Books you should get to improve!-Concept Art

Concept Art: Portrait drawing is important. Here is why, while learning how to do portraits, you will also learn the correct facial anatomy and proportions as well. You can kill 2 birds with one stone, so to speak.

Light and Color-Tutorial

Hey guys, this post is one the most important ones if you really want to become a successful concept artist or any other artist at that. No matter how detailed your illustrations or concepts are, they are not going to look realistic without knowing how to properly introduce light that makes every painting look real. When it comes to color, well, you can't successfully add interest nor can you guide the eye of a viewer if you don't have good understanding of the color theory and how it works. These 2 are very important and also hard skills to master. If you become successful in these 2, your art work will improve drastically and get you ahead of others by far.
light and color-tutorial

Modeling Hands by Steven Stahlberg

Many start up artists as well as advanced have problems drawing hands. This short modeling hands tutorial by Steven Stahlber will help you to imrove your hand drawing ability.

"To improve modeling you need to look at the real thing, I've found the best references here.

Some quick notes that might be helpful for beginners modeling hands..."
To read the full tutorial click here.

Ron Lemen: Constructing the Human Head

Great tutorial on drawing human head. A lot of in depth explanations how to and where to position facial features when you are constructing human head. This tutorial will help you improve your head anatomy drawing skills.
Tutorial by Ron Lemen.
"Step 1. This is the biggy.  This step dictates the entire head drawing, and or pose for that matter if you are attaching an entire body to this.  Start with a sphere, freehand will do, so long as it reads as a ball.  You are going to divide the sphere into halves, then fourths.  There will be 8 sections total..." 
To read more:
http://www.anticz.com/heads.htm

Sketching and Inking by Chelsea Brown

step 1:

"The firs thing you'll need is a sketch. Make sure you do it in pencil. It doesn't matter how neat it is since you're going to ink over it and erase it later. Just make it as neat as you need it to be to know what lines you'll be inking over. Make sure you sketch light enough that you'll be able to completely erase the lines once you're 

finished inking."


Step 2:
Now it's time to ink! Select your favorite inking pens and carefully go over the lines you wish to keep. Inking left to right if you're right-handed, or right to left if you're left-handed might be a good idea to avoid smearing your lines. If you make a mistake, don't worry! You'll be able to fix it once we've scanned the drawing into Photoshop.

                                                               
Step 3: 

"Once your inking is completely dry, you can erase your sketch. You may find there are small areas where you made mistakes. Again, don't worry, you'll fix this in a moment."

Tutorial by Chelsea Brown
www.chelseabrown.net