Did I just find the channel of a professional artist who makes official lol splash art and shares his process with explanation!! I would really love to see more from you! I also like how you explain the struggles you find and how you overcome them in the process, it clarifies that the process requires a lot of thought and does not 'just happen'!
@@jeanember8807 thanks! Turns out I already watched his Ahri speedpaint and it was awesome. However I find this artist's style closer to what I want to achieve ^^
@Diego CJ Nah that's way too many if you're not merging them part way through, he's only at 400+ because photoshop looks at the last layer named "Layer #" and just adds 1 to the number, so when he last merged it just took the name of a layer in the 400's
He doesn't use the 400+ layers simultaneously, its just a technique to avoid an infinity of ctrl + Z Instead of undo, you create a new layer, do your microchanges then merge it. And sometimes there are "inceptions": a change within a change, or a change within a change within a change.
@CraftedGadgetMC They only did one right now and that was for Yuumi, not to mention it is not complete. Before that, they had the art spotlight series on hold.
I always admired everyone who makes this stunning splash arts for the League champions, but sometimes its hard to actually know the artists who made them. I really love your work and appreciate way too much how open you are at showing us the whole process. Thanks!
1:40 concept is so wonderful.. actually all 5 of those thumbs just after are staggering. I hope they utilize some further refined versions in tandem with future lore reveals around qiyana and her background Top right and middle left would have had so much community support on its release I think, compared to the lukewarm to negative reception "she looks like a smite charavter"
1:34 That version was so majestic that you could immediately feel her royalty background, I soooo would've loved to have had that as the final splash! But totally understand the actual one fitting her personality more
its a shame that the team decided on a splash that wasnt so boring, the other poses and compositions had a lot of potential and he came up with so many great ideas
it's true, but the essence of Qiyana is just the cockiness and the sassiness of her and i think the pose he settled for in the end captures that perfectly, she's holding the blade so lightly while she gives smirk and a sassy pose to the camera because she just doesn't give a fuck. i loooooove it.
Qiyana is my favorite champion! Seeing how her splash art was made got me to realize how much an image can portray the character with their body language alone. But every part of the splash art is all Qiyana! Her nonchalant attitude with the explosion behind her, the hand on her hips and the gorgeous shine of her crown just screams greatness and power!
So you’re the man behind my favorite splash art of all time! I love all of the details in her splash, the focus being on her and each element on her ohmlat. It’s a simple pose, but it really does capture her essence better than an action pose. The way she lightly holds her weapon, the hand in her hip, the glare. It all says that conquering is easy for her. She is confident, like she feels she is destined to rule the world, and it is your duty to bow to her. Such an amazing drawing, so glad you shared your process!!!
Simply impressive, I'm glad that this showed up on my suggestions, it inspires a lot. Thank you for sharing this amazing process with us, and keep up the good work!
It's really interesting to an expert at work. There's a lot Riot has done both good, and bad over the years. Skin and skin splash design has only gotten better and better over those years. Really impressive stuff you all help produce.
Considering that Qiyana is my main champion right now, I love everything about my cute but evil princess 💓 You did a wonderful job for her splash art, it's fitting for her.
I've been following you on DeviantArt for a while now and I was blown away when I found out you've done a few of the Splash Arts for Champions and Skins! I never would have expected it because of your usual nature artwork and the such. Keep up the good work! You're doing an amazing job... and I'll be over here favoriting every piece. ♥
Her splash sure is beautifully drawn, but the character's design itself seems really generic. I can see her being in one of those mobile game ads saying "Come play for free NOW my lord".
let me tell you that your content inspires me a lot to continue on the path of concept art, it is something that fascinates me and motivates me to continue learning with videos like these
I loved this splash, it's a perfect graphical example of her personality. It fits her character very well. On a side note, the other sketches were pretty good as well.
I admire the artists so much for being able to make characters look so cool and detailed 🥺 sometimes i just look at the champions (in wild rift) just to have a closer look at their designs 😂✨ and i'm just like 🤯 how did someone make this!
