1) rule of thirds, focal point on grid, other things in squares 2) the story 3) try monochromatic, first for shape language, then colour 4) dont start with details 5) pick something existence then pull inspiration from there 6) imagine what its like to live in the place 7) pick a dominant colour, then anither colour where you want it to pop
The never ending enthusiasm for your craft and the attitude of "lets have fun whilst working" ontop your ever informative content makes this channel by far my number one channel that I get excited for when ever I see new content coming from it! I'm a game dev and 3D modeler myself but I've always wanted to get more and more into painting, and lately I've been doing just that, your stuff is a pure gold mine, so thank you for sharing what you do Trent! Big love!
Super helpful thank you! I've been trying to do some environment pieces lately , but as someone who focussed on character/figurative stuff until now it feels like i've gone back 5 years xD
Hello Trend! I know this vid is a little older but it helped me A LOT today! i wanted to thank you and want to say that I appreciate your work. Thank you!
The large casino building and the ship fights for attention in my opinion. They both split the image in half and have similar size and value. If the casino is most important then I would push the ship into that green atmosphere to the right and shrink it down. The same goes for the casino if the ship were to be the focus. Love the mood of this piece.
That music..... Man your killing me lol... The intro made me look to see if my pops was around lol! Ok of posible can you explain the jumping from program, from cc to sketchbook? I am tryi g to just atick to one program lol
I fucking love your art masterpiece, you are the reason I start thinking, I should start practice, but I love too much what I see right now. someday I wish to draw like you !.
Hello, this video was extremely helpful for me. I have been struggling with drawing environments and always avoid drawing them. I will take some of these things into mind when I draw next time. Also, your #1 tip when you divided the canvas into nine is called the rule of thirds. Thanks for uploading!
Diffuse this blend for an inspiring fragrance in any environment or add it to V-6™ Vegetable Oil Complex for a powerful aromatic experience. Watch it here: ua-cam.com/video/W5I_y9nLdIM/v-deo.html
Personally I am struggling with how and with what to start my work. I have a story, I have a scene in my mind, but I have no idea where to begin, or how to continue from the place I know how to make, but no idea how to make one other particular thing. For example, I have this huge moonlight, it's all beautiful, skies are beautiful, used a brush that has a splat sort of pattern and used it to create stars, and my mood is set to green-ish light blue scene, like magical and lightly colored winter kind of green night color or something, and I am struggling with creating forest, or in general what to draw at all...my scene is half empty basically. I do not own a graphics tablet, so I have a mouse with the lack of pressure sensitivity which would help me out with seamless transition to lighter lines, and straighter lines for trees, but I am kind of thinking of workarounds by trying to paint over a forest picture from internet and kind of trying to replicate the contour. I am watching quite a lot of tutorials that I can get for free, checking how others are doing, what are their techniques and starting points, still not a easy thing when you have to figure out how and where to begin. Funny enough I finished Uni in general arts and graphics design, but painting on actual canvas with real pain seems easier than this :D probably because I have a set scene in front of my eyes rather than in my head, and I think I am not used to trying to draw and paint something from my head. Any advice, if there is any besides practicing and staying on track to draw and paint stuff from my imagination?
What's a tangent? Well son.. That's when you get a REALLLLY annoying customer right.. And then they make these weird revision requests, and then they change their mind, and then they go back to the original etc.. 😂
At 6:00 you begin to add these nice blurred lights. How is that done? I watched the video frame by frame, but I don't understand how you achieve the soft blur around the lights.
Hey trent. I am an aspiring concept artist and I've been really grateful for all your content for us artists! You art is of course super high level, just watching you paint this world makes me so overwhelmed and a bit intimidated. Do you maybe plan on doing something for beginners, how to start as an concept artist and what to focus on first? What to practice on and how to generate ideas for worlds? Maybe something on the smaller scale of things? That would be super helpful, anyway, thanks for all the content!
