Visual Art Werks was once again in the building, Building C of the Georgia World Congress Center for DREAMHACK 2023.
This time DTM got a chance to share his creative process when creating digital art for games including characters, elements, objects and assets. Met a lot of cool people, said hi to folks I knew already and had an overall amazing experience. Plus I learned a lot just by hanging out at some of the panels and listening to the experience and advice of veteran and newcomers.
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In this workshop I will show you how to create animation and game art from a sketch to finished illustration with the most popular apps available for professionals. This session is for anyone starting their digital art journey creating 2D art for comics, character art and game assets. Character Concept Process
The Inspiration
Exploring Character Art Styles. El Azteca Moderno - Frank aka Tenuch
My creative process starts with sketching in Adobe Fresco with pencil brushes. Sketching is especially important when the character doesn't yet exist as an image. All of these sketches were drawn with Adobe Fresco. In this example with El Azteca Moderno, I want to capture the image of a young adult/late teen character on a quest. We see lots of sketches exploring different art styles, body types, and elements that make the character recognizable in the story plus fit two different mediums, comics and gaming!
Time for some ink, nope, not yet!
Once we have a style that fits our story and character, we are ready for inking with vector brushes. The first image shows where we settled on the art style, the details and the features that reflect the young adult/late teen age. Just when you think you are ready for the next step, a new ideas comes along and now I need to draw that instead! And so the process starts again, blue sketches were drawn on Sketchable App on Surface Book 2.
Let the inking and colors begin!
My character art influences started with comics, so most of my character art has an outline for the clothing, gear, character elements and details. Sometimes I create art without outlines or very little linework and that depends on the storyline mood and project requirements.
LIVE DRAWING VECTOR ART HERE Coloring Techniques in Adobe Fresco with Vector Brushes. Livestream series: Sketch To Vector for reference on Behance and YouTube. www.behance.net/gallery/152434637/SKETCH-TO-VECTOR
GAME ASSETS - Art Life The Game
Sketching the story, backgrounds, characters and elements
Denominator - Gorilla Character
Vector Art
Animation - in Game Character Movement
Animation Tests
The Comic
App Workflow - Adobe Apps Sketching in Fresco and Photoshop Vector in Fresco and Illustrator Adobe App Alternatives Pixel Apps for sketching and drawing - concepts Vector Apps for svg and vector assets - game art product List of apps I have used so far: https://www.vectormaestros.com/vector-apps.html Get in touch and follow DTM Contact Form Follow on IG Games and Art By DTM Weekly Livestreams on Behance Sketch to Vector Playlist on YouTube
The Bootcamp Sessions are 4 hours of Adobe Illustrator tools, resources and app alternatives. Bring your device, whatever you have available to you, we will learn the process and workflow to create!
A computer and internet connection is required. All sessions will be held online at our discord. Discord link: https://discord.gg/Aztw26azaZ A recording of the session will be available to download and rewatch forever. Email DTM for questions and to Book Your Sessions: [email protected] |
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