I didn't like the splash at all when it first came out but after watching this video, I have much more appreciation for it and I really like the way it looks! So gorgeous!! The sketches that you began with look amazing as well!
I think your art is amazing. I dream with be part of Riot Games splasharts team one day. I'm so noob right now compared with you, but I'll study and strive all i can to make it true, starting with my english because I am spanish xD. I hope see more of your works and learn of them ^^!! Ty so much for share this to us!!
@@chronicmasterbaiter5467 maybe because you felt offended for a comment that even was respectful begining with a "sorry", and i am not a youtuber, i am just a random guy on a YT account, i don't work making videos on YT
I'm not at artist but I love how much passion you seems about make this work of art. Really makes me love this champ that much more know the work that gets put into it.
I accidentally stumbled upon this video and the words he said totally made sense to me.. I've been having a hard time making art without overthinking about the details and stuff.. and I'm thankful I watched the whole video- I feel this is the answer to my demise.
This is a lot of dedication for a promotional image. Thank you for sharing your process through this! Its very helpful for other concept artists/ beginners who are wanting to get into the field :))))
Looks really cool! You should keep making more videos like these. It's always so interesting seeing the process that takes place towards the final finish.
Hey Atey! I love your work. I wanted to make a gumroad request for you or one of your RIOT coworkers. Those post-processing tricks that are used on many of the RIOT splash's seem pretty simple but are pulled off SO WELL by you guys. I think that would be really awesome! Thanks for posting this video!
Thanks for showing how you do stuff, like how you adjust the midtone value in comparison to the background light. I also find it really useful to go and paint on other things instead of staring at the same painting for hours. I\m still really new at drawing and painting (still grasping a lot of fundamentals like key values, proportions, anatomy, perspective etc) and a lot of the time when i render stuff with brushes it ends up looking muddy, I'd be really interested in seeing how you render smaller details like eyes, nose, etc. I'd really love to become as good as you years from now
pikachulover10 Beacause it’s lazy? Boring? How about unoriginal? Bad character design? Because it looks like an ad for a chinese mobile game? The list goes on
it really think the splash art is awesome, people on reddit just overreact thats all. maybe its generic but generic is not bad. it is not boring or lazy. you can literally use any splash art from lol and use it for a mobile game ad, lets be honest.
If you ever do something like this again, I would love you to talk about layer management, shortcuts you use, etc. Just how to use Photoshop to its full potential while painting. Great vid brotha.
Personally not a fan of the direction you guys ended up going, I think the othe thumbnails looked a lot better even if they didn't have as much sass. That said, dang dude this is some impressive art.
I said it before... her thumbnail looks like season 2 or even worse mobile game thumbnail... I can respect the hustle, but really dont like how thumbnail looks
Did I just find the channel of a professional artist who makes official lol splash art and shares his process with explanation!! I would really love to see more from you!
I also like how you explain the struggles you find and how you overcome them in the process, it clarifies that the process requires a lot of thought and does not 'just happen'!
I would reccomend looking up "knkl" on youtube. Particulairly the "lets Paint ahri" series
@@jeanember8807 thanks! Turns out I already watched his Ahri speedpaint and it was awesome. However I find this artist's style closer to what I want to achieve ^^
Amana HB for me it’s knkl! Dudes absolutely dope
Also Refract Art ...if you are interested in some official and non official login animations
Just sharing a channel called Deiv Calviz. He has a lot of league splash process in his channel!
5:38 "I like to avoid having too many layers."
Layer 477: "Am I a joke to you?"
Too many layers to him is probably 600+ lmao
He did say literally 1 or 2 seconds after that he merges them alot
I mean- I was at 900 layers once💀
I'm still stuck on step one where you take a reference photo. Where do I get a wife
Ebay
Wish
Amazon
Etsy
minecraft
467 layers?! oh my...anyway great job!
GriGore and there’s me who gets uncomfortable with more than 10 layers... fucking insane
He did say he keeps merging them. And if you look at the scrollbar at the right you can see he doesn't have that much layers at the same time.