i dont know how to staart backgrounds whenever i start drawing i cant get anything in. the bulding or stuff ends up too big and it doesnt look how i want or it looks generic
Hello! I'm new to your channel :) This is the first video I see and totally LOVED it!!! I hava a couple of questions, though. 1. Do you have a video of how to go from grayscale to color? I kind of got a glimpse of the process (matching a reference color image with the color map, couldn't catch the rest), but it would be very helpful if there was one with tips and tricks to make your environment look like you thought of the colors from the beginning. 2. Which document preferences do you recomend? Speaking personally, I want to start writing and illustrating digital comics but have some trouble with the image quality... I think it looks kind of pixelated when I zoom in and can't feel comfortable with it. Thanks in advance for taking the time to read my comment! Keep up with your excellent work. :3
I love everything about this video and this is why I love art and artists who love what they’re doing. You’re full of passion and you commit 100% on what youcreate. And by this piece, what you create is amazing. It’s heart warming and inspiring, deeply inspiring. Thanks for these tips and for sharing ❤️ I will follow your work now. Keep up the good work ❤️
Lovely video and tips, I love number 6. I love creating worlds and picturing myself there but my art isn't to the par I like because my mind is more clear then what my pen can do. But it's so lovely to watch you do it.
I have so many problems with drawing environments and don't know how to start it, haha. I can draw some objects themselves but only not so detailed ones. DO you have any recommendations, like books to learn from or online courses (beside your own ones? :D")
I don't know how I can find what I look for. How are the images called that a concept artist draws, with which a 3d artist can build his models after? Or is this kind of illustration what i need for that?
Depends how detailed the 3D artist needs their art. Usually a 3d artist would use something like a model sheet / character turnaround, with or without measurements, colour info, textures etc, again depending how much free reign the modeller is being given. To get to this point, where the modeller has something to work off, they or other artists make concept art - throwing ideas together, usually in a rough style without too much detail and then building on good ideas with each iteration until they end up with the final character / environment/whatever.
Wow, this video is so good and concise. Thank you! I always get caught losing the composition when cleaning up the picture. I will definitely zoom out more. By the way, do you ever flip the canvas?
@@TrentKaniuga welp, historically i suppose belgrade is, its one of the oldest european cities, with a rich history of like 7000 years, but man im so gassed right now that you replied, i found your channel about a month ago and after 2 weeks i had binge watched almost all your videos, love what you do man and i really aspire to be like you ( not like a copy just with work ethic, goals and skill) Im going into my sophmore year of concept and character design and you along with marc brunet, sinix, ethan becker and proko have been such a big help to me and i just want to thank you for that
Help, someone? I really want to catch up with all the cool stuff in this vid, but I do not know english language that well. Can somebody do a subtitles for that? In russian for example? Т_Т
1) Нужно учить композиции 2) Нужно понять, какую историю ты хочешь рассказать своим рисунком 3)Нужно рисовать по референсам 4)Начать рисовать предпочтительнее серым цветом и его оттенками, а потом добавлять цвет 5)Не нужно смотреть на рисунок как на фотографию. Ты должен(а) представлять, что ты находишься именно там и видишь все своими глазами 6)Нужно выбрать доминирующий цвет в композиции. Примерно 2/3 всей картины должны быть похожими оттенками 7) Нужно уметь "вести" глаз зрителя по рисунку 8) Переодически уменьшай изображение, чтобы осмотреть всю картину полностью и понять, чего не хватает, а что лишнее
Facinating process. I'm sure I'll understand more as I start using SketchUp. I'm wondering how many layers you create as you draw elements? How are gradient layers used? Is it just a menu tool on a layer as you color? Do you explain this in one of your box sets or on another video? How is the atmosphere glow and depth of field created between foreground and background? Is it a color dodge effect in another layer between? Digital art is amazing. You can change atmosphere, color and elements so quickly to such dramatic effect. Great video!
Ha, just watched the Master Dou Concept Art video. Got the answer to my questions there. Looks like I just need to consume all your archived videos while I wait on getting my drawing hardware and software. Then I can get into your Box Sets. I'll get the technical stuff by doing but I'm finding your design philosophies most helpful in developing what I'm actually drawing. Thanks.
That was helpful, thank you. Trying to place myself in the painting mentally I only ever tend to do when I make a map or some fantasy location. I never really try that any other time.
1) rule of thirds, focal point on grid, other things in squares
2) the story
3) try monochromatic, first for shape language, then colour
4) dont start with details
5) pick something existence then pull inspiration from there
6) imagine what its like to live in the place
7) pick a dominant colour, then anither colour where you want it to pop
@xi awww thx 😎
I'm a 30 year old man, but you're still my art dad Trent.
On behalf of everyone you ever helped out with this channel, thank you.
agreed
@@PanConQueso001 what's Nathan's channel?
