Easiet way to make conept arts?

What's the best way of drawing concept arts? In Photoshop or by hand? As I sadly can't afford a tablet.

If you don't have a tablet then go by hand. Trying to draw something with the mouse is a mess unless you only use basic geometric shapes.

I make my animations and drawings with flash. I have a wacom intous 5 medium that I use to draw with, and at work a bamboo pen & touch small.

just photoshop + tablet A5 size is best, but cintiq can be better Important is what style of concept do you like.

i think this looks like old PS CS3?

Guess I'll have to stick to normal drawing then, as I can't afford a tablet sadly.

Running on a 2000$+ Wacom tablet...

But seriously, if you can't afford any type of tablet, then just go with making sketches by hand and just coloring them afterwards on PC.

Okay, thanks.

If you want to draw concept, just use pen and paper. (if you are working with more people, you will need a scanner) Don't worry about it being ugly or anything, concept art is about conveying a message.

I am now 4th year 3D artists, got 2 years of drawing and still pretty much terrible at it . I can reproduce images/scenes with pencil, but drawing characters or basically anything from my mind, is something I suck at XD. That's one of the reasons I went technical artist.

Alternatively use simple objects like cubes and cylinders in programs like maya to create something that looks nice.

If you want to be really experimental, you can also procedurally generate objects according to rules, let it generate a lot of objects and pick a couple that look nice.

My personal advice would be looking at the silhouette and composition:
balance between the sizes of objects
repetition
that kind of stuff.

Without a tablet i think analog methods are the way to go. But its acually total unimportant what methods you use fora concept. If you draw it with charcoal or with a pen dosen't matter. Just use what have or like.
But colour is fairly important in conceptart. Use watercolour, acrylics or markers for adding colours to your basic drawings. Maybe make copies before hand so you can test out diferent styles.
I personally like gouache the most when it comes to traditional paint.

A few tipps.

- Try different paper sizes - maybe painting/drawing big suits you and its also easier to make details

- try diferent kinds of paper - when your budget is samll, cut cereal packaging(or what ever cardboard like stuff you find) and paint on the inside.

- when it comes to concet art the most important thing is the finding of a god shape. It the base of everthing that follows.´Here is some stuff from Sinix Design. He has an incedible youtube channel.
http://www.youtube.com/user/sinixdesign - his channel
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zhkff-sz1xs - amazing thouhgt about design and approach

ok i should stop...
hope it helps.
Al

http://al.chemy.org/ <- my faveorite for when I'm in a block!

I have a fairly good tablet, and I still have 3 sketchbooks lyin around my desk. I almost always start on paper, see where I'm going (then I usually skip the tablet alltogether and go straight to 3d... which really isn't good and rarely works out) Concepting is probably the hardest thing to draw though, since you have to really focus and "see" on the paper/screen what you're imagining... takes alot of skill/practice.

Hah, holy crap. Thanks.

Altough I'm kinda limited to only A4 paper wich I have around, I'm really in a horrible situation and I can barely afford anything. I'll check the videos and the program once I get a start to get better at modelling. :mrgreen: