Digital Creations

Concept Art & Effects with Photoshop

Last updated 2022-01-10 | 4.5

- Paint realistic objects & effects commonly found in concept art and video game illustrations.
- Break into an exciting and growing digital art marketplace.
- Create amazing digital environment paintings with Adobe Photoshop! Break into an exciting and growing digital art marketplace. Focus their imaginations into an easy-to-follow process that yields amazing results.

What you'll learn

Paint realistic objects & effects commonly found in concept art and video game illustrations.

Break into an exciting and growing digital art marketplace.

Create amazing digital environment paintings with Adobe Photoshop! Break into an exciting and growing digital art marketplace. Focus their imaginations into an easy-to-follow process that yields amazing results.

* Requirements

* Photoshop and a pen tablet (Wacom Intuos 3 recommended) along with a creative spirit are all that is needed.
* A general understanding of art fundamentals and a basic knowledge of Photoshop is recommended. We offer FREE courses on both!

Description

Digital Creations: Concept Art Objects & Effects with Photoshop

If you are a student with plans to enter the field of conceptual art and illustration or already work in the business but want to learn an exciting way to build a strong client base and improve workflow, this course is perfect. However, the course is also beneficial for virtually anyone interested in painting cool armor and weapons on the computer.

How to Transform the Ordinary into Something Extraordinary with Digital Painting

Master key elements of art and illustration

Understand how to stand apart from the competition

Benefit from basic and sidebar methodologies

Optimize existing or gain new knowledge

Content and Overview

By applying everything learned in this course, you have incredible opportunities to work within multiple industries, including film, video game, print and fine art to name a few. Digital art is used in the conceptualization of environments seen in blockbuster films and video games.

Other courses tend to skip critical steps or gloss over information, but with this digital painting course, everything you need to get started is provided. This course will take you through the process of creating believable and compelling concept art objects step-by-step using Adobe Photoshop.

Simple Exercises - we will learn the basics of rendering metal, wood, "jewels" and glass containers. All skills that every concept artist must master in order to create professional level weapons & armor concept art.

Full Scale Projects - we will apply what was learned in the exercises to three simulated real world assignments. Students can choose to render a suit of armor, a pistol or a sword (or try all three!)

Special Effects - we will learn to render realistic magical effects such as smoke, fire and lightning.

After completing this course using Adobe Photoshop, you will have the ability to render these commonly sought after assets with confidence and ease.

Who this course is for:

This digital art class is perfect for beginners seeking to break into the digital art field.
Novices and even professionals will also benefit a great deal from this class. Refine your methods and increase the marketability of your work. Level up!

Course content

4 sections • 10 lectures

Introduction & Basic Setup 2 lectures

Introduction & Course Overview Preview 00:46

This lecture gives a very general overview of the course and outlines what will be covered.

Equipment & Basic Setup Preview 02:13

In this lecture, we discuss equipment requirements and basic setup. The brushes that I use are available for download as an .abr file.

Simple Exercises 4 lectures

Rendering Metal 1 - General Rendering Preview 06:21

In this lecture, we will begin rendering some simple geometric shapes so that they look like believable metal. We will discuss the shiny luster of metal and how to apply highlights, core shadow and reflected lights to make it believable.

Rendering Metal 2 - Adding Interest Preview 05:24

In this lecture, we will add some finer detail to our metal object rendering exercise. These will include seams, scratches, rivets and rolled edges.

Rendering Wood Preview 04:19

In this lecture, we will learn a very fast and easy technique for rendering realistic wood grain.

Rendering Jewels & Glass Containers Preview 10:12

In this lecture, we will learn how to render realistic looking glass jewels and glass containers. Special highlights will be used to add additional realism.