Concept Art

Noobovich

Character Design: Narrative Illustration from Concept to Final

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Take your character designs to the next level by taking them off the white page, and building a deeper narrative for them through their environment, outfit, weapons, and overall design.


In this course I will go over my method of coming up with a narrative driven character concept; taking a slice of the story to help you present your characters in a fully detailed illustration.


The class will cover:

  • The planning and research phase. Collecting references, and starting concept sketches.
  • Character study and combining references for later details.
  • Sketching out the scene, and an overview of the photo texture I plan to use later on.
  • Inking the scene, and doing the flat color.
  • Building on top of the flat layers to create a quick color test, intro to photobashing, and adding textures to the image.
  • Planning the scene, and the first phase of rendering.
  • Organizing your folders, and using your photo textures to add details to your rendering.
  • Start with the main character and move to the background using the above method of photobashing and painting.
  • Final touches, and color adjustments to finalize the piece.

This course is for artists who are looking to make their work more interesting, and up their level of conceptualization. As well as an introduction to new tools; students will learn how to organize files, photobash, where to look for references and textures, and finally how to make it all fit in a single artwork.

By the end of the course the student will know how to design a character with an interesting backstory by world building, and creating solid concept foundations that will lead to a captivating illustration . The class will reveal the many tools illustrators use to build their scenes, from photobashing and adding textures, to creating your own objects and textures.


Curriculum

WELCOME

WELCOME

1. Meet Your Instructor: Noobovich!

10:34

2. Introduction to the course

17:03

1

Planning and research phase

1. Writing an idea brief

15:04

2. Reference resources and sites

19:45

3. Character Chart

02:53

4. Photoshop document setup and Brushes

20:19

5. Narratives to your sketches part 1

42:14

6. Narrative to sketching part 2

36:38

7. Narratives to your sketches part 3

34:58

8. Narratives to your sketches part 4

51:32

9. Homework

02:06

2

Character concept

1. Character Concept 01

11:34

2. Character Concept 02

22:46

3. Character Concept 03

09:31

4. Character Concept 04

25:14

5. Intro to Artbreeder

20:45

6. Applying Artbreeder

15:33

7. Character Concept 05

18:40

8. Flat Coloring

30:37

9. Enemies Design

14:13

10. Fairy Design

16:39

11. Finalizing the design

31:14

12. Homework

01:28

3

Sketching out the scene

1. Intro: References and objectives

17:44

2. Compositional sketching 01

31:44

3. Compositional sketching 02

26:18

4. Compositional sketching 03

34:42

5. Compositional sketching 04

18:50

6. Composition scale tool

20:56

7. Value Study

42:07

8. Homework

02:06

4

Intro to Daz3D

1. Introduction to Daz3D

17:37

2. Camera and Light

20:37

3. Posing the character

31:18

4. Homework

01:55

5

Inking and cleaning the drawing

1. Inking the Main Character

25:07

2. Inking the Fairy and the BG

13:35

3. Flat Colors

06:56

4. Homework

02:28

6

Photobashing

1. Underpaint

46:38

2. Intro to Photobashing

28:08

3. Intro to Photobashing 02

23:34

4. Planning Your Illustration

13:17

5. Foreground

10:06

6. Photobashing the Background 01

48:00

7. Photobashing the Background 02

05:34

7

Digital Painting 01 [Main Character]

1. Intro to Rendering

12:24

2. Head Rendering

49:22

3. Armor Rendering 01

15:06

4. Armor 02

20:43

5. Hammer

05:36

6. Waist

14:24

7. Thoughts and Homework

09:13

8

Digital Painting 02 [Other Elements]

1. Fairy

20:00

2. Undead Army References

04:44

3. Undead Rendering 01

16:03

4. Undead 02

14:29

5. Flying Skulls 01

16:10

6. Flying Skulls 02

06:23

7. Light Beams Rendering

07:19

9

Final Touches

1. Planning

07:32

2. The Final Touches

23:26

3. Adding Effects

14:54

4. Homework

02:15

OUTRO

OUTRO

1. Congrats on finishing the course!

06:45

Creator

Noobovich

Noobovich

Hello!

My name is Ibrahem Swaid, also known as NOOBOVICH. I am a working digital illustrator and concept artist with 10 years of experience. Along with personal projects, and ventures in teaching I have notable clients that include Capcom, Tencent, IDW, Boom Studios, Dire Wolf and Abrakam.


My artwork “Skating Giants” ranked 6th top digital illustration worldwide on Artstation for the year 2018. Although teaching is not my profession but I run a live critique on my twitch channel which gives me the chance to interact with aspiring artists and beginners and help them push to the next level. I also have 2 narrated tutorials on my portfolio that got a lot of praise where I go over my character rendering process step by step.

noobovich

noobovich
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