The never ending enthusiasm for your craft and the attitude of "lets have fun whilst working" ontop your ever informative content makes this channel by far my number one channel that I get excited for when ever I see new content coming from it!
I'm a game dev and 3D modeler myself but I've always wanted to get more and more into painting, and lately I've been doing just that, your stuff is a pure gold mine, so thank you for sharing what you do Trent! Big love!
Great tips! Thank you!
Super helpful thank you! I've been trying to do some environment pieces lately , but as someone who focussed on character/figurative stuff until now it feels like i've gone back 5 years xD
Thanks a lot for the tips!
Thank really helpful
This looks super cool man. Definitely want to start doing things like this. Will apply your tips in my next drawing!
My problem is not at all the drawing or painting part of the drawing, ITS THE FRICKING BRUSHES LIKE WHICH BRUSHES DO YOU USE 😰
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Great stuff. Good tips.
Hello Trend! I know this vid is a little older but it helped me A LOT today! i wanted to thank you and want to say that I appreciate your work. Thank you!
The large casino building and the ship fights for attention in my opinion. They both split the image in half and have similar size and value. If the casino is most important then I would push the ship into that green atmosphere to the right and shrink it down. The same goes for the casino if the ship were to be the focus. Love the mood of this piece.
I think he wanted them to kinda share attention
These are the best advices someone can give you! Thank you so much man.
I thought it was Belgrade and i got really confused lol
Awesome tips! Thank you for sharing!
lmao same! im from bg lol!
@@promise6223 blizu smo :D
Octoboobs Me too
That music..... Man your killing me lol... The intro made me look to see if my pops was around lol! Ok of posible can you explain the jumping from program, from cc to sketchbook? I am tryi g to just atick to one program lol
What did you do to add color? it went from 0 to 100 instantly!
It was a gradient map adjustment layer
I fucking love your art masterpiece, you are the reason I start thinking, I should start practice, but I love too much what I see right now. someday I wish to draw like you !.
Hello, this video was extremely helpful for me. I have been struggling with drawing environments and always avoid drawing them. I will take some of these things into mind when I draw next time. Also, your #1 tip when you divided the canvas into nine is called the rule of thirds. Thanks for uploading!
Diffuse this blend for an inspiring fragrance in any environment or add it to V-6™ Vegetable Oil Complex for a powerful aromatic experience.
Watch it here: ua-cam.com/video/W5I_y9nLdIM/v-deo.html
Personally I am struggling with how and with what to start my work. I have a story, I have a scene in my mind, but I have no idea where to begin, or how to continue from the place I know how to make, but no idea how to make one other particular thing. For example, I have this huge moonlight, it's all beautiful, skies are beautiful, used a brush that has a splat sort of pattern and used it to create stars, and my mood is set to green-ish light blue scene, like magical and lightly colored winter kind of green night color or something, and I am struggling with creating forest, or in general what to draw at all...my scene is half empty basically. I do not own a graphics tablet, so I have a mouse with the lack of pressure sensitivity which would help me out with seamless transition to lighter lines, and straighter lines for trees, but I am kind of thinking of workarounds by trying to paint over a forest picture from internet and kind of trying to replicate the contour.
I am watching quite a lot of tutorials that I can get for free, checking how others are doing, what are their techniques and starting points, still not a easy thing when you have to figure out how and where to begin.
Funny enough I finished Uni in general arts and graphics design, but painting on actual canvas with real pain seems easier than this :D probably because I have a set scene in front of my eyes rather than in my head, and I think I am not used to trying to draw and paint something from my head.
Any advice, if there is any besides practicing and staying on track to draw and paint stuff from my imagination?
May I know, how did you turn the bluish scene color on 6:46 into greeny and colorized scene on 6:47?
I have a similar question
Why do you do grayscale in Autodesk and coloring in Photoshop?
Bro you are a F-N BOSS! I aspire to be on your playing field one day.
Yo I drew something so similar to that house in the back ground once
What's a tangent?
Well son.. That's when you get a REALLLLY annoying customer right.. And then they make these weird revision requests, and then they change their mind, and then they go back to the original etc.. 😂
This is sooo helpful, thank you! Your videos are so inspiring and help me get out of my comfort zone. Keep it up dude
As always, incredibly inspirational Trent!
At 6:00 you begin to add these nice blurred lights. How is that done? I watched the video frame by frame, but I don't understand how you achieve the soft blur around the lights.
