BECOME A BETTER CONCEPT ARTIST

I love everything connected to the crafting of groundbreaking imagery, and I’m always ready to venture into new visual horizons. I’ve always been passionate about coming up with new digital techniques, and pioneered the use of complex brushes and custom shapes in 2005 and 2010 respectively, as well as venturing into new territories with virtual reality painting experiments through Tilt Brush and Quill.

For this workshop, I’ll explain how taking a minimalist approach to a concept art task emphasises the real-life aspects of the scene. In this painting, which took about four hours to complete, I was keen not to overdo it in terms of sky, details, complexity and number of planes.

Over the coming pages, I’ll show you my technique for adding texture with a specific use of Photoshop’s Magic Wand tool; used custom brushes to quickly develop an environment (these brushes are