The Gnomon Workshop

http://www.thegnomonworkshop.com/

As part of a PPP brief I have decided to look at the online communities for someone looking at digital art and in particular concept art. This website is a bit different to my other choices due to it being a website that specialises in 3D material as well as traditional drawing and using Photoshop, this website gathers all the different mediums of creating illustrations and concept art. Many artists use 3D elements in their paintings to gather the right perspective or simply block out shapes, others actually model and texture the whole design and so I shouldn’t just focus on the photoshop/painting stuff but also how to light 3D models and modelling as well as they both link to getting proportions and form right.

What I get from Gnomon Workshops as an artist is a variety of tutorials spanning from modelling to rigging to texturing to painting. There is also a community for work feedback and as usually the process of concept art is t then go to the modellers, who better to critique your work. I did state above that this is primarily a 3D online area however they do have a small section of tutorials on Matte paintings and also a small collection of Photoshop tutorial. The biggest downside for this website as a student however is the price of the tutorials and subscriptions as they can be quite pricey.

From a personal opinion I find one other downside of the site is that it is very centered towards the realism aspect of design and less characterised. I am not going to say less stylistic because after BAF my opinion of style in a game is completely different. Realism is a style in its own but again I feel it lacks that kind of meaning.