Painting Concept Art Environments with Atmosphere

Concept Art Tutorial: Painting Environments
Concept Art Focus: Landscapes
Concept Artists are visual storytellers. We have the power to communicate vast amounts of information in the details of our paintings-ultimately engineering the way that our audience thinks, feels and experiences our work.
Landscapes and environments are powerful vehicles for conveying mood and tone, and also at hinting at where our characters are at in the storyline.
When it comes to creating atmosphere and mood: colour and light are everything. Step inside my process as I balance warm and cool colours, and use light in dramatic ways to engineer this environment to serve the storyline.
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Hardy Fowler is a professional Digital Painter with work seen in productions for Disney, Games Workshop and Neon District among many others.
Hardy's online academy, Digital Painting Studio, teaches the master-level skills, process and mindset he's learned from decades of experience as a professional digital artist.
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  • @Zarzar22
    @Zarzar22 Жыл бұрын

    These videos are priceless for me. Cant believe this is free content man, great work

  • @fowlerillus

    @fowlerillus

    Жыл бұрын

    Glad you enjoy it!

  • @snowxuedietrich8456
    @snowxuedietrich84562 жыл бұрын

    This is so nice to watch, very inspiring. It gives me the feeling of the ocean planet Caladan. 👍 looking forward to the next video. Thanks again, Snow

  • @fowlerillus

    @fowlerillus

    2 жыл бұрын

    Glad you enjoyed it!

  • @digitaleveTTV
    @digitaleveTTV3 ай бұрын

    these are carrying me through art school! how is this free?! amazing work :D

  • @fowlerillus

    @fowlerillus

    3 ай бұрын

    I'm so glad these have been helpful! :)

  • @bbrother92

    @bbrother92

    13 күн бұрын

    @@fowlerillus how much spent in real time?

  • @remotecabinstudios
    @remotecabinstudios2 жыл бұрын

    The music really makes this video epic, peaceful yet inspiring.

  • @fowlerillus

    @fowlerillus

    2 жыл бұрын

    Thanks! That's definitely the vibe I'm hoping for. Glad you liked it.

  • @michaelrasmussen1342
    @michaelrasmussen13422 жыл бұрын

    That was, hands down, the most impressive display of environmental creativity that I’ve seen recorded. Remarkably enough as much as I’d love to see it done in real time, the time lapse added to the experience of seeing your creative process as you experimented. I guess my biggest question is this: at what point do you make the decision? When do you say, “there it is… that’s the horizon I want.” And then move on to the grass or the ships or the birds, or whatever. I feel like that’s the judgment call of someone who is absolutely confident in their decision making abilities. And that’s what I truly hope to learn. Thanks again!

  • @fowlerillus

    @fowlerillus

    2 жыл бұрын

    Wow, thanks Michael! I'm glad you liked it. Actually, those decisions are usually made very early in the process while I'm just looking at a perspective grid trying to visualize things. The vantage point and "camera" angle that we choose can have a big impact on how the image feels overall so these early decisions really lay the foundation for the whole painting.

  • @jayta906
    @jayta9062 жыл бұрын

    This is AWESOME man, its cool to see your your style has evolved a bit over the last couple years. You seem really comfortable and confident with this more painterly style and it really shows with your brushwork

  • @fowlerillus

    @fowlerillus

    2 жыл бұрын

    Thanks! Glad to hear it

  • @Raygaldhd
    @Raygaldhd Жыл бұрын

    Woow cool

  • @fowlerillus

    @fowlerillus

    Жыл бұрын

    Thanks!

  • @loozerzart9109
    @loozerzart91092 жыл бұрын

    I really love the sense of overall lighting here I mean it has more of a natural or so as to say a surrealistic wibe... and the color scheme is way too natural looking just like in real world ... I'm learning a lot from you HARDY! 🙏🏻❤ I still struggle with bringing perspective in blockout/ silhouette stage .... I still lag putting depth and mood in my greyscale silhouettes ... soon I'll upload some of my work in our academy qna😇

  • @fowlerillus

    @fowlerillus

    2 жыл бұрын

    That's definitely something we can work on. I've got some tips that can really help

  • @xxmegazocker9894
    @xxmegazocker9894 Жыл бұрын

    Im a little late to the party but man, its a shame how little exposure your videos receive. KZread brought me to you on multiple occasions, im glad it did. Hope to learn alot from you in the future!

  • @fowlerillus

    @fowlerillus

    Жыл бұрын

    That's awesome! Thanks for the support.

  • @SpiderThoughts
    @SpiderThoughts2 жыл бұрын

    Great video and beautiful final product too! I’m feeling inspired now after watching that swooping top down view being created

  • @fowlerillus

    @fowlerillus

    2 жыл бұрын

    Thanks Josh!

  • @user-ii5sk3no4q
    @user-ii5sk3no4q2 жыл бұрын

    Awesome painting process! Great mood! Thanks for a video!

  • @fowlerillus

    @fowlerillus

    2 жыл бұрын

    Thank you! Cheers!

