75 Mind-Blowing Examples of Concept Art
Concept art is the ideas visually presented to anyone in the form of drawings, paintings, quick sketches, sculptures, thumbnails, and any type of art that defines the purpose or attempts to explain the meaning. This is a relatively new designation popularized by artists working in the automobile and video games industries. A concept is one idea with several others attached to help make that single idea work.
Combining certain elements to create a unique illustration art, that can convince even the most experienced set of eyes, requires a very creative set of skills. Here, in this article, we’ll take a look at some of the remarkable concept arts created by various artists in which all pictures are linked to the author’s pages. You may want to explore further works of the artists we’ve featured below.
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What is Concept Art?
Concept art is a form of illustration where the main goal is to convey a visual representation of a design, idea, and/or mood for use in movies, video games, animation, or comic books before it is put into the final product. Concept art is also referred to as visual development and/or concept design. Visual art is the collection of art sketches of previous drawings and ideas that make up a finished piece of art [Read More..]
Still Confused! How One Can Really Realize Concepts In Art?
To effectively realize concepts in art you need to be aware of the creative process behind anything you can think of, to brainstorm words and associated phrases and relating them to physical drawings is the standard method to creating concept art.
Concepts come and go in the minds of any creative person, and it is these vital moments that we capture an idea worth writing down in the form of notes or small thumbnail sketches. Conceptual ideas that are descriptive help to embed the best ideas and get them up on the drawing board quickly [Read More..]
Technology Used in Concept Art
In recent years concept art has embraced the use of technology. Software such as Photoshop or Corel Painter has become more easily available, as well as hardware such as Graphics tablets, enabling more efficient working methods. Prior to this (and still to this day), any number of traditional mediums such as oil paints, acrylic paints, markers, pencils, etc, etc.. Owing to this, many modern paint packages are programmed to simulate the blending of color in the same way paint would blend on a canvas; proficiency with traditional media is often paramount to a concept artist’s ability to use painting software.
Mind-Blowing Examples of Concept Art
Illustrative artwork can serve as a nice source of inspiration. We designers, can derive inspiration from almost everything around, and this collection can fulfills your various concept art inspiration related needs as representing your creative skills in your art is somewhat hot trend now days. We can promise you that when you start browsing them farther in details it will surely refresh your memory.
Concept Art Related Tutorials
- Tutorial: Create Concept Art in Photoshop
- How to Create Cityscape Concept Art
- Painting Dock from the Concept Art
- Concept Tutorial By AndreeWallin
- Speedpaint Tutorial by Samsonsreaper
Further Resources!
- Concept art entry from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- Concept art from CG Society
- Some of the famous concept artist.
- ConceptArtWorld.com
- cghub.com
- Article Front Image Source
This is so cool. I rather get these than the iPad! LOL. I love the concept of the futuristic images. ThANKS FOR THE POST!
Some of these are only concept art, other just fantasy picks. Mix of old boats etc in some post apocalypse world, and a grunge tech… 0 points
Some amazing pieces of work displayed here.
great collection
thanks for sharing this good works and mentioning the concept art in brief to understand what really it is :) once again great post from you guys
Now thats what im talking about – thanks
Lovely examples, it’s amazing how conceptual art changes everything!
Thanks for sharing :D
Just my kind of fan-tas-tic stuff…great!
Sweet.
Not evrything could be rated as stand out works. Like Geo said, most of them are like ‘as in a world of no heaven’ features. Yes, expecting more good collections, with a variety of moods depicted within.
Really nice art ! Thanks for sharing
Really Mind Blowing Arts.
I don’t think concept art should only convey distress, anxiety and dreadfulness. This works of art show great technique but put my mind in an uncomfortable state.
Just my opinion.
Really amazing pieces! Some of them are really old already maybe for interested people some newer pieces can be found on my website.
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excellent concept art collection you sharing. thanks
Amazing works. Very inspiring.
Thanks
very good you rocks
Very imaginative art, would love to see where the end up.
What a implausible and dazzling concept has been used. It is really looking mind boggling.
Super
Great..
Frederic’s art is the best :) I like this artist ))
…. awesome collection of Concept Art, along with the best explanation of the term and of the form of a relatively new style of art, I thank the author of this post, “DKumar M.”…. who is actually one of the creators of “iShift” !!
Awesome Art, loved it. Really great list. Thanks ! :)
All mind-blowing and awesome. If I can ever make digital drawings/paintings a tenth as good as these I’ll die happy. Glad you included OmeN2501 from deviantART. I love his work.
the world in future
These images reminds me a lot about Steve McGhee’s works
http://www.amusingplanet.com/2009/11/apocalyptic-illustrations-of-steve.html
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Great Beautiful stuff from talented people…
Thanks for sharing
The Mik
Wow, these are incredible.
Transformers concept just wow!
Excellent piece of work. I wonder how much time it takes them to design / create these graffitis?
I simply love concept art
Lovely! I really like ones that seems to be steampunk and fantasy landscapes from ancient times :D
These are amazing. Super creative and imaginative and all things that are good.
Cool. Not really conceptual art though.
The arts are attractive, I enjoyed all of them. But so far I learnt about conceptual art, these are not of that kind.