can find brush from point when you're starting set up values? (Jagged brush) Could You add link? ;) Really nice brush! And what is photoshop number of chalk brush you use (in CS4 - if you can) cause I've tried everything & any brush I take I dont take effect like You painting. Thanks 4 this teachin' us! You're so great explainer and even funny and also you're helping a lot of in perspective, shadows - not as profesors on my study... :) Thanks a lot! Best regards
3rd looks like bar from ME2
@AndyMcNabStab was wandering the exact same thing :L
hold R and rotate with the pen :)
any short key for flip the paper..