Environment Concept Art - Frell

Sharing my design process for the small village called Frell from my personal IP "Haven".
I hope you guys like it, despite my frequent rambling :D
Thanks for watching!
Artstation: www.artstation.com/gradyart
Insta: / gradyfrederick
Twitter: / gradesfrederick

[@gradyfrederickart]

Hey everyone, just wanted to thank you all again for your comments and your feedback, it really does mean alot. I hope to release more content soon once work slows down a bit. You guys are the best!

[@superpyrrhocorax]

I know this is 2 years old but it's helped me SO MUCH, thank you for posting it

[@ernesin149]

man.. you just gave us like.. an AMAZING MASTER CLASS. Thank you so much for sharing!! for real!

[@gradyfrederickart]

You're too kind, it's my pleasure! Thanks for watching dude!

[@Thesamurai1999]

I can render in black and white, I can also do color. But for some reason going from black and white to color is really difficult for me, the colors end up looking so uncanny and unreal in an unpleasant way.

[@BigCMiner]

Youre not the only one brother

[@boooo6789]

As I child I loved being in nature and I sketched and painted all day every day but during my early teens, for some reason, I just stopped. After I had finished school I had difficulties deciding how to move on and, looking back at my childhood interests, I decided to enroll in an ecology program in university and right now I am working to finish my PhD thesis in plant physiology. Sadly I have been struggling with mild depressive periods over the years but recently I finally figured out the reason. It's all because back then I chose the wrong path. I do love nature, but it's the atmosphere, the magic, the wonders that inspire me - not the cold mechanistic science. Since I realized that I picked up pen and brushes again, treated myself with a nice graphic tablet and started painting again. It's indescribable - I suddenly feel alive again. It is a bit as if I snapped out of a decade long half-awake delirium. That being said, I would like to thank you, Grady, for all the content you put up on YT and artstation. Especially the Environment Design courses on Artstation proved to be invaluable for me. I learned so much and am able to finally channel my creative energy a bit better. And the videos and samples of your creative work give me something to look up to. You manage to capture the atmosphere, the magic, the wonders, that I crave so desperately, just masterfully. Thank you!

[@gradyfrederickart]

Wow thank you so much for this comment, I am really touched by this. You seem quite introspective and I admire your courage in reflecting on your path and pursuing and old passion. Thankyou for this, you have sincerely inspired me.

[@joserodrigoartstudio1384]

Estupendo amigo me encanta !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@Anthween1]

Omy jehesus, this is like the definition of a hidden gem, thank you so much for taking the time to make this tutorial!

[@suedaniel9982]

Very beautiful. Thanks so much for showing us your processes.

[@LiMaking]

I really appreciate all this. I'm about to start on a concept for an application to a game creation art course, and I already felt stressed even though I have almost 2 months do make it. They don't even need to you actually have taken art class to apply, but I didn't get in last year and was only a reserve, and now I've finished 3 art courses to apply again. stakes feel high. Seeing you allowing yourself to be so free about it makes me more calm, and makes me allow myself to think about having fun with it.

[@tybertimus]

As of recently I finally have a reason to finally push into environment art. I've been combing through the internet looking for good starting help, and I ended up here! Glad I did. I hope you continue to share what you can/will with us.

[@TangomelonArt]

I'm not used to doing environmental painting and I've been trying something new. I've been stuck on a painting for the last couple of days and this helped me so much. You explained the process very well and I'm glad you show the whole process including the reality of going back and redoing things that don't work right away because that's something people struggle with while they're learning and it's nice it hear that it's okay.

[@Sharp_Calidore]

Mate you improved like crazy that year, these are like world class paintings, keep up great work 🎉

[@torilewandowska1868]

I've been really enjoying your videos on ArtStation Learning and I'm so happy to see you have a youtube channel! Really love how you talk about the process and thoughts behind everything. It all just makes so much sense. In the ArtStation series, you've mentioned that in your personal projects you like to take time and paint everything by yourself but I'd love to see how you work with photos as well when you want to speed things up! Anw, great work!

[@gasmasksamurai9020]

LOVED the whole video!! Something that stood out is that you legitimately gave us the full experience - Even though you called the detail-adding process the "most boring part" you still left it in. I can't even begin to express my disappointment at any artist that just skips a BIG chunk of the process and says "Alright here's the finished piece, no one wants to look at 3 hours worth of detail work". Well, me and all my creative friends definitely take a lot of notes from that specific part of the process. Watching you work is a grand experience! Cheers!