@Diego CJ No wayyyy bro. Thats just bad
@Diego CJ Nah that's way too many if you're not merging them part way through, he's only at 400+ because photoshop looks at the last layer named "Layer #" and just adds 1 to the number, so when he last merged it just took the name of a layer in the 400's
He doesn't use the 400+ layers simultaneously, its just a technique to avoid an infinity of ctrl + Z
Instead of undo, you create a new layer, do your microchanges then merge it. And sometimes there are "inceptions": a change within a change, or a change within a change within a change.
Qiyana on the enemy team: 0:53
Qiyana on my team: 0:51
Omg kkkkk
so sad i had to oppose you, m8 XXD
@@midna6364 You don't use "kkkk" in english, use "lol" instead
your wife is pure gold, she looks so confident! good job.
This is almost a throwback to splash art spotlights a bunch of years ago
they're still doing that...
@CraftedGadgetMC They only did one right now and that was for Yuumi, not to mention it is not complete. Before that, they had the art spotlight series on hold.
This should be a legit video series from riot for the upcoming league champions
There is a series known as "the art of league of legends" but last time I checked it hasnt been updated in a long while
I always admired everyone who makes this stunning splash arts for the League champions, but sometimes its hard to actually know the artists who made them.
I really love your work and appreciate way too much how open you are at showing us the whole process.
Thanks!
1:40 concept is so wonderful.. actually all 5 of those thumbs just after are staggering. I hope they utilize some further refined versions in tandem with future lore reveals around qiyana and her background
Top right and middle left would have had so much community support on its release I think, compared to the lukewarm to negative reception "she looks like a smite charavter"
so they basically told you: ''Make her hips bigger and more noticeable'' xD
Amazing job man
1:34 That version was so majestic that you could immediately feel her royalty background, I soooo would've loved to have had that as the final splash! But totally understand the actual one fitting her personality more
if anything they shouldve reexplored it for battle queen... instead of the goofy splash we have instead
🤨 (i'm still rly not into the pigtails)
@@fatsoflo I normally don’t but I like the style a lot
love how you can hear how happy Atey is sharing his process, congrats Qiyana is fantastic!
Man this is amazing! thank you for sharing the whole process with us! thanks
its a shame that the team decided on a splash that wasnt so boring, the other poses and compositions had a lot of potential and he came up with so many great ideas
it's true, but the essence of Qiyana is just the cockiness and the sassiness of her and i think the pose he settled for in the end captures that perfectly, she's holding the blade so lightly while she gives smirk and a sassy pose to the camera because she just doesn't give a fuck. i loooooove it.
@@sonielsoni2940 Well Qiyana's not really smiling, but she is showing you she is a bitch
Meep Morp I think of it as a “I know I’m better than you” face and it’s so cool!
@@josiegalvan890 I also really love how her background seems to be an explosion and she is like "What? I've done this so many times before."
Meep Morp yesss exactly lol like she probably threw the whole enemy team into a wall and BOOOOOM *pose* 😎
Qiyana is my favorite champion! Seeing how her splash art was made got me to realize how much an image can portray the character with their body language alone. But every part of the splash art is all Qiyana! Her nonchalant attitude with the explosion behind her, the hand on her hips and the gorgeous shine of her crown just screams greatness and power!
So you’re the man behind my favorite splash art of all time! I love all of the details in her splash, the focus being on her and each element on her ohmlat. It’s a simple pose, but it really does capture her essence better than an action pose. The way she lightly holds her weapon, the hand in her hip, the glare. It all says that conquering is easy for her. She is confident, like she feels she is destined to rule the world, and it is your duty to bow to her. Such an amazing drawing, so glad you shared your process!!!
It was great watching your process on these illustrations! Thanks for sharing! 🙏
I finally know who give Qiyana shes splash-art, and its soo perfect! Thanks for your job!)
Me as a qiyana main is really impressed by this video! Much love from germany
Simply impressive, I'm glad that this showed up on my suggestions, it inspires a lot. Thank you for sharing this amazing process with us, and keep up the good work!
It's really interesting to an expert at work. There's a lot Riot has done both good, and bad over the years. Skin and skin splash design has only gotten better and better over those years. Really impressive stuff you all help produce.
