NextGen Year 2 [Character Concept Artist Focus]

Project Titan Concept Art

NexGen Year 2

For my Year 2 I am wanting to focus a lot onto character concept design and concept art for characters. To do this I will need to improve as well as learn some new ways of drawing in different styles. I really like the cartoonist style that Overwatch has in its game as well as Blizzards Project Titan(which was rumored to be remade into what Overwatch is today). I will need to adapt my skills to become more comfortable with the cartoon design and look as I am used to drawing semi-realistic. By the end of the second year I would like to get very strong at doing character concept art and I would like to dabble a bit into character modeling.

Doing this NextGen course is one of the best parts as it helps me develop further into the job field that I want to be in.

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