"What is the purpose of concept art for games?"
Art requires much practice and thought before a final design output can be created. Many variants, scraped ideas and and even full re-design is required before an artist can be happy with his work and is able to Display/present it to business partners or the public. This is even more true in concept art for video games, where the artist is required to produce artworks that not only they are pleased with but, the development team or the modelling team are happy to develop and create as well. it's only when all these elements are completed and approved that final 2D or 3D rendered characters can be created and the artists work is complete. The purpose for concept art in video games is this initial build up of several ideas and re designs to create a final concept that the development team can take to the next stage.
Of course concept art is not only a 21st century practice, many artists, architects and designers have relied upon concept art as an initial idea and a reference for future development. Be it Nicola Tesla and his design sketches/blueprints to Leonardo and his artworks and designs for paintings and sculptures. From these artist/designers, modern day artists have been able and study their works for better understanding into depth, perspective, detail e.t.c in portraits and landscapes and this of course is then carried on over in gaming concept art for characters and enviroments
Of course concept art is not only a 21st century practice, many artists, architects and designers have relied upon concept art as an initial idea and a reference for future development. Be it Nicola Tesla and his design sketches/blueprints to Leonardo and his artworks and designs for paintings and sculptures. From these artist/designers, modern day artists have been able and study their works for better understanding into depth, perspective, detail e.t.c in portraits and landscapes and this of course is then carried on over in gaming concept art for characters and enviroments
Bjorn Hurri
Bjorn Hurri, known for his speed and imagination Bjorn Hurri is a very talented sketcher, illustrator and is a well respected concept artist. Born in Sweden, Bjorn relocated to London and established a highly succesful career as a senior concept artist in just three years, In this time Bjorn Hurri has worked with many publications gaining a wide array of experience. These include ImagineFX, 3D total Magazine, Advanced Photoshop Magazine, Erotic Fantasy art by ILEX publishing, Shadow Run: 20th anniversary edition SEGA and others. whilst working for several years on a number of AAA titles before joining Opus Artz as our Lead Artist some of the well known games he has worked on include: Infamous 2, Sniper Ghost Warrior 2, Dead space 2, Bioshock Infinite, Dr.Who: The gunpowder plot, Spec Ops: The Line, Dishonoured, Army of Two: Devil’s Cartel, The Other Brothers and many others. He works in all fileds of concept art and is abled to design characters, props and environments with talent and ease.
Refference:
http://www.bjornhurri.com/about/
Wayne Barlowe
Wayne Barlowe is an extremely talented, surrealist, gothic horror and sci-fi based concept artis who has worked on giant blockbusters such as Avatar, Hellboy and the video game Dante's inferno which is an incredibly beautifully detailed game. He is also a illustrator and has made over 300 book and magazine covers. he has come from an artistic background, his parents Sy and Dorothea Barlowe, were both natural history artists. He has two daughters, Cayley and Hillary. He was married to Laura Hansen Barlowe in 2013.
Daigo Ikeno
Daigo Ikeno is one of the concept artists for Capcom and as such has worked on some of the huge titles ever realised by the giant game company. These include the street fighter and Devil May Cry series which have gone world wide known games. Daigo Ikeno is a well known character designer & illustrator for Capcom Japan. He's best known for his work on Street Fighter 3: Third Strike, Capcom VS SNK 2, Devil May Cry 3, Dead Rising, Onimusha 2 and is the lead artist forStreet Fighter IV and Super Street Fighter IV!
Carravagio
Michelangelo Merisi, da Caravaggio born 29 September 1571 – 18 July 1610 was an Italian artistactive in Rome, Naples, Malta, and Sicily between 1592 and 1610. His paintings, which combine a realistic observation of the human state, both physical and emotional, with a dramatic use of lighting, had a formative influence on Baroque painting.
Drawing anatomy/skeleton bodies in motion
Bellow are many concept and anatomy drawings
These drawings show movement in the human form from basic skeleton/stick man drawings i made while at the dance studio and while making poses in class. I feel it worked well removing all the fleshy details allows you to see how the skeleton is built and where the motion is flowing which i found really rewarding/effective.
these are some drawings where life is given to inanimate objects in a animated and lifey style that represents the personalities of the objects e.g a light bulb having a constant headache, some
similarities to this can be found in the T.V show ooglies
These are some basic face sketches drawn in different techniques and different positions e.g. profile this helped me practise drawing in different styles which opened up different ideas for drawing faces completely which helped me in future development
these are some one and two point perspective drawings that I practiced with and believe I got better as time went on as it was difficult in some respects but rewarding in others as it aloud me to draw more accurately
the following are object/still life drawings that helped practise drawing shapes, scale and positioning
Frank Quitely
Frank Quitely was born 1968, better known by the pen name, his real name us Vincent Deighan and he works as a Scottish comic book artist. He is best known for his frequent collaborations with Grant Morrison on titles such as New X-Men, We 3, All-Star Superman, and Batman and Robin, as well as his work with Mark Millar on The Authority and Jupiter's Legacy.
Quitely first worked upon the Scottish underground comics title Electric Soup in 1990. He wrote and drew The Greens, a parody of The Broons strip published by D.C. Thompson. It was in working on this book that he adopted his pen name Frank Quitely from the term "quite frankly", as he did not want his family to know it was his work, worried that they may have found it upsetting.
Dissonance
Lotr Lone Horseman
Fallout 3 DLC the PITT
Wet
Pablo Piccaso
Franz Marc
Urban Chaos
www.giantbomb.com
Harmony
New Super Mario Bros 2
Studio Gibli: The Cat Returns
Peter pan: Never Land
doyouremember.com
The war of the worlds
This is my final design poster that portrays a war between two armies and a lone agent standing in the middle. The story behind the imagery is that the masked fighters are a rebellion that do not agree with force evolution pushed into the human bodys and is now mandatory and compulsory for the entire human race and fight for the right to retain their humanity.
