You use Photoshop and Painter apart from traditional pencil sketching. How useful do you think designing software is in bringing alive an artists visions?
Digital painting and design software is practically essential for concept artist these days. It’s possible for an artist to still work traditionally of course because sketching in pencil and working on something that exist in reality such as a canvas or sketchbook have their advantages. Presenting a pencil sketch has it’s own unique qualities that a digital sketch doesn’t always produce. Using software like Photoshop and Painter is important for concept art because there is a constant changing and redesigning of one idea so much so that if you worked in paint or pencil it would take you days to produce what could take hours on the computer. If you screw up on a painting you need to take time to rework the error whereas in Photoshop you can just hit Edit-Undo. It’s not just the quick undo option but it’s also the fact that you can produce multiple variations of one character design with different elements of the concept just by saving the one idea, copying it and paste multiple versions
