A Journey to Concept Art

Face Drawing Exercise As part of the skills task we were assigned to draw a fast portrait using guidelines. I used a B pencil on an A5 sketchbook page. Portraits and anatomy will be a big part of concept art, however i think the usage of guidelines are not necessarly useful.  I much more prefer loose sketching as it gives a lot more freedom to the artist to create more interesting shapes, embrace the assimetry, give expression and so on. Body Drawing Exercise   I ended up not using the line properly and the result was stiff, the proportions were off and it just looks odd and unbalanced.

 What do i know about Concept Art In concept art I should be focusing on the visual idea generation. In concept art the goal is usually not the create the most rendered pieces or the more finalised product, but, creating the start to it all. Setting the mood, sketching the environment, shaping out the characters, and how to create a visually understandable and pleasing story just by the props and actions. To excel at concept art, I need to learn how to massively produce ideas and discard old ones. I think a great mindset is to not get attached to drawings as usually only about 20% to 40% of a concept artists work is used into the making of the final product. I need to study more the shape, anatomy, perspective, colour theory, better line-art, and some other things along the way. By studying concept art, I can get such jobs as 2d game artist, concept artist for companies such as film making and other media and occasionally, I have seen concept artists going for illustration. But...