[@dominikmueller2378]

This is absolutely amazing, I myself - as many others here - try to teach themselves art and how to get good enough to make a living, your videos are an absolute tresure trove of inspiration and learnings, thank you so much for sharing your thoughts and processes! I hope you know how much impact you have on people like myself!

[@filipathomaz9219]

Hey there! I recently just stumbled upon your videos here on yt and it was with great interest that i watched them all. I'm an aspiring videogame artist. I'm still a student completing her first year in college, and just like I thought, I really absolutely love creating concept art. It has always fascinated me not only looking at game concept art, but also reading the notes left by the art directors explaining some decisions made along the way. And maybe this is a bit personal, but I guess there's this one thing that I'm still trying to wrap my head around. College isn't like in highschool, where you have assignments that you have to do a certain way because that's what you need to do for a class, only for that work to be unrelated to the real world, in a way. So far, after this first semester, I can happily verify that that's not the case in college. If feels like I'm being taught how to properly do things, because that's the steps everyone else follows in the work industry. It's not just because I have to do things a certain way for an assignment, no. It's because this is the work process that everyone should follow. I've watched your commentary videos, and honestly it is so gratifying and still mind blowing to see you start your projects with a moodboard or a couple of reference pictures, and then moving onto thumbnails, doing silhouette work and then color studies, not only for the environment itself but then for other assets like houses and so on and so forth, and hearing you talk about how important this all is for the creative process. I don't know if what I've said makes sense to you, but it makes me so incredibly happy, and i admire it a lot. I don't know if you're ever gonna read this, but I have 2 questions for you. One, I know you've come a long way to get to where you're at right now, and I'm sure you still see a lot of room for improvement in your own artwork. You've quickly become an artist that I admire, not only for your art, but also for being relatable in a way, considering the point i made above. I was wondering if you'd ever consider making a video showing some of your early concept art, so we can sort of see the baby steps you took to get to the level where you're at right now. I'd be really thankful, and it'd be something inspiring for me. And my question no. 2, is if you'd have any tips for coming up with different thumbnails when you're trying to come up with a solid idea (if you'd prefer, this could be talked about in a video too). In a way, how could we expand on our creativity? Is it just through references? Because there are a lot of things that are purely fantasy/ things you don't see in the real world, so how does one get to those ideas? Again, I don't know if you'll ever see this, or respond to this, but if you do, thank you for reading, and thank you for contributing with your work.

[@acidboards]

I saw this painting on Artstation a few days ago, really happy to find this video being shared in a small artist discord server. Thanks for sharing your thoughts and process.

[@tokyorose1123]

Great video man, thank you so much for putting this content out there. You summed it up really well when you talked about seeing something, even if it seems similar, but from someone else’s perspective. It’s those times for me where a tip or technique that I may have heard mentioned before but didn’t resonate all of a sudden just clicks. And discussing what it means to “work fast”. There’s so much value in observing other peoples methods. Beautiful work and style. Thanks again.

[@MoeWanders]

One of the best, most informative art videos I've seen. Thanks so much for this!

[@Rook818]

Wow. I need to learn how to sketch like this. I love how you were able to pull off so many interesting sketches.

[@DrDellov]

You made amazing job with commentary and painting. You said a lot of things that're important in environment concept art. I'm glad I found you and waiting for more videos ! Ofc for raw paiting too !

[@StephaneCharre]

Instant sub! This is the stuff I'm looking for a while! What a talent you have, love your work!

[@Sageoftheforest7]

This is absolutely amazing!

[@zonko8291]

This video is great, I love how you showed and explained the whole process of designing the piece. So many "concept art" videos on youtube are just 30 minute speedpaintings from a blank canvas without commentary or design process. I'd be interested in the black and white to color video you mentioned as well. Keep up the great work, I look forward to more videos!

[@hotkazio]

I can definitely tell this is advance lvl advice!! Really great! I appreciate how you just paint without value sketch first !! Next lvl!! Cool shapes! Well done!!

[@krazywiki]

Best concept art class I’ve seen outside cgma. You are fantastic.

