Digital Tutors - Painting a Realistic Environment Concept in Photoshop

Software used

Photoshop CS5

What you will learn

Throughout these lessons, we will learn how to paint a realistic environment concept within a short period of time.

We will start by creating thumbnails in a very unique way, then we will explore different ways of generating mood and color.

By the end of this training you will have learned many new tips and tricks in order to quickly generate environment concept art.

1. Introduction and project overview 00:55

2. Creating the rule of thirds 10:38

3. Generating thumbnails 12:38

4. Painting different thumbnails 10:11

5. Continuing to paint our thumbnails 10:07

6. Reviewing our initial thumbnails 09:11

7. Rendering the selected thumbnail 09:17

8. Communicating lighting, mood and color 09:21

9. Creating a toxic environment thumbnail 09:25

10. Creating an arctic environment thumbnail 09:20

11. Rendering our selected thumbnail sketch 09:37

12. Progressing our render 11:25

13. Adjusting colors and photo textures 10:46

14. Focusing on the small details 09:59

15. Rendering areas of importance 10:42

16. Wrapping up our concept 10:14