Hey trent. I am an aspiring concept artist and I've been really grateful for all your content for us artists! You art is of course super high level, just watching you paint this world makes me so overwhelmed and a bit intimidated. Do you maybe plan on doing something for beginners, how to start as an concept artist and what to focus on first? What to practice on and how to generate ideas for worlds? Maybe something on the smaller scale of things? That would be super helpful, anyway, thanks for all the content!
Focus on the Easy Art Lessons that I've made until you have the basic fundamentals down.
@@TrentKaniuga Thank you! I'll be sure to check it out. Thanks for taking your time to reply :)
"The world of twilight monk" ll'be translated into portuguese?
i dont know how to staart backgrounds whenever i start drawing i cant get anything in. the bulding or stuff ends up too big and it doesnt look how i want or it looks generic
Honestly for ideas on environments I just randomly click on google maps and see what’s out there. Country specific of course but it’s fun.
Hello! I'm new to your channel :) This is the first video I see and totally LOVED it!!! I hava a couple of questions, though.
1. Do you have a video of how to go from grayscale to color? I kind of got a glimpse of the process (matching a reference color image with the color map, couldn't catch the rest), but it would be very helpful if there was one with tips and tricks to make your environment look like you thought of the colors from the beginning.
2. Which document preferences do you recomend? Speaking personally, I want to start writing and illustrating digital comics but have some trouble with the image quality... I think it looks kind of pixelated when I zoom in and can't feel comfortable with it.
Thanks in advance for taking the time to read my comment! Keep up with your excellent work. :3
How do you change from a grayscale to a full color picture? I'm having trouble with that
rosey jl Google it
Use the adjustment layer. click Gradient Map, then you can change the gray scale to a color gradient
I use a lot of gradient maps, and then I get more specific as the piece comes together.
Really love your Environment/landscape paintings! :D I learn so much from them!
Did he used overlay when all of the painting switched to blue colour.
what software are you drawing in before you go to photoshop?
You actually deserve more subs. keep up the good work.
I love everything about this video and this is why I love art and artists who love what they’re doing. You’re full of passion and you commit 100% on what youcreate. And by this piece, what you create is amazing. It’s heart warming and inspiring, deeply inspiring. Thanks for these tips and for sharing ❤️ I will follow your work now. Keep up the good work ❤️
Hey Trent, moving to Irvine at the end of this month. Wanna grab a beer?
I don't understand how you went from gray to blue to gold....
My mind is confusion
how long did it take to finish that whole project that ur making in the video??
Lovely video and tips, I love number 6. I love creating worlds and picturing myself there but my art isn't to the par I like because my mind is more clear then what my pen can do. But it's so lovely to watch you do it.
same here. We have to just keep practising and drawing and have fun! :)
Awesome and helpful video! Loving the uodates on the World of Twilight Monk ebook. :D
thx trent. u inspired me to make environmnt
This is one amazingly good, well made and extremely helpful video
Amazing and incredibly helpful again thank you
Thanks for the great video, and awesome work!
5 years later and this is still helpful...
I love your style... is just so good 👌🏻
Tip 1 learn to draw
I have so many problems with drawing environments and don't know how to start it, haha. I can draw some objects themselves but only not so detailed ones. DO you have any recommendations, like books to learn from or online courses (beside your own ones? :D")
thnx man this is what im looking for
I don't know how I can find what I look for. How are the images called that a concept artist draws, with which a 3d artist can build his models after? Or is this kind of illustration what i need for that?
Depends how detailed the 3D artist needs their art. Usually a 3d artist would use something like a model sheet / character turnaround, with or without measurements, colour info, textures etc, again depending how much free reign the modeller is being given. To get to this point, where the modeller has something to work off, they or other artists make concept art - throwing ideas together, usually in a rough style without too much detail and then building on good ideas with each iteration until they end up with the final character / environment/whatever.
Oh my god! I totally called the bath house!
that’s crazy. ✅
Good advices, thank you, bro
6:16 this part... uff. full on jizz
Wow, this video is so good and concise. Thank you! I always get caught losing the composition when cleaning up the picture. I will definitely zoom out more. By the way, do you ever flip the canvas?
Your art is so cool bro what tf
Thank you! It's very helpful
damn i tripped myself out, thought the title said belgrade, the capital of serbia
I hear that a LOT. When I came up with the name, I was trying to think of something that sounded old and grounded.
