Dark Souls Armor Material study - Digital Art Workouts #5
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In this series, I try to study new art styles and material rendering techniques. Sometimes a new trick or technique is revealed, sometimes we just learn how to reflect a little moonlight off of a warm armor plating. This episode we dig into the art style of Dark Souls and pick up a few tricks on lighting metals.
Things I've worked on:
Overwatch (PC, PS4)
League of Legends (PC)
Diablo 3 (PC,PS4)
Hearthstone (Mobile, PC)
Burning Crusade (PC)
Wrath of the Lich King (PC)
Indivisible
Unsung Story
Final Fight Streetwise (PS2)
He Man (GBA)
Terminator 3 (GBA)
CannonBallers (Mobile)
CreeD
Twilight Monk
Ikeda
Nova Colony
Galaxy's Edge
SodaPopSoldier
Millenium Actress
Goblins and Gnomes
![Never-Before-Seen Places in Dark Souls [Art Competition]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/baiVamSrGu8/mqdefault.jpg)
Me: *starts studying dark souls armour*
“YOU DIED”
lol
I know you don't these types of videos much anymore, but I love how technical you explain this, one can really hear the full concentration in your voice
Love these studies, especially when it's about shiny armors.
That second shoulder guard is godlike!! Incredible!
Trent, what you are doing for us is a complete friend lift. Thank you so much for this. Have a nice day, you deserve
This channel is underrated. This channel deserves more subs💕
The sword is clipping through the armor in the reference! :D Thanks for the great video and demonstration.
Hey Trent! You are awesome!!
By far, my favorite digital art workout video. Gotta work on some armor!
Hey dude love your stuff. Just the other day I saw your sketchbook in the September issue of ImagineFX Magazine. It starts on page 44 people and is in stores now. Trent's sketchbook is AWESOME.
I just recently started digital art yesterday. It all seems so complicated with all the different brush types,colors,layers,lighting types,dodge and on and on. Ive always done traditional only and i always hated doing anything with color because i cant remember the basics of how colors mix and have a very hard time remembering a lot of different techniques or my visual memory. Doing digital feels like drawing,sketching,painting,computer programming,photoediting,photography,mathematics,anatomy (plus 500 other skills).
Those studies turned out so well. A Dark Souls fan art piece (or inspired by DS piece) from you would be cool. The games are great and they have so many unique boss fights.
Would like to see more like this - studies are so great to learn
I'm always scared about to learn or get an study even when im working on something i never work before, but your videos and councils always come when im insecure about a design or an illustration, thank you Mr. Trent and sorry if my grammar is bad, im trying to be better on it.
Better than copying other designers who may have gotten things wrong: get books on real armor etc. or go to museum websites that have the real armor on display and copy the real thing (but keep in mind that it looks more aged now than when it was new and in use). The benefit of this is also that you can use the study in your own work without any copyright issues.
That's true, but if you're working on stylized games, you need to be able to paint in that style usually.
@@TrentKaniuga That's a good point, thank you!
Thank you, Trent
Man, I need to practice that. Thanks for sharing your studies, you're awesome!!!
Thank you so much for all the knowledge that you share with this community :D
So good, more thank you
gr8 lesson about how to use color picking..
Because the lesson was about materials -_-,if you want color theory then this video isn't for you.Also mr smartass color picking is still a great way for studying if you pay attention to the color wheel.If you want to *understand* the color,color picking is a great way to do that.If you want to get a better eye at color than color picking isn't that great but since color is so relative and context dependant it can easily trick your eyes ,so picking colors from what you see is gonna quickly limit your growth
blessed be the youtube bell
inspires me every fucking time
i am very new to art. digital art, (not drawn since i left school just under 5 years ago) and i have been bingewatching your tutorial videos like this, several times repeating them, trying to soak it up.
i want to tell you just how much i appreciate these videos, when drawing with my brand now tablet, i am starting to think so much more when trying to draw.
aside from thanks, i would really like to see a warm-light, fantasy-theme illustration done. lots of your videos i have seen (so far) are very sci-fi illustrations/character which i really love the style of, but i would like to see how you would deal with the different lighting and line style that a brighter fantasy design calls for.
lot of text here. Thank again Trent. looking forward to your next lesson.
awesome thank you
Hey Trent!