  • @ypesie
    @ypesie Жыл бұрын

    I’m not sure if you’ll see this,I am totally addicted to your channel at the moment. But I’m just curious about the perspective grid you’re using in the beginning of the piece, have you made it yourself or how do you get one of those? Keep it up!

  • @fowlerillus

    @fowlerillus

    Жыл бұрын

    So glad you're enjoying the channel! I made that perspective grid myself. The vanishing point axis was just make a bunch of straight lines converging on one point. If you disable size jitter and hold down shift you can make straight lines with the brush tool. You can also do this easily with the symmetry tool set to radial. The others were just arrays of straight lines that I distorted a bit to pinch to one side or the top. I hope that's helpful!

  • @matrix_coding9050
    @matrix_coding90502 жыл бұрын

    This is certainly amazing, love your work

  • @fowlerillus

    @fowlerillus

    2 жыл бұрын

    Thank you very much!

  • @lavatun
    @lavatunАй бұрын

    LISAN AL GHA'IB. . . .

  • @fowlerillus

    @fowlerillus

    Ай бұрын

    Spice must flow

  • @randyruedisueli7470
    @randyruedisueli74702 жыл бұрын

    You’re killing it lately man! Another awesome, inspiring video. I’ll also need a link to wherever you’re getting your music from. 😁

  • @fowlerillus

    @fowlerillus

    2 жыл бұрын

    Thanks Randy! These tracks come from Audiio.com. They have great stuff!

  • @MercerSynthAI
    @MercerSynthAI2 жыл бұрын

    Amazing

  • @fowlerillus

    @fowlerillus

    2 жыл бұрын

    Thanks! I'm glad you liked it

  • @ardelaflor
    @ardelaflor2 жыл бұрын

    Really great video Hardy!

  • @fowlerillus

    @fowlerillus

    2 жыл бұрын

    Glad you enjoyed it!

  • @pl2996
    @pl29962 жыл бұрын

    great job!

  • @fowlerillus

    @fowlerillus

    2 жыл бұрын

    Thank you! Cheers!

  • @HazedShaman
    @HazedShaman2 жыл бұрын

    Fantastic inspiration video as per usual Hardy, on a side note you sound like your a little sick. Or were sick and are coming off it. Love your videos!

  • @fowlerillus

    @fowlerillus

    2 жыл бұрын

    Thanks! Glad you liked it. Wow, good ear - I definitely had a cold when this was recorded.

  • @jubler5849
    @jubler58492 жыл бұрын

    Its beautiful❤️❤️❤️ Can you make another organic creature artwork??

  • @fowlerillus

    @fowlerillus

    2 жыл бұрын

    Thanks! Actually, that's exactly what I was thinking about tackling next. Glad to hear that you would be interested.

  • @xKessa
    @xKessa2 жыл бұрын

    Beautiful

  • @fowlerillus

    @fowlerillus

    2 жыл бұрын

    Thank you! Cheers!

  • @rlopez7016
    @rlopez70168 ай бұрын

    Question: In a production setting, would environmental art come after concept art? - I think it should but I am guessing as I am yet to land my first gig 😁

  • @fowlerillus

    @fowlerillus

    8 ай бұрын

    Great question and I think that definitions of concept art can be blurred. This painting is more of a full production painting or a key shot which I still technically consider concept art. BUT in a production setting, I would do several very rough sketches or tonal passes (sort of like you see early in this painting) just to get the idea nailed down and then if my art director likes a particular rough concept, I'll carry that forward to a more finished painting like this. It's usually a very iterative process (so be sure to bill hourly :) Good luck getting that first gig!

  • @gregent61
    @gregent615 ай бұрын

    Hi im just wondering what the reason for flipping the image is for, i notice a few people doing it? Thanks

  • @fowlerillus

    @fowlerillus

    5 ай бұрын

    That can be really useful for a few reasons. The main one is that it makes the image feel new again. It's like you're seeing it with fresh eyes. It helps you not feel stuck and it can make mistakes or strangeness really pop out so that you can fix it. It's great when something feels not quite right (but you're not sure why). When you flip the canvas, those things are suddenly very apparent. It also can make things easier on your wrist. There are certain diagonal marks that are really hard for your wrist to do, but if you flip the canvas, they become much easier. I actually made a custom keyboard shortcut just for this which I highly recommend.

  • @Elizeus99
    @Elizeus99 Жыл бұрын

    Heyhardy, Where did you get your perspective grid?

  • @fowlerillus

    @fowlerillus

    Жыл бұрын

    Hey! I made this one myself with a few layers. I turn off shape dynamics and hold down shift to click out the vanishing point axis. The others are just arrays of straight, parallel lines that I distort as a group

  • @Elizeus99

    @Elizeus99

    Жыл бұрын

    @@fowlerillus Alright that’s useful, Thank You!

  • @hakanerozkantattoo
    @hakanerozkantattoo2 жыл бұрын

    Hey did you stop using custom shapes ?? :)

  • @fowlerillus

    @fowlerillus

    2 жыл бұрын

    I haven't stopped but I'm trying to work on other techniques to be a bit looser and more expressive. Custom shapes are incredibly powerful though, I'll definitely continue to use them