Concept Cookie Update: June

by Tim Von Rueden

Hello and welcome to this Concept Cookie update for the month of June, the beginning of summer has begun!

Now before I get started in the update, I thought I would show how I go about creating these monthly update banners. Check it out below!

June Monthly Banner Timelapse:

Total Time: 25 minutes

Software: Photoshop

Song: summer day by nabh24 - jamendo.com/en/track/858307/summer-day

What’s going on with the tutorials?

While it will be nice to get outside and enjoy the sun and beach, I am also focusing this month on working on what many of the community members have been requesting, which are the Introduction Tutorials and the Fundamentals series.

I am planning to split the fundamental series into 5 parts:

1. Drawing – This will cover the principals of drawing and more than anything, drawing with a tablet. I hope to cover line weights, pressure, and opacity alongside drawing basics like seeing form in everything and how to capture that with a sense of space and shape.

2. Perspective – This will cover  working with perspective, from a 2 to 3 point or having an extreme PoV. Overall coverage of how perspective is so important in your pieces, even with character concepts.

3. Lighting/Shading – This will cover an introduction to lighting and how that directly affects shading. I believe lighting is important enough to have an entire training series on it, so this will be a great start for learning how to shade and blend correctly with lighting in mind.

4. Color – After lighting, color plays a crucially important role. So this will cover an introduction to using color and some tips and tricks on how to use them. This won’t be a “guide to learning what hue 18 is” but rather explain important key words that are associated with color such as chroma/saturation, complimentary,warm/cool, highlights, etc.

5. Anatomy – After the above fundamentals I will look into a more focused topic such as anatomy. There is so much to learn and study with anatomy and we will take an artists insight into how to treat anatomy. I will focus on this section later on.

Whats new at the Studio?

The cookie crew is staying incredible busy but we wouldn’t have it any other way :D

Eat Sheep is wrapping up, I have almost finished all the artwork that was on my list and I am excited and proud to show it when we finally release it!

What’s going on with the site?

  • The site is getting ready for the new sections and will hopefully see some of the new layout changes to some of the pages as well.
  • After the fundamental videos are up and live I want to then focus my attention on creating a section for resources that will include brushes, references, turnarounds, and textures.
  • The banners are going out to the beach to enjoy the sunny weather

Thanks for checking out this update, Put your comments or questions in the section below ↓

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Again, thanks for continuing to make the site such a fun one to manage and I’m glad to see all the feedback and helpful tips the community is offering.

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Discussion

12 Responses to “Concept Cookie Update: June”
  1. Andrew Krypel
    Posts: 16

    You should’ve played Sigur Ros!

    Keep it up, Tim.

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     Jun 1, 2012 at 2:53 pm
    • Tim Von Rueden
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      Trust me I would if i could for every time-lapse but with copyright infringement, I have to be careful :)

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       Jun 4, 2012 at 10:35 am
  2. oldman44
    Posts: 70

    Tim,

    Looking forward to the upcoming tutorials, just what the doctor ordered for all of us budding artists (that is if you can be called a “budding” anything at 68 LOL).

    Loved how you developed the June Banner. You gave me the beginning of an idea of how to modify my Diablo III banner.

    -OldMan44

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     Jun 2, 2012 at 2:29 am
  3. Tom G
    Posts: 27

    When you added all the small rocks near the end, a box opended up which seemed to add shadows to them. What box was that? thanks :D

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     Jun 3, 2012 at 9:50 am
    • Tim Von Rueden
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      The box was a layer style option editing box. Which can be found on the bottom of the layer menu under “fx” then I checked the “drop shadow” option and played with the settings in there to give a quick shadow to each of those smaller rocks without having to individually draw a shadow for each. All just little tricks to help save you some time :D

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       Jun 4, 2012 at 11:16 am
  4. Tom G
    Posts: 27

    Do you think you could ever do an underwater monster tutorial? You know, like the ones where there is a huge sea creature and a single diver? Ive tried but never can succeed :(

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     Jun 12, 2012 at 9:28 am
    • Tim Von Rueden
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      Yea I will add that one to the list of to-dos, I have always wanted to do a creature with some nice translucency to it, and I think this would be the perfect opportunity for it!

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       Jun 13, 2012 at 5:05 pm
  5. Chip
    Posts: 4

    Will you teach how to blend colours?

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     Jun 19, 2012 at 1:58 pm
  6. thelemic
    Posts: 1

    Cool:o Great to see that they will be split into different series:P I’m a newbie so I’ll probably only watch the drawing part:P Very nice picture by the way and thank you for the awesome tutorials, Tim:D.

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     Feb 13, 2013 at 10:08 am

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