Considering that Qiyana is my main champion right now, I love everything about my cute but evil princess 💓 You did a wonderful job for her splash art, it's fitting for her.
THIS is the kind of video every illustrator needs to watch
I've been trying to practice leagues splash art color style
somehow no luck but ill get there eventually
i'm quite late, just wanted to say this splash art forced me to become a Qiyana main. Stunning artwork, thank you for uploading
Qiyana is easily my favourite champ and I must say, the splash art definitely iis a factor. Great job
I've been following you on DeviantArt for a while now and I was blown away when I found out you've done a few of the Splash Arts for Champions and Skins! I never would have expected it because of your usual nature artwork and the such. Keep up the good work! You're doing an amazing job... and I'll be over here favoriting every piece. ♥
Her splash art is lovely, we love our thicc assasin queen
Well Yeah ASSasin....
Her splash sure is beautifully drawn, but the character's design itself seems really generic. I can see her being in one of those mobile game ads saying "Come play for free NOW my lord".
V a x u and we all know Riot loves making the female champs thiccer than thicc
Nah this is horrbile its for horny yung bois
Splashes lately got 10 times better and I always admire and appreciate good work. I know you don't need me to say it but very well done
i follow you on insta and i got so used to your sketch style that i forgot how amazing your finished pieces are
I loved this video!!! You're such a great artist. it sounds so awesome to be doing paintings like this as your job!
man I love the art team keep up the great work guys
I love this artwork! Very interesting to see how this high quality painting is done. Big inspiration!
y do i just see this now! i really love qiyana and her splash art, great job!
This type of process videos are the ones I must enjoy
Qiyana, Empress of the Elements. You can clearly tell that she's an empress just by looking at the art. Perfect job
Incredible art, i love Qiyana, thanks for making her the way she is.
I literally ,LOVE all the sketches that ended up getting scrapped. Wish you went with one of the other ones.
This was very satisfying to watch. Splendid work, good sir
Amazing work! Getting to see your process of painting a splash is really cool
let me tell you that your content inspires me a lot to continue on the path of concept art, it is something that fascinates me and motivates me to continue learning with videos like these
I loved this splash, it's a perfect graphical example of her personality. It fits her character very well. On a side note, the other sketches were pretty good as well.
Incredible!! It was great seeing your process
I admire the artists so much for being able to make characters look so cool and detailed 🥺 sometimes i just look at the champions (in wild rift) just to have a closer look at their designs 😂✨ and i'm just like 🤯 how did someone make this!
Love Qiyana! Love her splash art. Great job!
Ok but ALL the sketches were amazing!
Thanks for sharing some of your process, this is really fascinating! You did an awesome job on the splash art.
I didn't like the splash at all when it first came out but after watching this video, I have much more appreciation for it and I really like the way it looks! So gorgeous!! The sketches that you began with look amazing as well!
I love the fact that you explained everything! It gave me some tips ^^
I think your art is amazing. I dream with be part of Riot Games splasharts team one day. I'm so noob right now compared with you, but I'll study and strive all i can to make it true, starting with my english because I am spanish xD. I hope see more of your works and learn of them ^^!! Ty so much for share this to us!!
I felt the layers in my soul.
"There's explosion in the background. Maybe something caused it?"
Maybe, my friend, just maybe.
Sorry but not funny
Haha. You don't need to get offended on behalf of some random youtuber mate. Life gets a lot easier😂
@@chronicmasterbaiter5467 maybe because you felt offended for a comment that even was respectful begining with a "sorry", and i am not a youtuber, i am just a random guy on a YT account, i don't work making videos on YT
I'm not at artist but I love how much passion you seems about make this work of art. Really makes me love this champ that much more know the work that gets put into it.
I accidentally stumbled upon this video and the words he said totally made sense to me.. I've been having a hard time making art without overthinking about the details and stuff.. and I'm thankful I watched the whole video- I feel this is the answer to my demise.
