Hello and welcome to this Online Training Course for Character Concept Art – Natalia
Character concept art is the starting process for today’s standard in gathering and defining an idea for games, movies, and television. In this series, we go through and concept the character Natalia, the Russian rebel and take each step through an in-depth look at it’s creation. Through this course, Tim Von Rueden will give you a complete run-through on how to create and concept a character out in Photoshop CS5 using a Wacom Intuos4 tablet.
To gain access to this course you can signup as a Citizen member of the CG Cookie network for just $10 USD per month. This is an incredible deal, the course contains over seven hours of training; covering silhouette, anatomy, lighting, color, drawing the head, each of the facial features, hair, cloth, leather, metal, and posting it off. You can sign up for a Citizen account from our membership page HERE.
As a Citizen member you get access to the complete streaming course, including all project files and the ability to download each individual video. To make this series more accessible you now choose to either stream or download any of the videos. To stream the videos, simply click on the thumbnail for that portion and it will automatically load at the top of the page.
What you’ll learn in this course
In the duration of this course you will be taken through the entirety of a character creation process. This includes all the pre-production work that often goes overlooked such as gathering references, setting your layout, and a look at picking out your colors to compliment each other and lighting your scene. When it comes to drawing this series covers the human aspects such as the silhouette process, refining the anatomy, rendering skin using the pre-packed brushes, shaping out the head from any angle, taking an in-depth look and focus on the facial features from the eyes, the nose, the mouth, and the hair. Then we go through the materials included with a leather jacket, jeans, boots, metal, jewelry, tattoos, gloves. Then to polish it off I add a rim light and bring it all together with a background. I hope you enjoy and learn how to use this to create your own character concept art!
Note: the first three videos, and the introduction and freely available for anyone to view to help give you a better preview of the course Enjoy!
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Anatomy Refinement
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(18:35)
Lighting the Character
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(11:13)
Choosing Colors
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(20:10)
Drawing Skin
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(32:35)
Drawing and Constructing the Head
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(24:57)
The Eyes
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(38:26)
The Nose
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(12:17)
The Mouth
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(18:31)
The Ears and Replacement
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(13:35)
The Red Leather Jacket
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(38:40)
Drawing the Hair
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(33:41)
The Pants and Gloves
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(44:50)
The Boots and Straps
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(31:03)
Accessories
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(30:42)
Refinements and Polish
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(38:31)
Hello everyone,
i don’t have photoshop
so i want to know if it’s possible
to use photoshop elements to
make only digital painting.
Thanks.
youtube will tell you how to get it (wink wink)
Is it a huge stretch to use GIMP instead of PS? I mean, are you using any PS functions that don’t have a GIMP equivalent?
I’d hate to get halfway through and find out I can’t replicate the result because of any special reliance on PS exclusive functions.
Thanks! Becoming citizen is the best $25 I’ve ever spent since that Thai restaurant down the street closed.
Had to make a second comment because i forgot to check off “notify me by email”
cheers
While I myself use PS (since I started with it over a decade ago) GIMP is quite powerful and other than how things are organized it and Photoshop can do just about anything the other can. As for work like Tim is doing, all you need is the most basic of brushes, layers, and some distortion tools (which I believe GIMP has as well)
I’ve played with GIMP a little here and there, and really like it. It’s always come down to being more familiar with PS and nothing to do with which is better or worse.
Some genuinely great posts on this site, regards for contribution. A Celebration of Man’s Best Friend http://blog.claytonstudio.com/2012/12/14/architectural-photography-of-the-chass-center-in-detroit.aspx#AddComment
I am really enjoying this tutorial series; very informative. It would be great to have a citizen course on light and materials that sort of builds off of the value building lesson (great) and this. Keep up the good work, Tim!
This have subtitles?
It’s hard for me to understand spoken English.
Looking a long time for video lessons with subtitles but never find anything…
No, unfortunately, this currently does not support subtitles.