Having just wrapped up our booth at the Nanyang Education Fair 2008, I’m back at office and it feels like the weekend. =_=. It was heckuva tiring but it was worth it. Over at the fair, I and Gianne were supposed to do demonstrations with an industry concept artist. His work reminded me of how much further I’ve got to go before even reaching the first rest-stop.
He left a few pointers which really made sense so here’s a quicksketch session to put what he showed me to practice. I realize a big difference with watching an online tutorial and being told in person is, I usually don’t grasp what the online tutorial shows me. At times, after watching and assuming I’ve figured out the concept behind the technique, I revert back to my old ways after awhile.
Here I’m trying to put what I learned from the concept artist together with my usual style. I guess I can’t do it fully his way so I’ll just have to improvise.
Demon Monkey-God
I also learned the difference between Concept Art and Production Art, where Concept Art has to be fast and used to explore ideas and variations. Production Art however is a more finished work of art for the production team to work from. I guess the next step after that would be the Promotional Art, where its just gotta look good to sell.
Of course this is just my opinion.
Also congratulations to two of my students for winning consolation prizes in the above 18 category of the Gimli Character Concept Competition. Good job!