This is a lot of dedication for a promotional image. Thank you for sharing your process through this! Its very helpful for other concept artists/ beginners who are wanting to get into the field :))))
It's her in game icon as well. So it's very much a part of the game!
thanks for making kiyana looks so T I C C
Awesome!!! I just subscribed and I'm loving your works already. Thank, for sharing!
Wow holy crap, thank you for sharing your amazing progress! It's very inspirational :O
As a lol fanatic I’m so glad I subscribed to you
daaamn! that's so awesome. Thank you so much for sharing it with us :)
Looks really cool! You should keep making more videos like these. It's always so interesting seeing the process that takes place towards the final finish.
Ended up with a Josuke pose, very nice!
Thanks for sharing the process! It's nice to see a little behind the scenes on this type of work :D
Dude this is AMAZING!
"cool people don't look at the explosion" 😂
Your work is absolutely amazing sir!
I love your art, please make more videoes! You look great!
This painting is dope!
Hey Atey! I love your work. I wanted to make a gumroad request for you or one of your RIOT coworkers. Those post-processing tricks that are used on many of the RIOT splash's seem pretty simple but are pulled off SO WELL by you guys. I think that would be really awesome! Thanks for posting this video!
God, this is amazing, inspiring, you're so talented. Love it.
It's amazing. My favorite League splash so far ^_^
The second one... Looked SO good
Thanks for showing how you do stuff, like how you adjust the midtone value in comparison to the background light. I also find it really useful to go and paint on other things instead of staring at the same painting for hours. I\m still really new at drawing and painting (still grasping a lot of fundamentals like key values, proportions, anatomy, perspective etc) and a lot of the time when i render stuff with brushes it ends up looking muddy, I'd be really interested in seeing how you render smaller details like eyes, nose, etc. I'd really love to become as good as you years from now
You did a great job. Idk why reddit is flaming you because this is a great splash art!
pikachulover10 Beacause it’s lazy? Boring? How about unoriginal? Bad character design? Because it looks like an ad for a chinese mobile game? The list goes on
PlopBlobBlopUnderWater agreed, she also looks like she doesn’t have a ribcage. The splash art
looks fine, the problem is the character design.
it really think the splash art is awesome, people on reddit just overreact thats all. maybe its generic but generic is not bad. it is not boring or lazy. you can literally use any splash art from lol and use it for a mobile game ad, lets be honest.
@@eden2665 well,people with no real life these days only can complain in everything very rude on Internet.
LOL subreddit is stupid.
Qiyana is cool.
you're so good omg i love yu so much your art is an inspiration!
If you ever do something like this again, I would love you to talk about layer management, shortcuts you use, etc. Just how to use Photoshop to its full potential while painting. Great vid brotha.
And I'm still here sticking with my 3 layers Photoshop.
I learned so much from this video thank you so much!
Beautiful work! you are so talented
You did an amazing job with the splash art! And this video is great!
Love your work!
he did so well!
Personally not a fan of the direction you guys ended up going, I think the othe thumbnails looked a lot better even if they didn't have as much sass. That said, dang dude this is some impressive art.
Solar Core agreed, but then again, the fact that this character design came through ruined it from the start
I said it before... her thumbnail looks like season 2 or even worse mobile game thumbnail... I can respect the hustle, but really dont like how thumbnail looks
Can you upload tutorials like this? I REALLY WANNA TRY TO DRAW SPLASH ART LIKE LOL ALWAYS DOES.
11 hours of tutorial, fine.
istg illustrating splash art look so easy, while using paint sai, it's beyond hard and difficult, one day i'll draw like this
Thanks for sharing! Your art is awasome!
gorgeous workk
Great artist.
Professional, unique style, and really good with explanations too.
I was wandering if you other splashart inside LoL.
You did an amazing job!
NICE JOB ! 🙌🏻 AMAZING
Thanks for sharing the process with us!
Den blev såååå snygg! Jättebra gjort :D
i love you for making qiyanas splash
Dude this is amazing
Imagine being that talented
This was so fun and interesting, thanks!
duuuuuuuuuude, i loved the vid, awesome atey!
Good job man !