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Motorcycle Concept Sketching Video Series

James Ellis - Motorcycle Concept Sketching

In this series, WETA Concept Artist James Ellis shows you how to create a rough render of a motorcycle design concept using a range of professional Photoshop techniques, such as masking, blocking in shades and blending tones and shading. Starting off from a thumbnail sketch, you’ll learn how to develop this into a finished digital painting quickly and get great results.

Concept design is an exciting area of the creative industry, where you could be designing vehicles to be used in animations and computer games. The skills you’ll pick up through watching this series will prove really useful in every other aspect of your artistic career and will encourage you to look at your work in a fresh light.


What You Will Learn

  • How the Various Parts of a Motorcycle Work
  • How to Quickly Develop a Series of Thumbnail Sketches
  • How to Draw the Framework From Your Initial Idea
  • How to Quickly Block in Areas of Form and Shadow in Grayscale
  • How to Color Your Grayscale Painting and Create 3D Effects
  • How to Apply Finishing Touches to Make Your Concept Stand out


Once you’ve watched the lessons in this series, you’ll be able to add vehicle design concepts to your portfolio.

Creating concepts quickly to be used in animations or computer games
is a great skill to have, with many opportunities to work in the design
studios of some of the biggest names in the world.

This series will take you through the vehicle concept design process step by step, all accompanied by the unique humor and approach of instructor, James Ellis.

From him, you’ll learn not to be precious with your work and, instead,
develop impressive cutting-edge motorcycle concept designs in a short space of time.

LESSON TITLE DIFFICULTY LENGTH PUBLISHED
Motorcycle Concept Sketching | 01 | Introduction Advanced 0:02:53 07-02-2012
Motorcycle Concept Sketching | 02 | Reviewing the Parts of a Motorcycle Advanced 0:14:41 07-02-2012
Motorcycle Concept Sketching | 03 | Drawing Thumbnail Sketches Advanced 0:18:45 07-02-2012
Motorcycle Concept Sketching | 04 | Refining Thumbnail Sketches Advanced 0:07:52 07-02-2012
Motorcycle Concept Sketching | 05 | Blocking out Basic Tones and Shapes Advanced 0:09:15 07-02-2012
Motorcycle Concept Sketching | 06 | Drawing The Wheels Advanced 0:11:33 07-02-2012
Motorcycle Concept Sketching | 07 | Rendering the Body Part 1 Advanced 0:14:15 07-02-2012
Motorcycle Concept Sketching | 08 | Rendering the Body Part 2 Advanced 0:13:42 07-02-2012
Motorcycle Concept Sketching | 09 | Rendering the Body Part 3 Advanced 0:20:33 07-02-2012
Motorcycle Concept Sketching | 10 | Final Touches and Recap Advanced 0:12:10 07-02-2012





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