ABOUT THE CLASS

Storytelling & Worldbuilding in Concept Art

• Why I decided to teach this class: A lot of classes focus on technical skills or very basic worldbuilding. I believe my creativity and strength in design/worldbuilding have enabled me to find success in my career.  I’d like to share a design and story focused course for people at different levels in their journey. Every part of your project will be brimming with life and personality, so I really encourage you to take time to brainstorm some ideas before we start.

This is a design heavy workshop with a focus on worldbuilding and adding personality to your work. Basic perspective knowledge required. This class will be taught from the ground up! Skills you’ll be working on are:

• Design from a story focused lens

• Composition

• Making a cohesive story from start to finish

• Developing a professional workflow from reference gathering to thumbnailing and being comfortable making design iterations.

• Generating ideas and helping yourself get out of “drawing block”

• Basic Blender (and I mean basic!)

9 WEEKS - $600

Why this price? I went to a state school in Texas that didn’t have an illustration program or anything close to a concept art program. This led me to find online classes and resources. These classes were really expensive, and not everyone can afford them.  I want to design this class with that in mind. This for those of us who don’t have access to “premium” classes, are ballin’ on a budget, or are unsure of what kind of steps to take next in your career.

• Why this length? I want to be sure we can complete a full portfolio project with a little buffer room built in. No stress, lots of fun!

• Small class size: I’d like to keep this to 8 students so we have plenty of time to critique, do a lecture, and watch a demo.

• This will be a homework heavy class. You can adjust the project scope according to your schedule (and I’ll help with that)!

• I will be recording demos! You’ll have access to the videos after class ends. I’ll also be making a lecture for the bulk of the weeks.

Week 1: Character creation and world building basics!

• We need to know all about your character in order to build your world. But before that, let’s figure out your personal mythology! What do you like to draw, what kind of stories do you like to see? We’ll work through my creative process to start a project that’s brimming with life.

• Ideating, reference gathering, thumbnailing

• Why I don’t care about drawing style

Week 2: Prop Design

• Enhance your story and worldbuilding with props! Is your character an adventurer? A cook? What kind of items can we give to them to help show their personality and life.

• Create 3 props
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Week 3: Creating the environment piece by piece! Building design

• Let’s start small! Design a house for your character! This can be a hideout, a cottage, or a house. Keep it on the simpler side so we can design a nice environment and have your building be the star!

• Thumbnailing and concepting houses.

• Playing Barbie mentality: Dress up your designs appropriately.

Week 4: Building design part 2 & easy 3d blockouts

• Finishing the building design, doing some close ups & callouts

• Learn how to use Blender to block out scenes and help with complex perspective.
   

Week 5 & 6: Interior Cutaway and Catch Up week

• We are going inside! Let’s design a cool interior with our step-by-step process! Thumbnail, ref gather, and doodle your floorplan.

• How to break up the square floorplan

• Making your house catered to your character and enhance the story
   

Week 7: Keyframe part 1

• It’s time to put all of our pieces together and show off the story!

• Learn how to ideate story moments

• Explore storytelling with different camera angles
   

Week 8: Keyframe part 2

• Continue

• Add mood with value
   

Week 9: Final Presentations and guest speaker(s)!

• We’ll take a look at everyone’s final project and get final crits!

• Guest speaker(s) for a Q&A and more feedback!