Designing ‘Special Skill' Archetype Characters: Tips and Techniques for Concept Artists

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Hardy Fowler - Digital Painting Studio

Күн бұрын

In this video, we explore the most important character in your concept art portfolio.
Join us as we delve into the dynamics of character classes like Wizards, Hackers, and Snipers, and how they play a crucial role in your portfolio and in any character squad.
For part 3 of my character squad, let's talk about the dynamics at play and what considerations to keep in mind as you design and paint this critical pillar of your squad. Get expert tips on design and painting techniques as we create a cool character in real-time.
Want to take on the Character Squad challenge? Join our vibrant Discord community of talented artists and participate in monthly challenges: / discord
0:00 - Intro
0:48 - Special Skill Character
3:46 - The Most Important Character
6:23 - Assembling the Squad
9:20 - Wrap Up
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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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@artofdben8578 Жыл бұрын

The bits of knowledge you are sharing in these videos, regarding designing characters and archetypes, are priceless. I'm part of the discord community too since a couple of weeks, and let me say, it is really special. Hats off to you!

@fowlerillus Жыл бұрын

That is so great to hear. I'm so glad that you are enjoying the community. Such a cool group of artists :)

@chillarttalks Жыл бұрын

man I absolutely loved this series! I hope I get to participate in the challenge in time :D

@fowlerillus Жыл бұрын

Thank you! I hope you can jump in

@mkiller1001 Жыл бұрын

Hardy I love your work! Thank you for these incredible videos. I've been practicing for two years now and your edge control comments and showcase in videos transformed my painting skills to a higher level. I definitely want to take your course but as a father with a small baby I'm having hard time with pacing so I know I'll only have an hour or so a day to watch and practice, hope to take it sometime during next year once I have some more free time. Till then I'll keep watching your YT videos!

@fowlerillus Жыл бұрын

Thank you so much and I'm so glad to hear that these have been meaningful for you. Definitely focus on being a dad and I'll be around if I can ever help in the future. Enjoy - they don't stay babies for long! :)

@ravinduruwanpathirana4900 Жыл бұрын

Hello Hardy, amazing stuff and I love how you paint. Keep up the great work.

@fowlerillus Жыл бұрын

Thank you! Cheers!

@sventheterrible7598 Жыл бұрын

Taking your courses in the upcoming days. Thanks for all the knowledge transfer Hardy!

@fowlerillus Жыл бұрын

Any time! Good luck and reach out if I can help.

@Oakbeast Жыл бұрын

Thank you so much for sharing your brush technique & opacity control! i've been looking for a digital painting class and then gave up ...maybe I'll give this a go.

@fowlerillus Жыл бұрын

Glad that was helpful!

@petrikin_v Жыл бұрын

stunning work! useful video!

@fowlerillus Жыл бұрын

Thank you! Cheers!

@Nebulaoblivion Жыл бұрын

this is amazing.

@fowlerillus Жыл бұрын

Thanks! Glad you liked it :)

@mehmetyhallac Жыл бұрын

Hardy is amazing . I recommend his courses👍

@fowlerillus Жыл бұрын

Thanks! I'm so glad they were helpful for you.

@Strider1122 7 ай бұрын

I really love this, your process is awesome, can you do more of these please that would be so cool thank you. 🙏Maybe an Antagonist bunch, Space Pirates😀

@fowlerillus 7 ай бұрын

Thanks! That sounds awesome - let's go villainous :)

@Sandokqn Жыл бұрын

Hey Hardy! How do you change your brush opacity & flow that fast, while you keep painting? It always bugs me out because I have to stop my flow in order to ajust the settings. Another awesome video once again! Thank you for everything you do!

@fowlerillus Жыл бұрын

Thanks! Glad you liked it. I can definitely help with that - keyboard shortcuts! To adjust opacity, just hit the number keys and it will change by factors of 10 (3-30%, 9-90% etc.). Flow is the same thing, you just hold down shift. I have gotten really quick with these over the years so sorry if it just seems to be changing like crazy in this sped up video :)

@iCamSkiEz Жыл бұрын

Dude absolutely amazing design and I love your style of painting! I'm a 3D student if you were open to it, would it be okay for me to make a project out of these concepts? No problem if not!

@fowlerillus Жыл бұрын

Thanks! I'm glad you like it. Sure, please go ahead. Just credit the original work. Good luck! I'd love to see it when you're done.

@zlatIIX Жыл бұрын

Anyone know if he has a brush set to download?

@fowlerillus Жыл бұрын

Hi Bahaa, I'm happy to share those. I have a basic pack I can give you and I'm pretty sure a lot of these are included in it. If you are on our discord server, just reach out to me there and I'll get the abr file to you

@nandozx3516 Жыл бұрын

Trying to breakdown character squads rn I realized two things. Ubisoft is really down bad and me and my friends suck at character picking in games

@fowlerillus Жыл бұрын

Haha. Moment of clarity :)

@fuzzydragons Жыл бұрын

the magenta top def worked better, has her stand out a an individual but her main design ties her to the other characters

@fowlerillus Жыл бұрын

Thanks! I was happy with that pivot. They were looking really homogenous as a group before that.

@7olkan Жыл бұрын

I don't understand why she would have that kind of contrast btwn her clothing and skin, if you're looking to make this kind of sniper/utility character, muted colors would probably fit much better. Maybe this plays into the character's personality, they might have a bad habit of attracting attention to themselves or something like that, and their poor clothing choice serves to reflect that? This looks like a character that's meant to be seen. I don't get it. Your brute looks like it could sneak around better than your sniper/utility character could. I don't know anything about design though. Take this with the smallest grain of salt. still like the paintings, very cool

@fowlerillus Жыл бұрын

Oh totally - a lot of these choices are style and trying to look cool at the expense of functionality. I think there is a spectrum of game and film worlds that go from highly grounded and realistic (like Call of Duty and James Cameron movies) over to highly stylized (like Overwatch or Arcane) and this was trying to fit somewhere in the middle. Completely valid points you have and if my client came back with that feedback, we could certainly clothe her in black or give her more stealth.