I recently dropped out of college and got myself a full time job. These past months I've just been working to save up for some digital art equipment. I've always been into art and figured I should take my chances with it (considering the fact that I'm still super young, 20 yo)
I plan to draw for 1 year and see where it takes me. I've been searching the internet for different equipments (both software and hardware) but there is so much to choose from!
If you could compile a list of all the equipment needed for me in order to start practising and following your tutorials, that would be super helpful : )
trent u are amaizing tanks for share this! a big hung from colombia bro! keep making videos please!
I luv u so much I’ll try to do some studying later on!!!!!
Great tutorial~ please update Elden Ring Armor💫
We like this
Had me thinking you had a real life set of armor in the thumbnail man 😂
It would be soooo exciting doing this kind of study, but I still have to concern about my own style and being consistent to get comissioned jobs
Hey Trent :) Those studies are really awesome but I have one Question : I have been told when I do studies I should avoid using the eyedropper tool to get a better understanding of the colors that are in my reference image. Now I have watched your Videos and you do use the eyedropper a lot so my Question is : What is the more beneficial for an artist ? Use the Eyedropper or trying to find the right colors yourself? I hope this makes any sense :D Anyway thank you for doing these videos :) Cheers
I would say if you want to improve your understanding of colour and colour temperature, get a more discerning eye for being able to pick out values and colour, then don't use an eyedropper tool but if all you want is to be able to paint the material itself and you already have a good eye for colour, eyedropper is fine. Though you could also argue that if you have a good eye for colour, you could just quickly pick out the best colours yourself anyway and have them match pretty well.
@@Jhakaro no it's not it makes you reference dependant just like this guy is
How did the metal veins? Just put dark color or have any more tricks?
Hello, Trent or someone. How do the veins in the metal? Help me please.
Have you considered making a discord channel for your community to hang out on and get to know each other? You mention that we should find and help others within our skill cap, a discord channel would be a great place to start for us :D
I'll look into it!
Have you made any videos on doing master studies and your take on breaking down an illustration for composition, color..etc.?
Is there a reason why you picking the colors if you are doing a study? Or is it only about getting the materials right?
I think he is trying to get the rendering as close to the source image as possible, trying to imitate the dents and studying the layering of the materials. The study he is doing is really focused.
I come and go with art, two reasons for such, my career takes precedence (even though I'm not into it that much) and second, which is what I wanted to know from you (I've watched your stuff for a couple years) what I'm curious about from you is, can you get some of these amazing textures that are like this grimy dinged up and heavily used metal but in autodesk sketchbook. Since I can't spend too much time, I don't want to spend too much money, but I have sketchbook and I can't seem to get these beautiful textures that I typically see with other software. Could you make this particular texture on sketchbook? (As in, is it possible vice would you do this particular pic on sketchbook) also would you do a tutorial on how to do this on sketchbook or point me to a video you already did?
Keep doing amazing art!
Thank you!
GREAT VIDEOS MAN
TRULY INSPIRATIONAL
i was wondering if you can tell me where are the first 2 material studies.?
i got
Dark Souls Armor Material study - Digital Art Workouts #5
Peachy Gemstone Material Study - Digital Art Workouts #4 (Photoshop)
Mossy Stone Material Study - Digital Art Workouts #3 (Photoshop)
do you have the links?
It's too late if I start in the concept art, if I'm 25 years old? I was studying
graphic design, but I could not continue paying the university and not finished, I try to learn by myself in a self-taught way, you know some case like mine, thanks and sorry for my bad english, i speak spanish
You're never too old bro.
Hey, siempre es bueno ver a alguien más de España :) Yo también tengo 25 años y no he estudiado nada relacionado con el arte, y aquí estoy intentando aprender por mi cuenta sobre concept art. Nunca es tarde, aunque cuanto antes mejor, pero piensa que al menos has tenido contacto con el diseño gráfico y eso ya es una ventaja. Lo más importante es no rendirse, keep going!
Listen to Jake Parker's pod cast, "Three point perspective", they speak about age when it comes to art. It's never to late!
@@RoyalKnight16 sorry, but i cant find the pod cast, can you give me the link, please
@@juanfranciscomontes2271 I imagine this is the Jake Parker he's referring to th-cam.com/users/jakeparker44
Trent how do you feel about the use of the color picker? I see you used it a lot in this video and I've also used it in the past but when I did I felt like I was not learning anything so now I try to avoid it for my studies.
do you learn anything by color picking?
