Concept Art Exercise: How to Paint Dramatic-Looking Monsters
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- Опубліковано 9 лип 2024
- Digital Painting Tutorial: Painting Monsters
Concept Art Genre: Sci-Fi Creatures
Subject: How to Paint Dramatic Monsters
Let's go deep! Sea monsters are awesome. There are so many creepy and beautiful creatures lurking down there. Let's borrow from those great real world references and bring some nightmares to life.
I think just about everyone has a childhood memory of being afraid of the water. What is down there? Can it eat me?
In this 15 minute video I challenge you to practice blending realism with your artistic technique-to create a compelling monster. So grab your stylus and let's paint your world.
Key Take-Aways: How to create monster drama by playing with pose energy, childhood fears and contrast to produce something memorable and awesome.
→ Pose Energy
→ Drawing Upon Childhood Fears
→ Contrast
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Digital Painting Challenge: 5 Monsters in 5 Weeks ✍🏻
Improve your ability to draw realistic and compelling creatures, as you challenge yourself to paint 5 monsters in 5 weeks with Hardy Fowler.
HOW TO JOIN THE CHALLENGE:
→ The weekly challenge will be posted every Wednesday at 11am (CT)
→ You have one week to finish the monster of the week
→ Post your painting to your gram and tag @hardy_digitalpaintingstudio
We’ll be hand selecting 5 artists (one each week) for an invitation only feedback & mentorship session with Hardy Fowler or enrollment in the DPS PRO or CORE course of your choice!
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PAINT YOUR WORLD
Hardy Fowler is a professional Digital Painter with work seen in productions for Disney, Games Workshop and Neon District among many others.
Hardy's online academy, Digital Painting Studio, teaches the master-level skills, process and mindset he's learned from decades of experience as a professional digital artist.
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→ www.artstation.com/hfowler
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As a fellow creature designer, I must say I'm addicted to this serie/challenge. Your content and knowledge is so valuable.
So glad to hear it. Thanks!
I've done a sea monster before, they're so fun to create. Watching this helped me understand where I can improve my art.
Cool! Glad it was helpful
I loved your videos on skillshare. Love the new DPS videos! You have such a nice voice and great taste in music, which makes watching these videos so enjoyable. Keep it up Mr. Fowler! You’re a great teacher!
That's awesome to hear! Thanks so much.
I absolutely love this challenge, I keep coming back to these videos to help myself out and get a little confidence boost. It would be great if you could explore a creature design that has plant growth, or other natural elements that don't involve skin and muscles, but are potentially growing out of it, and how to deliver that in an organic way. I haven't been able to find many resources on this. I'm really curious about how you'd treat that sort of materials with your style.
So glad you've been enjoying the series! Thanks for the suggestion. Unfortunately I have the last two painted already (not really plant based) but I'll remember this for future projects. I do have a few tricks for that type of creature.
@@fowlerillus Excited to see what you have in mind!
@@fowlerillus Oh yeah, creating believable plant-best hybrids is tough! I too would love to see how you‘d go about it! :D
I discovered this channel in my recommended and I do not regret clicking.
Thanks! Glad you like it.
Hardy, i love your art! Amazing, thanks for share.
Thank you so much 😀
I really, really love your rendering process. Have you ever considered doing a video more focused on your style of coloring and rendering a monster like that? I know that you have covered your rendering technique with basic shapes like spheres and boxes, but I feel like for beginners the jump from rendering a sphere to rendering an organic creature like this is very big and hard to process mentally. All the little muscle bumps and wrinkles and so on. I watch the speed painting and I try to process it - and while my brain sees it happening, it still feels like black voodoo magic to me.
Or have you done tutorials, which solely focus on the rendering of more complex, organic forms like this creature?
Thank you.
Thanks! I could definitely speak about that in future videos. Value edge control is the key to those realistic, organic looking values. Soft gradients but also stark, abrupt cuts from light to dark. It was such a lightbulb for me when I figured that out. I'll definitely put that on the list of upcoming videos. Thank you!
@@fowlerillus That is amazing. Thank you so much! I am looking forward to those topics.
I will also try to look up "value edge control" on Google. Maybe that's a whole thing in general I missed out on until now. But I think not? Because what's fascinating to me, is that you're the only person I ever saw how paints like that. It's a truly unique and fascinating painting process and it looks so fun.
LOVE it the Art
Thank you!
iam trying to figure out how you change the orange color to the white do you know what that setting or step is called?
Sure! That is a hue/saturation adjustment. I just hit command+U (or Image > Adjustments > Hue/Saturation) to bring up that editor. You can slide the hue, the saturation and the lightness to get pretty much any color that you want. Super handy.
Great art! Why do you use orange for sculpting values?
I have no idea why I do that! Haha. I started years ago for reasons that I can't remember and I just stuck with it. I like how the orange and cyan react to each other but it really has little impact on the colors of the final painting so it's pretty arbitrary.
@@fowlerillus Thanks for the reply, I appreciate it! I was thinking it was maybe due to photoshop struggling with colorizing transparent white without a value shift but it looks like you are working opaquely?
how to change color without mask .. if i used hue station its add new layer with mask i hate this :D
There is never just one way to do something with digital painting :) Hue saturation layer masks can definitely work too
Would deeply appreciate if u talk more about yourself in other videos so we can connect with you
Good to know. I'll try and work in more stuff about me in future videos. Thanks