Learning About Concept Art

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My version of Victor Staris landscape. Check out Victor Staris’ Youtube channel

My goal is to create a world for my characters. For the first book I didn’t have the chops to create an environment for my characters. For my second book, I worked on creating background images for most scenes. Now I want to be able to create a world for my characters…and for myself. I love concept art, especially fantasy concept art like that in the Lord of the Ring’s movies. I especially admire the paintings of Maxfield Parish. His golden clouds rocky my boat.

I’ve painted this scene from Victor’s tutorial four times. I get a little better every time. I started the painting using Corel Painter, but I became frustrated when I couldn’t find a suitable brush among the thousand or so in that program. Instead, I imported Victor Staris’ Photoshop brushes into Clip Studio Paint, which now can import Photoshop brushes. They work great in CSP. Victor generously shares his personal brushes with the world. Victor, thanks!