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Painting Environments - Creating Concept Art Worlds with Photoshop

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Overview

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Welcome to Painting Environments. My name is Hardy Fowler and I am a professional illustrator and concept artist. I’m calling on all artists out there with a passion for creating worlds - if you’ve ever dreamed of making a career out of  this, I’m here to tell you that the dream is real. You can make a living doing this!

All you need is a killer portfolio to launch you into an amazingly fun and rewarding career. 

This course can get you there. I’ll show you all of my professional level techniques and tricks that will demystify the entire process of create stunning environments and landscapes with Adobe Photoshop. This stuff is way easier than it looks! In an easy to grasp, step by step process, I’ll share all of my digital painting techniques and custom tools that will have you amazed at how stunning, expansive and detailed your scenes can be!

But this course is so much more than just a painting demonstration. We’ll teach you everything you need to know to start thinking like a professional environment designer. To tie it all together, we offer responsive support and loads of other course resources to make sure that every student can take their work to new heights.

Don’t miss your chance to create worlds. You can do this! It just might lead to a dream career. Enroll today, grab your stylus and let’s paint cool stuff.

Syllabus

  • Trailer
  • Introduction
  • Overview
  • Depth & Scale
  • Atmospheric Perspective
  • Mood & Story
  • Composition
  • Custom Brushes
  • Custom Shapes
  • Rendering Skies
  • Rendering Trees & Foliage
  • Rendering Rocks & Mountains
  • Rendering Water
  • Project Briefs
  • Project 1 - Hidden Path - Sketch & Rough Color
  • Project 1 - Hidden Path - Refined Color
  • Project 1 - Hidden Path - Texture & Polish
  • Project 2 - Epic Valley - Thumbnails
  • Project 2 - Epic Valley - Rough Color
  • Project 2 - Epic Valley - Refined Color
  • Project 2 - Epic Valley - Final Polish
  • Project 3 - Ironwood Forest - Concept
  • Project 3 - Ironwood Forest - Rough Color
  • Project 3 - Ironwood Forest - Adding Detail
  • Project 3 - Ironwood Forest - Texture
  • Project 3 - Ironwood Forest - Final Polish
  • Course Recap

Taught by

Hardy Fowler

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