Concept Art & Digital Illustration Course
Develop your skills in concept art and illustration to pursue a career as a film and video game artist.
Top artists teach a concept art and illustration course.
With an industry specialist as your guide, you'll get expert career training.
Discover how to make highly polished art for the film, video game, and publishing sectors, and turn your creative abilities into a career.
Why should you learn concept art and illustration?
You'll receive hands-on experience developing intriguing ideas and narrative graphics for the entertainment business at our digital painting school. Learn how to work with client briefs and produce high-quality work that will have clients coming back for more.
You might opt to specialize in concept art or illustration after graduation and continue with the advanced course.
Discover how to make highly polished art for the film, video game, and publishing sectors, and turn your creative abilities into a career.
Why should you learn concept art and illustration?
- Learn how to make art for movies, video games, and books.
- Learn how to use Photoshop like a pro.
You'll receive hands-on experience developing intriguing ideas and narrative graphics for the entertainment business at our digital painting school. Learn how to work with client briefs and produce high-quality work that will have clients coming back for more.
You might opt to specialize in concept art or illustration after graduation and continue with the advanced course.
Skill level
Intermediate
Prerequisites
Minimum computer requirements and basic sketching skills
Included software
You may purchase a license Adobe Photoshop
We will teach you the fundamentals of digital painting.
Our digital painting programs can equip you with the newest skills utilized in the field, whether you're fresh out of high school, changing jobs, or upgrading your abilities.
Flexible SchedulingSchedule your classes around your employment and family obligations.
Tasks for practicsGet skills on how to work on big motion pictures and video games. as illustrator
Job-Ready CompetenciesDevelop the practical and relevant career abilities that studios want.
Plans for PaymentWith flexible payments, you may pursue your passion and begin working sooner.
curriculum
A program that has been authorized by the industry to get you started as a concept artist or illustrator.
Term 1:
FOUNDATIONS & ASSET DEVELOPMENT
Establish a firm grasp of color, value, and light before beginning your illustration and concept art for beginners course. Then, using perspective sketching and anatomy, you'll investigate how physical characteristics influence design decisions. Discuss the differences between indirect and direct design briefs, as well as how to generate concepts depending on the information you're provided. Use your new abilities to create a character, and learn how to polish and showcase your work properly.
- The employment of line, value, and color to effectively communicate
- The ideas of perspective are well-understood.
- Anatomy observation and practice are crucial.
- Workflow for Asset Production
- Getting Started with Line Drawing
- Values: An Overview
- Color & Colorization (Introduction)
- Drawing in Perspective: An Overview
- The Basics of Anatomy 01
- Anatomy 02: Introduction
- Gathering references and coming up with ideas
- Creating a Thumbnail
- Sketching
- Render, Value Mapping, and Clean Line
- Colorization
- Polishing
Term 2:
RENDERING TECHNIQUES & CHARACTER DRAWING
The concept art course's second term starts with teachings on how light and color influence mood before moving on to the production of styled materials and textures. You'll learn how to produce and exhibit beautiful work by developing a creative style and using life sketching and dynamic posing methods.
- Artistic styles must be defined, developed, and applied.
- Create digital items with a unique look.
- Make your artwork more interesting by adding depth and variety.
- Using professional drawing and rendering skills, you may increase your speed.
- 01: Light Theory
- 02: Light Theory
- Wedges - Material Render
- Asset Application - Material Render
- Sketching as part of iterative design
- Rendering Iterative Design
- Techniques for Life Drawing
- Application for Life Drawing
- Gesture and Line of Action in Dynamic Posing 1
- Cinematic posing (Dynamic Posing 2)
- Style 01 - Creating a Personality
- Render Aesthetic is the second style.
Term 3:
LAYOUT, LEVEL DESIGN & COMPOSITION
Start with perspective sketching to learn the principles of environment and set design: it's the key to making good concept art. Learn how to create matte paintings from scratch using photo-bashing methods and the paint-over approach to get lighting and perspective information from pre-rendered objects.
- Transform your ideas into eye-catching concept art.
- Create settings and sets for films and video games.
- Using smart compositing methods, you may speed up your production.
- To convey a narrative, frame and position your photos.
- 01 - Client Brief for Environment Design
- 02 - Client Brief for Environment Design
- Set Design 01: Rendering and Design
- Color 02: Set Design
- Concept Design is the first level in the game.
- Call Out is the second level in the game.
- Lines and Shapes - Basic Composition 1
- Light and Value - Basic Composition 2
- Armatures (Advanced Composition 01)
- Focal Points in Advanced Composition 02
- Types of Shots (Framing 01)
- Staging 02: Framing
FAQ
Do you have any questions? We've got the answers you're looking for.
Learn more about the course qualifications and the digital painting occupations you may want to pursue in the future. Visit our main FAQ page or email us if you have any general inquiries regarding studying at our school.
CONCEPT ART & ILLUSTRATION COURSE FAQS
You'll need basic computer skills and a computer that satisfies the minimal requirements for this course (see next question).
Software:
You may purchase a license Adobe Photoshop.
Hardware:
A graphics tablet and a computer that satisfies the minimum system requirements for Photoshop are required (see digital painting software and equipment).
You may purchase a license Adobe Photoshop.
Hardware:
A graphics tablet and a computer that satisfies the minimum system requirements for Photoshop are required (see digital painting software and equipment).
Digital painting may lead to a multitude of job opportunities in the entertainment business.
In a competitive industry, continuing your studies with the full concept art and digital illustration study pathway (the full Concept Art & Digital Illustration course and then specializing in either Advanced Concept Art or Advanced Digital Illustration) will better prepare you for a job in the industry and help increase your employment opportunities.
The advanced course covers more advanced skills and includes a full-term devoted to career development and portfolio preparation to help you become ready for the job market.
Following completion of the whole study track, you could be able to work as a junior digital painter in the following positions:
In a competitive industry, continuing your studies with the full concept art and digital illustration study pathway (the full Concept Art & Digital Illustration course and then specializing in either Advanced Concept Art or Advanced Digital Illustration) will better prepare you for a job in the industry and help increase your employment opportunities.
The advanced course covers more advanced skills and includes a full-term devoted to career development and portfolio preparation to help you become ready for the job market.
Following completion of the whole study track, you could be able to work as a junior digital painter in the following positions:
- Designer of Concepts
- Illustrator (Digital)
- Illustrator for comic books
- Illustrator for video games
- Illustrator for books
- Illustrator with Keyframes
- Designer of characters
- Designer of the environment
- Designer of Assets
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