@@TrentKaniuga welp, historically i suppose belgrade is, its one of the oldest european cities, with a rich history of like 7000 years, but man im so gassed right now that you replied, i found your channel about a month ago and after 2 weeks i had binge watched almost all your videos, love what you do man and i really aspire to be like you ( not like a copy just with work ethic, goals and skill) Im going into my sophmore year of concept and character design and you along with marc brunet, sinix, ethan becker and proko have been such a big help to me and i just want to thank you for that
thank you so much for putting out all of this quality FREE content and all the real and hard truths of working in the industry
could you do on on interiors?
Tell me the name of the track
Help, someone? I really want to catch up with all the cool stuff in this vid, but I do not know english language that well. Can somebody do a subtitles for that? In russian for example? Т_Т
1) Нужно учить композиции
2) Нужно понять, какую историю ты хочешь рассказать своим рисунком
3)Нужно рисовать по референсам
4)Начать рисовать предпочтительнее серым цветом и его оттенками, а потом добавлять цвет
5)Не нужно смотреть на рисунок как на фотографию. Ты должен(а) представлять, что ты находишься именно там и видишь все своими глазами
6)Нужно выбрать доминирующий цвет в композиции. Примерно 2/3 всей картины должны быть похожими оттенками
7) Нужно уметь "вести" глаз зрителя по рисунку
8) Переодически уменьшай изображение, чтобы осмотреть всю картину полностью и понять, чего не хватает, а что лишнее
@@aielloart большое спасибо :DD это очень приятно что отозвался человек на перевод)
👍👍👍
Adam driver??
new to environments and this helped thank you ^ ^
Could I be inspired by a map from overwatch? (I really love junkertown)
You could be inspired by any game that you love. Yes. Junkertown is a great map to be inspired by.
@@TrentKaniuga thank you for the reply and time! :)
I like it. That was awesome, thanks for the advice.
If I start with gray scale I am never able to imagine it with colors and it is just a gray scale painting.
I don't imagine it with color while doing grayscale. I FIND the colors after I establish values.
@@TrentKaniuga my colors don't work well even the color blend mode is either to saturated or less Saturated ...what blending modes are the best?
Holy shit that was amazing
7:03 I hear the bottle in the water
Facinating process. I'm sure I'll understand more as I start using SketchUp. I'm wondering how many layers you create as you draw elements? How are gradient layers used? Is it just a menu tool on a layer as you color? Do you explain this in one of your box sets or on another video? How is the atmosphere glow and depth of field created between foreground and background? Is it a color dodge effect in another layer between? Digital art is amazing. You can change atmosphere, color and elements so quickly to such dramatic effect. Great video!
Ha, just watched the Master Dou Concept Art video. Got the answer to my questions there. Looks like I just need to consume all your archived videos while I wait on getting my drawing hardware and software. Then I can get into your Box Sets. I'll get the technical stuff by doing but I'm finding your design philosophies most helpful in developing what I'm actually drawing. Thanks.
Thats so amazing man. Thanks so much for all the tips :)
great video! really helpful and to the point!
im from serbia not from belgrade tho
This is really awesome! Thanks a bunch!
greetings from serbia, belgrade!
what is siftwere?plz answere
"where shady people hang out and sharpen their knives" hahahaha
AWESOME
So pretty ❤️
How long does it take a professional like you to create such an artwork?
Lille4008 Probably a couple years of dedicated practice and research/studies
About 5 hours to paint, but years to practice.
+Trent Kaniuga Wrong. This is a commonly held belief.
Perfect :)
Smells salty
thanks for the tips!
What an awesome vid:)
Do you illustrate for people?
Commissions? I don't really do them anymore. I only work on client work for AAA games and my own art books.
Where is Belgarde city?
South East of Crescent Isle
You're genius!
how long did it take to bring this drawing to finish?
About 6 hours. I use a lot of photoshop cheats.
That was helpful, thank you. Trying to place myself in the painting mentally I only ever tend to do when I make a map or some fantasy location. I never really try that any other time.
great 9 tips
How long did this take you?
About 6 hours
@@TrentKaniuga Wow amazing!
Cool. Too cool!
Very very nice
Sexy bgm
AMAZING SPEEDPAINT AND TIPS :D
6:46 what did you do to change the colors?
Tytogryph ikr just completely skipped it 😔