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

How to Render Concept Art Part 4: Adding Color

Learn techniques of using colors in photoshop. Part 4

How To Render Concept Art Using Blending Modes: Part 2 Overlay Layer

This tutorial will teach you how to effectively use overlay layer in photoshop to add highlights to your drawings. Enjoy.

Care for some Pin Up Art?-Henning Ludvigsen

Henning Ludvigsen, teaches you how to create that old school Pin Up Art in this amazing tutorial. 26.41mb
pin up art by Henning Ludvigsen

Feathers and Angel Wings-Melanie Delon

Melanie Delon, is one amazing artist. She knows how to portray realism and that's what

I love when it comes to art. Check out this tutorial. 15.04mb

How to paint feathers and Angel Wings

Liberate Your Colours-Bao Pham

This tutorial has such beautiful colors done by Bao Pham. The clash of cools and warm colors are absolutely eye pleasing. You must get this downloaded. 15.24mb
Liberate your Colors

Illustrator JS Rossbach-Abstract Dragon

For those of you who feel like downloading this beautiful tutorial by JS Rossbach, feel free to do it. It's only 5.79mb and it's a PDF file. PDF reader can be downloaded at www.adobe.com
Imaginefx-abstract-dragon

Making of a Sci-Fi Character Concept / Illustration

Here is a nice tutorial on Sci-Fi character concept design. On that web site, You can also find tutorials such as: concept art, digital painting, figure drawing tutorials.

"This tutorial is a detailed, step by step walkthrough of my process in making a Sci-fi character concept / Illustration. This image was originally an assignment for a PC Gamer cover, which unfortunately never got used. The subject is a sexy Borg female. Since it was a cover assignment, I wanted to have some fun and do a little spoof on the famous Janet Jackson Rolling Stone cover.

This a very long and detailed workshop. It’s a also a Photoshop (PS) tour-de-force. Meaning, I wanted to pull out all the stops and use as much PS “tricks” and fx as possible. This is a special treat for those who want an insider look at how to leverage PS to quickly add a professional looking finish.

I often use this same approach for creating concept art, and the techniques can also be applied to texture mapping. There’s a lot of content here, and we’ve got a lot to talk about, so let’s get right into it"...

Sci-Fi Character Concept/Illustration Tutorial

Concept Aircraft & Environment by Sketchbook

This guy will show you his way of creating concept environment as well as how to draw fighter jet. He gives out the reasons why he starts with background first and then moves to the main subject of his art. Nice concept art-environment, check it out.  Privateers tutorial.

Human Skin tone coloring tutorial in Pinter by Even Michelsen

Coloring human skin traditionally or digitally can be a hastle. Lot of upcoming artists create nice pieces of art but lack understanding of which colors to choose and how to impliment them successfully in their portraits, character designs and so on. Hopefully this tutorial will help many of us that share the same problem.

Skin Tone coloring by Even Michelsen