What is concept art?
Concept art is a creation of pictures or sketches that an artist has created in order to display to the producer or designers of the game what a specific person object or landscape should look like. Thids is used in many industries such as the games industry, films industry and even products industries such as cars so they can get a idea of how to create a model if a car / item and plan ahead before they begin the creation of the fully developed model.
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Why use concept art?
Concept art should be used since it generates ideas and flaws through a objects looks and gives the producer or designer of the item a idea of how they can create the design of the object before getting all the pieces and realising that the engine or components of the object such as the arm does not fit the design of the car or person or landscape and is unproportional. http://www.grimvisions.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/lo-pan-085.jpg
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Styles of concept art
As with concept art there are different styles of creating the ideas or models for a game, product or film for the best detail of that item, character or landscape been created for the game and the mod it can provide along with shadows and detail to the object.
Game concept art
This art is used in order to show great detail of a game that may be getting released soon or a way of expressing how the game is played by a simple image. Doing this allows the concept artist and the viewer to have a better image of how the game style and landscape could look like. http://images4.fanpop.com/image/photos/16200000/Assassin-s-Creed-Concept-Art-assassins-creed-16286972-511-600.jpg
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Cartoon concept art
This art is used in order to show a idea of how a character would be designed to show for a program and also some movies with limitations of the audience been very young and therefore to make the cartoons less scary for bad guys and more friendly with the good guys. https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhToMGdciOzJdCwl-ObnwD8nH-YJNRtNUgPIXyFySoTbCeKY-5FHovGEPK5LpwGQY2RB6ofO6UboTFLsRtlreageV42pOVtBsQUP3AduO4FCN-R912c84y1wYxn00kv8Vy7M7P7lxLOTDkn/s1600/Sidey_concept_art_by_2_Cents.jpg
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Movie concept art
Movie concept art is used in order to get a realistic view of how a character from a cartoon or from a book would look like in the realistic world. Using this allows you to get the best detail for a film and make sure that there are no errors when the film is been created and the suit for the character is in the highest detail. http://ia.media-imdb.com/images/M/MV5BMzk3MTE5MDU5NV5BMl5BanBnXkFtZTYwMjY3NTY3._V1._SY317_CR0,0,214,317_.jpg
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Charcoal concept art
This art is widely used as a way to display shadowing and detail of darkness upon a picture. This is very good for a persons face or a dark room as it can show the detail of the lighting upon a picture without the use of any colours but black and white and different shadoes of the two. http://dayglass.sorenlaulainen.com/concept_art/hero_charcoal_sm.jpg
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Perspective concept art
This artwork is mainly used for car designs or a landscape design for a game in order to show as a poster or as a picture how the car or landscape should be designed and if there are characters within the background where they would be placed. https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisvfX__xesRQqffYthC2v_WAIvv3jkcrjEJGeVM5CgZK6qOa4M2UfjGLpeDda1DUgQjVvDRiy6xZa_FRnzhdhTWqoignRCNlw1e0bxPQeg0vgDlX0l2MiHGo81gHqMhU5MPIVe0YtSGXc/s1600/street_perspective_small.jpg
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Wax pastel concept art
This concept art is used in order to show very good detail of a person or a landscape with colour and the shades of colours of the charatcer for a manga or anime displayed in a single picture. It is very good at showing how to create the characters clothes, armor , skin or weapons and the different colours for the landscape or person. http://stachmo.files.wordpress.com/2011/02/candy_queen.jpg
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Felt tip concept art
This concept art is created using different colours and shades of those felt tips in order to show an enviroment, landscape or a weapon of any choice. This art is specifically good for getting ideas of changing the colours for a weapon if you were allowed to choose or even creating a simple picture with a pencil and then adding colours to it with the felt tips. http://robotbash.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/sketchbook-RAN.jpg
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Fine liner and colour pencils
Fine liners arte used in order to create more detail to the pencil piuctures giving it more realistic looks and shadowings.This is great for giving a pencil drawing a more realistic look. http://i678.photobucket.com/albums/vv148/beckymalynn/GCSE%20ART/sheep_by_what_a_smile.jpg
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Colour pencils are used in order to show detail of colourings to any pencil drawing picture to bring it to life if this is either a landscape or a person froma game or even a unanimated object.
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Manga is widely used in japan when they create an anime before publishing it as an anime. This concept art is used in order to display pictures within the books or comics in order to show how the characters look like whilst the reader can read the story and find the interest within it. The drawings with manga are different to normal drawings as msot females have big eyes and the facial looks are very different to each other unless they are young kids which they have a much more similar look. http://www.uk-anime.net/images/hsotd-manga-banner.jpg
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