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Hey Concepteez,
is the current featured artist of this group and we thought it'd be a great idea to ask Vlad to give us an insight into his process.
Vlad also shared with us his latest piece and talks us through his inspirations and how this piece came about.
We really hope you take something away from this feature and work hard on your skills to be featured here one day.
Please introduce yourself to the group?
My name is Vlad Gheneli and I'm a 25 year old concept artist based in Bucharest, Romania.
Your area of interest?
I am focusing on sci-fi and fantasy environments, sometimes vehicles too.
Your background?
I've been drawing since forever, but I got really serious about this a couple of years ago, when I bought a graphic tablet and decided to go digital. I've studied hard, followed a lot of artists, Daniel Dociu being the one that inspires me the most. Right now I'm pretty satisfied with how my paintings turn up, so I want to focus more on my concept ideas.
Present occupation?
I'm currently working at a small company in Bucharest and we're focusing on short animations, small games and comic books. Not exactly the path I'm looking for, but I've learned a lot in here, I'm drawing every day and we have a wonderful team.
Red kingdom
I usually start a painting with a general idea in my mind. This time I was assigned to paint a castle with the surroundings in its kingdom, that has a fantasy feel, fairytale alike but still with a medieval mood. Also, given the name Red Kingdom, I had to use as much red as possible, but without reaching lava rivers and an ashland look. Also needed to be on higher grounds. I figured it would be cool to actually have a long road to the castle, maybe even something happening on the way there - some traps or maybe some golems rising.
I use a perspective grid almost all the time, I often like using a 3 point perspective, it's much more dramatic. If things get complicated I use Google SketchUp to render a quick perspective, but I usually like building the perspective myself.
I used my Wacom Intuos 4 medium tablet I have at work, Photoshop CS5 and it took about 14-16 hours I guess.
Where do you find your inspiration?
I get my inspiration from all sort of shapes and objects that I see around in nature, but the ideas usually just hit me without warning and when I put them on canvas more ideas come up and the result is often different, but most of the times better than the initial idea. I like to improvise a lot. I'm not the type that has everything settled even before starting to paint.
Achieving depth in your pieces
The depth is achieved by working with values. The best way to practice is working in grayscale mode, using only grays. Your composition should contain values ranging from pure white, to pure black, where the pure black is used for elements that are very close or even in line with the camera, and pure white (which should not be overused) is present where the strongest light source is and, of course, where the farthest elements are.
Another way of achieving depth is by painting similar objects and, as you place them further in the background, they go smaller. This way, the human eye can understand that they're the same elements, but one of them is smaller so it has to be further away.
If you want to master depth I can recommend Feng Zhu, he has some nice tutorials and he is obsessed with depth www.youtube.com/user/FZDSCHOOL
Vlad's favourites pieces:
If you prefer Vlad's style of work, be sure to visit his gallery here vladgheneli.deviantart.com/
We would like to take this opportunity to thank Vlad for taking the time to write this article and working with us in inspiring the community.
Keep up the hard work everyone,
This group is going offline....
Dear Concepteez,
It is with regret I have to say that the group that was born out of nothing and helped us all get to know each other has unfortunately run it's course and we just don't have the resources or the energy to support the running of this group anymore.
This group was really fun, I personally learnt a lot by hanging out with the coolest artists in the world and now the social media has evolved enough to allow us to easily host contest without much of the admin that DA requires. I had a chat with monkeybread (https://www.deviantart.com/monkeybread) and he eluded to this fact, I just wanted to see it for myself.
What is going to happen to the gallery you ask?
Well,
Bi-Weekly Contest Re-Launch!
Hey Concepteez,
We hope you all enjoyed having that extra day off work Monday, filled with creative projects and Tea. :w00t:
Let's kick off with a contest Vehicle round
The theme will be "Tokyo Bike". ;)
We decided to give the winner something extra; A $5 cash prize. [via paypal only]
The winner and the contenders may see their work featured in our next Concepteez's issue.
Make sure your work is of a high standard (a4 size) and save wip shots to be qualified.
:bulletgreen: 46th Bi-weekly contest: Vehicle round Contest –"Tokyo Bike" .
You all have two weeks from now to finish your entry. There is a timer on the front page which cou
Friday Feature 18th May 2018
Dear Concepteez,
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From looking at the featured images this week it is clear that every artist enhanced the emotional appeal or hooked us in a way that makes us want to explore further and dive deeper into the meaning behind the brush strokes.
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Big News
Hello Everyone,
I hope you all are well?
As you all know we've been having some technical issues in the group.
We've been discussing this for some time, and with no further ado we are absolutely delighted to announce
:party: :spotlight-left:~GDSWorld (https://www.deviantart.com/gdsworld) :spotlight-right: :party: GD is returning to Conceptworld! :glomp:
He's decided to re-join the team after taking a sabbatical to focus on his career, and will be taking on some interesting challenges as we move forwards as a team :pc:
We all look forward to working and building the group together
Onwards and upwards!
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A great artist who always is an inspiration for me when it comes to composition, colors and lighting!