Level-up Your Concept Art Portfolio in 4 Weeks. Really.
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 25 มิ.ย. 2024
- Are you struggling to get your foot in the door as an artist because every job requires professional experience? It can be a frustrating catch-22. But fear not, because I have a solution for you: fake it 'till you make it!
In this 4-part series, we'll be designing and painting a squad of characters that look like they were made for a "real world" paid project. It's the perfect framework to self-direct and create a final portfolio piece that is incredibly compelling.
Introducing the DPS Character Squad Challenge! 🎺🎵 Join our amazing Discord community at / discord and participate with a bunch of cool artists. And even if you stumble across this video years from now, give it a try! It's a great way to build your pro portfolio pieces and gain experience, even if you're not technically a "pro" yet.
0:00 - Intro
1:40 - Character Squad
2:53 - Make a Plan
4:39 - Character Archetypes
7:26 - Layered Main Character
8:57 - Weaving Personalities
9:56 - Join the Challenge / 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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I did a storyboard - 23 images, 6 backgrounds and 2-3 characters under 7 days. It was to apply for university. I wish I had known about the deadline further back than a week.
EDIT: Unfortunately, it did not get in. Maybe in my next life. 😃
Whoa! That's an intense amount of work. Did you end up getting in?
@@fowlerillus Will see in a few months and report back. It's very likely I won't make it, but at least it motivated me to draw.
that's a lot, hope you make it man
@@jayceejangeronga6975 Thanks! Either way, every day is a practice day.
What kind of school makes you do that maybe this is just my opinion but I feel like if you're going to do that much work for school you might as well apply for the jobs
Yes characters are hard, and because they are one of the jobs almost everyone wants to, the market becomes saturated. I still remember how almost everyone in art school would fill up their portfolios with characters.
Totally - it's popular indeed and rightly so! Always tough to stand out in a crowded field but it's a fun challenge too.
The market is a fluid thing. It becomes saturated with offers - new opportunities open up. Keep evolving, make better art - the market will need you.
@@MelvilleG Always saw it from veryone wanting the same job, not how saturated it was from offers. I will practice that mind shift of seeing it as saturated with "offers" instead of competition.
This is perfect timing since I'm trying to build up my portfolio! I've been learning a lot from your character design course, I just wish I was further along in general. ;A;
That's great - these self directed assignments can really help build out those pieces. Welcome aboard!
This new challenge sounds really cool! I'm excited for it!
Awesome! I'm glad you're on board.
I'm really enjoying these videos! Thank you!
Glad you like them! Thanks for the message
Very cool !! this challenge couldn't be more of a perfect timing. I have some really good ideas and I can't wait to share it with you guys !! I'm receiving my new Huion Kamvas pro 22 (2019) today so it will be a perfect first assigment ! :) Good luck everyone !
Nice! Good ideas and cool equipment to match. Time to make the cool things! :)
I love your characters, it's amazing...
Thank you! Super nice of you.
Totally joining this art challenge, i need to built my portfolio ASAP.
Welcome! Glad you're up for it. Should be a really fun one
You currently have 25.3k subs right now. I will continue to follow you and see you grow your channel up to millions!!!!! Goodluck to you Hardy
Aw, thanks :) I appreciate the support
Looks like he got another 2.4k. Which is pretty good.
@@pyros. nice!
so exciting! I’ll be joining for sure and sharing with my concept art friends ^^
Yay! Welcome aboard.
Thank you very much Hardy for giving us this opportunity, you are a great teacher!
I appreciate that!
THIS IS SOOO GOOD!!!!
Thanks so much :)
Excelent. Amazing. Thank you for teaching us and share your talent.
Wow, thank you. Thanks very kind.
What is this timing! Was just looking for this! Thank you!
Perfect! Glad to hear it.
I already have two finished character and currently working on the third one. I was applying what I've learned from you on my OC's, and this challenge happend. 😅
Well that certainly worked out perfectly! I'm so glad.
Amazing character design!! soooo cool jacket!
Thank you! 😄
Sounds like fun!
Bring the fire Mike!
Just found this community, can't wait to take part
I'm so glad! Welcome. Such a great group of engaged artists.
I want to get better at painting and simple anatomy before trying, but this is such a cool idea to help people with. Great marketing 🤙🏼
Thanks! I'm reworking all of my resources on painting people so I hope to have some more useful stuff on anatomy by end of summer.
hey i am new. im going to join this challenge! this vid came along for me at a perfect time and i wanted to thank you for sharing your insight and work.
That's great! Welcome :)
Awesome!!
Thank you! Cheers!
Love this idea man. Have brought some of your courses and have learned a lot! Curious to know what the background music is? It's so soothing. Looking forward to seeing where this goes. Thank you for all that you do :)
Thanks! Glad you're liking these. I get music from Epidemic Sound which is great. This is Drift Up by Amber Glow. Beautiful stuff and just the vibe I'm looking for.
Hi am an self taught and i learned a lot from your speed paint process thank you for sharing this video.
That's awesome! I'm so glad this was helpful
I love this :)
Thanks! Glad you like it.
i need a lot of practise bc my skills are not the best but i'll join this challenge, it will give me the motivation i need
Definitely don't feel like this is for experts only - all skill levels are welcome and the community is always super supportive.
Hi Hardy, wonderfull jobs and technic.
Thank you!
Just an awesome channel.
Glad you enjoy it! Thanks.
amazing idea
Nice! I'm glad you're into it.
i really do need to make a design portfolio, on the off chance i find a job I really want to apply to. this will help me a lot 😀
That's great! I'm so glad this is helpful :)
So cool
Awesome! Glad you like it.
