Tonal Sketching - Concept Art Workflow

This is my new favorite thing and has quickly become my go-to workflow when I need to produce a high volume of concepts efficiently. Tonal sketching! Half shape carving, half value painting and in many ways (but not all!) the best of both worlds.

Check out this really cool and useful technique and watch a painting take shape in the background.

FREE BRUSHES! If you'd like the brushes that I'm using, they can be found in the freebies channel in the DPS Discord https://www.digitalpaintingstudio.com...

0:00 - Intro
0:48 - Shapes Are Everything
2:45 - Workflow Steps / Brushes
4:28 - Efficiency
5:43 - Highlight Shapes
7:54 - Use With Caution
11:02 - Why I Love This
12:26 - Wrap Up

Marco Bucci's fantastic video about going from grayscale to color (and why you shouldn't):    • Grayscale To Color Art Process ... an...  

Christophe Young's Amazing channel:    / @christopheyoungart  

Detectives in the DPS community tracked down the video I couldn't remember about character silhouettes. It's a great Feng Zhu video (this channel changed my life!)    • Design Cinema - Episode 107 - How to ...  

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Hardy Fowler is a professional Digital Painter with work seen in productions for Disney, Magic the Gathering, Warhammer 40K among many others.

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