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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This building is a very good example of concept art been used in order to create a building as they must have planned to created this building without it having any flaws such as collapsing whilst in the progress of building the design by looking at it with sketches. 
This picture displays a image of someone who was an artist for a film and created a idea of how a character within that film would look like. Doing this would give the designers of the film an idea of the film and how the charatcer would look within that film.
This picture shows the character and why it is important to make sure that the character/ item of a film or a game or the game is important to consider when immerging them into the enviroment and the design of the character supports the enviroment rather than takes away the mood of it.
This design shows how even a car is important to design first hand before developing the car as it would be very expensive to design a car to be fast and it would turn out its design of aerodynamics is slowing the car down.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
This is a good example of a design that did not work as it was not designed through a concept art or sketches to fit well as the hands of the person are alot bigger than the wrists of the person showing a unproportional object or character which could be unnapealing to the viewer who looks at the design that was created. Using concept art for this reason helps prevent errors that may occur when designing the characters to the game and it also gives games better detail than without the concept art as there would not be any characters or good landscapes without the idea of concept arts.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
This assasins creed concept art poster is a good example of a game play poster as from the picture it shows a medieval enviroment with a dark gloomy look and signifying the assasin to great detail.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
This picture shows 4 different characters from a similar cartoon and as the detail shows it makes the charatcers look more slimmer or friendlier than they woukd in say a game or movie.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
This is a good example of a movie concept art as the detail of the spider man within the picture is much greater detail and more intimidating than the cartoon look from the previous picture.
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
The picture displays all the different shadowing a concept art using charcoal can provide and it shows a real influence of the person within the picture and the door or hall they are entering.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
As the picture displays it shows the background getting much smaller as you look to it however the whole street and characters or objects displayed are all appearing from that specific point giving you an idea of a person looking through their eyes at a landscape from an angle.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
The picture itself is very detailed and appealing however the wax pastels allow the image to be more realistic or come to life with the detail of the clothes and the lighting being more realistic with the shades of different colours and the skin colour, landscape colour and the colour of the persons hair also. This art is more detailed in showing colours and shades than a charcoals art however charcoal art can be better for showing shadowings to a picture.
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
This picture is a good example of a felt tip concept art where the artist had created the idea of a japanese warrior and then adding detail with felt tips.This art can be used for pencils to create the idea and then improved with felt tips to add on.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
This picture displays a good example of fine liners as it shows greater detail to the pencil drawing and much greater detail.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.
This picture shows good detail of how realistic colour pencils can make a regular drawing look like an actual painting.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
This picture displays very good detail of the charatcers and shows how the facial looks are very different between the male and female designs. the emotions the manga characters brings are similar to the cartoon emotions when shown in the comics or books.
