Silhouette

Silhouettes

Silhouettes are very useful and very much required for concept art ,for example if a concept artist is given the task of creating a monster ,like you see below ,the artist would have to make multiple designs ,and as a concept artist they wont  always have time to make multiple  fully detailed designs for  idea, just to have most of them rejected .So they use  silhouettes to give their superiors some easy fast choices. Often when a concept artist likes a particular silhouettes but not the rest of the design in fuller detail, the concept artist will keep the original silhouette so they do not have to start again from scratch and keep the same stance and posture

Particularly in this method of concept art making we have been given, silhouettes are essential to creating a descent design and above needed because they are the starting point as well as the basis for the concept art and quite literally lets some one design and idea from nothing as well as gives the artist more perspective on how they light, dark and perception in an image.  It also allows the artist to visualize more Cleary negative and positive space round and in-between the actual image.

for this task we  had to start by making a black blob on photoshope and start to create to make a shape.

Once you have done that ,then start to erase around the edges and start to make the blob into a creature or a  character.

Then get a large brush, put the colour in grey scale and enlarge the brush to about 1500 ,turn the opacity and hardness of the brush to just over 10% .Then colour the top of your character or creature, then make a new layer and turn up the hardness and opacity up by a small amount and decrease the size of the brush to a size 3 or 5 and start to create detail  to start masking out the figure.

then start creating a few more layers and create more detail within the image to make it look more and more realistic ,but remeber ,use LAYERS!

make sure all your proportions and positioning of limbs and all the body parts are facing the right way.

then add colour and shading and you've got yourself a simple piece of concept art.