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A day in the life of a concept artist

Creative talk Carolina Tello Zeleski, an art director at Californiabased studio Sanzaru Games, takes us through her typical day…

LETTERS

YOUR FEEDBACK & OPINIONS

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PLACE TO SHARE YOUR DIGITAL ART

The best online concept art schools

Class acts Lockdown needn’t stop you learning concept art or extending your skill-set. Tom May presents eight great places to study online

Colleen Doran

Collector’s items The award-winning US artist-writer wants her studio to be as comfortable as possible. She tells us that it’s not work to her, it’s oxygen!

PETER POPKEN

The concept artists tells Gary Evans how a long and varied apprenticeship led to success in the film business

VARIETY IN SHAPES AND VOLUMES

Peter explains how he put together this piece, a masterclass in the fine art of contrasts

FIXING AN IMAGE THAT’S NOT WORKING

Peter often finishes a piece, only to find he doesn’t like it. Here he reveals his next steps…

Thomas Chamber lain-Keen

Discover how this artist embraces community design challenges as a way to hone his skills and unfurl his imagination

USE CONTRAST IN YOUR CONCEPT ART

Lane Brown shares his process for composing two characters with an interesting balance of contrast and harmony to achieve greater impact

SKETCH WITH THE GREASE PENCIL

James Lewis-Vines uses Blender’s acclaimed Grease Pencil tool to help him quickly visualise an immersive underwater environment

MacBook Pro 13-inch (M1, 2020)

NEW LEAF Discover why designers and video editors should be glad that Apple’s latest MacBook has given Intel’s chip tech the cold shoulder

The Art of Pernille Ørum

CHARACTER BUILDING After being kickstarted into life in less than a day, expectations are high for Pernille Ørum’s latest book…

Sketching from the Imagination: Anime & Manga

CREATIVE COLLECTION Illustrators from around the world provide loose sketches, tight line-art and colour studies of manga art

The World of the Dark Crystal

GLOBAL TOUR A welcome opportunity to rediscover Brian Froud’s concept art from The Dark Crystal, which helped to fill the 1982 film with its distinctive characters

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SHOWCASING THE FINEST TRADITIONAL ARTISTS

DRAW FANTASY ART FROM REFERENCE

PATRICK J JONES draws a fantasy character based on a photoshoot, using his anatomy knowledge to go beyond what was originally captured in-camera

First Impressions

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