If you pay attention to the color wheel as you pick the colors,definetely!
Hi Trent! What box set of tutorial volume do you recommend for digital beginners ? And what brushes does include?
Thanks to you I'm getting into digital art a lot but I really struggle when Painting in sketchbook/photoshop so I thought that maybe I should buy one of these box to know the tricks jajaja
Where can i download those brushes?
Awesome video! by the wat, what software do you use to record you video?
is this also useful for beginners ? or is it better to just focus on fundamentals first ?
I think that it's a technique that you can use to do a study at any level. Pick something that you want to learn/study. Copy it, right next to it. Compare what you have to what you're studying and ask yourself "what do I see that am I not replicating?". At ANY level, if you do these kind of studies, you will grow.
thnx alot man , i'll add it into my training regime.
Пожалуйста можете добавить русские субтитры, а то я понимаю только 40% от всего
Hi! Can anyone please suggest which is the best Drawing App to use in my Galaxy Tab S6, which I can use in digital art and advance painting, just like this Paint Metal Tutorial...Thanks in advance. BTW... I love this tutorial..
Wow my name is trenten
have you ever used Procreate? If so, how do you feel about it?
I tried it briefly, but I don't like to draw on an ipad. It's too slow for my taste. I need my quick keys and transform tools within a button press.
Hey Trent ... i have question for you ... maybe you could help me. I have this problem with the feeling of cheating when i try to use texture brushes or custom brushes.
I always do my art only with variation of hard round brush or soft brush. I don't use anything else. If i try so i just get ... mad at me and thinking of cheating.
Did you ever feel like that? Or could you somehow give me some tip that would help me overcome this "block"? Thanks in advance...
at the 4:16 How you can rotate the canvas without commands I watched like compass doing that
watch my video on photoshop quick keys. or just use the R key on your keyboard.
So I just tried what you’ve suggested, and picked up some of Sakimichans stuff, because I feel like she has a pretty cool hyper realism style... and it kinda works, I just pick different objectives with each piece and learn something new every time...
So thanks a lot, really a great advice.
But currently I face a little struggle, I want to do some more environmental art
(more Illustration )but I just can’t get my composition down ... and it kinda always makes me stop right at the start... do you have any tips, how I could get over that?
Sakimichan's art is not hyper realism though more like stylised realism, just wanted to point that out.
BombaJead
oh, I thought hyper realism is kinda stylized realism ... so didn’t knew that thanks mate
dark fantasy ♂♂♂
Pick up your color directly from a reference image is not a very good way to practice.You have to under stand why the material looks like this,and try to rebuild it by picking up color on your own.
And how on earth are you gonna understand the color if you use your eyes?If you pick colors from your reference and pay attention to the color wheel as it changes you will definetely understand color,you will see that the blue you see isn't really blue but a grey,if you use your eyes you re just gonna pick blue and then wonder why it looks like crap.
not fair... i cant press 10 likes...
Well you can make 10 account
just like im doing with your videos 0:)...
DON'T pick colours from you reference it will make you reference dependant I dont know what kind of teacher are you cause that just basic knowledge
Some couple people told you that or you find that from the internet and now you're being a smartass.Selecting colors from your reference is great for learning color theory.How are you gonna know that it is a desaturated brown over there if you don't have the knowledge and pick colors from your lack of it.Picking colors and paying attention to the color wheel is a great way to learn how colors work in different situations.Color is relative,it can trick your brain.
Also,Trent is studying material in this video and the fact that he's also an experienced artist makes your comment dumb.I see no purpose for him to pick his own colors since he doesn't need to.
Hi Trent, thanks for the awesome free tutorials , what if I want to get the your tutorials pack and I can't afford the full price do you offer discount on the already discounted ? thanks
Awesome video Trent! Is it better to use a low amount of layers for a more traditional look or to use quite a lot of layers to prevent mistakes?
It doesn't matter how many layers you use. I sometimes reach 500+ layers if I've been working on a piece for a while. It all goes flat eventually! Don't obsess over "not making mistakes". Use as many layers as you need to get the job done and learn what you need to learn and produce good results.
Thanks for the reply man :)
Thank you man. I needed this.