Incredible. How often do you reference poses? Or are they mostly from your visual library? I struggle trying to visualize a dynamic pose without a good reference.
I usually need to browse for a pose that has the attitude that I want and a gesture I want to capture. Incredible how nuanced those things can be - the smallest change in angle of the hips or height of the shoulders can change everything so I usually need help getting that initial inspiration and making sure the final pose will have the attitude that I want the character to have. From there, I can rely on some pretty solid anatomy knowledge to help to build things around that frame work and I just fine tune and fine tune until it feels just right. I spend about half of the total design time on the pose alone!
Badass character. What ambient music did you use for this video its great!
Thanks! I love the music too - it's from Epidemic Sound (which I highly recommend) and the track is Drift Up by Amber Glow
Man. Watching this video and I can’t wait to do something that’s worth it. Thank you a lot. How can I join the community?
That's great! Definitely jump in if you're up for it. There is a discord invitation in the description of the video.
Increible, haces facil lo dificil...
Thank you!
i see thank you for the advice
My pleasure!
was thinking of that man
Hey Chitraksh! Nice to hear from you. Awesome, I hope you'll participate.
Nice
Thanks!
thank u
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Love the complete Outfit! Not really sure why you made the weapon pop with that cyan color. Is there a reason for it?
Also the cape/jacket. Its great! haven't thought about such type of upper wear before!
Thanks! I really appreciate that. Ah - great catch on the accent color. I'm planning on using that blue and yellow as a way to tie the whole squad together with some consistent color accents. The next character will have blue skin :)
@@fowlerillus thanks for your in depth answer! Sounds like a round concept then. Great to get that insight.
When you design characters, do you also include the weapons or gadgets they use?
Sometimes but not always. I think including those things only makes the character more valuable as a portfolio item, but of course it takes more work. Just about every character in this squad will have a big, crazy gun, so there will be some prop design for the squad I'm working on. Not at all a requirement though.
Hey Hardy, may I follow it along but with environments? I've been busy as hell with a university I just want to run away from and I just finished a piece from my personal IP so don't wanna oversaturate myself doing another right away , really need to relax and try something different. Any tips on "archetypes" for places aside from what you said already?
You definitely can but if you're not into characters at the moment, you might consider waiting until a future challenge. We'll certainly have an environment-based challenge at some point (maybe up next?) and I'd love to continue the idea of archetypes. Sure, there are many that I can think of and it usually just boils down to standard settings you see in a movie like a lab, a library, a dungeon, a safe home etc. - all of these have common qualities and feelings that apply to any genre. That bar example is my favorite though :)
Is this for people with painting experience, I watched your class back when I was in school I loved it it was simple and got me into painting but I could never put more effort into it because I was pursuing 3D in school. But lately I have been wanting to put 3D down because it is self is very hard to get into as well and wanted to get back into painting and making characters in Photoshop. It's a hell of a lot easier than 3D or I should say it's easier and a hell of a lot faster LOL
All levels of experience are welcome so definitely don't disqualify yourself if you have been away from digital painting for a while. I agree, it tends to just feel easier and more expressive than 3D but I am hugely biased :)
Might have to be a lurker on this challenge! Lol
Haha, I wish I could post lurker gifs on TH-cam comments :) Would love it if you dive in but definitely don't feel pressured - I know characters aren't your fav (even though you are awesome at them like everything else you paint)
@@fowlerillus oh man…it’s super tempting. I’ll sleep on it lol. Thanks Hardy!
Oh no does it overlap with Artstation challenge?
I'm not sure - is Artstation doing something just like this? Whoops, I should have checked first :) Oh well, our challenge will be more fun. Haha
what brushes do u use? are they available on clipstudio??
These are photoshop brushes so I'm not sure if they port over to CSP. Can it use abr files? The brushes are mostly standard round brushes but I use a drybrush-like smudge tool and a diamond shaped brush with some paper texture for the more brushy parts.
do you have an online class, where you will teach painting and help to make a concept art portfolio?
I definitely do. Check out www.digitalpaintingstudio.com to see the learning resources we offer.
I know it’s not the focus of the video but it’s the main thing keeping me from picking up my pen again is there any point to focus on concept art now with that ai business going on?
Yeah, I totally get that and you are definitely not alone. I think AI is going to affect everyone in the coming years in one way or another so I have arrived at the comfortable conclusion that I'm going to keep making art because I'm an artist. Not at all a satisfactory answer but that's where I am currently and we'll all just have to wait and see and navigate this as well as we can.
The only word I get from applications is "unfortunately"
I should have been a programmer, or jumped off a bridge. I ruined my life by choosing this job
Damn, I really hate to hear that. I'm so sorry it has been such a rough road and it sounds like you have had more than your share of lows on this crazy road. I'm really sorry. If you ever need someone to talk to, reach out to me on discord. Good luck :)
Can't join ur discord anymore, it says the link to join has expired😢
Oh sorry about that - this link should still be active discord.gg/mH35E3fYJt but let me know if the problem persists
how much time left
It runs until the end of April
Is this still the case in 2024? Because I'm trying I'm trying so dam hard but I keep getting rejected and I think I will quit
Bummer, I'm sorry to hear that. Character art is especially competitive and there can be lots and lots of rejection before good things start happening. I'm sorry that breakthrough hasn't yet happened and I hope it's right around the corner for you!
@@fowlerillus i hope so too because I'm really tired I won't lie hahaha. I even stopped working on my art portfolio. So I might try again but I'm not sure anymore I even wanted to make youtube to be again I might not even try. Sorry for the negativity but after apply for 500+ jobs I kinda in a limbo
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Sorry about that! Fixed