[@kOziCo]

Your art is incredible and the info you share is so valuable. To me, how candid you are adds an extra level of authenticity that feels very motivating. Thank you for the video, please keep up the great stuff!

[@ChowwuArt]

Thanks for high quality record! Inspiring a lot from your concept art process!

[@pouchpouchpouch]

Man! one you're my new fav KZbin artist 😮 so powerful art

[@lukabaric7017]

saw this on insta was so exited for the vid

[@sunflowervl2821]

your channel is a masterpiece.

[@kasabello]

Impressive! Thanks for all the useful tips you've given throughout the video

[@michiel-vdheuvel]

Great painting. And hearing your thoughts is very useful.

[@danhdao7417]

New level!!! I should practice this more in my free time instead of wasting time on matte painting.

[@francisco.landa.artist]

This is gold, thanks for sharing.

[@szabrinamaharita1352]

I love that you paint directly onto one layer, thats my style as well, I can relate more with this process so I can easier improve with your advices. Make more of these please, I subscribed:)

[@kad_2000]

super helpful video man, thank you! can't wait to see more from your channel, awesome stuff! I'd love to see a vid on your process on making those mood sketches as well :)

[@Overcraft17]

I love your work man :D I started my journey into environment concept art with your tutorial video. Thank's a lot for sharing your process :)

[@gradyfrederickart]

Thankyou! I always love to hear about someone starting a new art journey :D I wish you all the best

[@brandonjacksoon]

Dude, amazing! AMAZING! liked and subscribed! Thank you for this tutorial!

[@munchinbiscuits]

That was fantastic mate, thank you.

[@ViktoriaOver]

Hello, Grady. When I saw this painting of yours, I was blow away by the brush work. I am doing some sort of master study of this piece, in a way "how would I paint that". Thank you so much for amazing video! It helps tremendously!

[@shawnlooyen1906]

Nice one bud. Inspirational work

[@andrews1194]

i can't really explain how much i love ur videos. THANK you :)

[@gradyfrederickart]

So nice of you, thanks so much for subbing :)

[@florianheroldart]

I feel exactly the same about the Fable games, great stuff!

[@MiaMia7_7i]

Masterpiece!

[@maelmartin2202]

such a beautiful video of the process, an excellent speech, you have motivated and reassured me so much on the issue of speed, I am always putting pressure on myself for the speed, so thank you!

[@gradyfrederickart]

Thanks, I'm really glad to hear that! Doing things right and enjoying the process will always be more valuable than getting it done as quick as possible.

[@emrekulac3207]

awesome designs in this one, i love it

[@moh-rezahmadi177]

So cool!!!

[@paramnesias9198]

Hi. Portuguese trying to learn concept art and struggling. Just found out about you and this video. Great help and useful insights. Thank you for sharing the knowledge.

[@alicegastaldon1853]

you are awesome. i love your videos, keep doing it, i love listening to you, i'm not as awesome as you are but you inspire me and that's important to me, so if there's a fan in your world, i'm that person!

[@An.Unsought.Thought]

This was a great video! Perfect timing for me too. I definitely want to start doing more of these types of environment concepts; landscapes / structures. The world building is what I am interesting in. Been focusing too much on character props. But I am hoping to have a portfolio based around essentially what you showed in this video. Also biotic and abiotic asset design rather than character props, I think I'll love designing things that play a role in a games ecosystem to help a player or viewer feel more immersed in the world. Also you are doing a great job! Definitely got a sub from me. Don't worry, you will get better over time. Most of the art KZbinrs I watch, its like day and night when you compare content now from content during their first year. But if it helps I think you are doing much better, quality-wise, than most people when they just start out!

[@gradyfrederickart]

Thanks for this! It definitely helps to hear it. I can identify where I want to improve, but as we all know it's not that simple haha it will take time and practice and repetition.

[@christopheyoungart]

Great video man! A lot of great insight:)

[@RobertoDomeArt]

wow this video is a full course :O amazing video and result . Thanks for sharing

[@chen1341]

oh my god was just checking youtube and saw you uploaded!! excited to watch this :)

[@gradyfrederickart]

Thank you!

[@fabricemorisset6810]

so great! thanks for sharing!

[@MarcoValeKaz]

Excellent video. Its got all the right things about a process video. Good art, good narration, good structure and specially, really good reasoning and information. I hope you make more like these!

[@gradyfrederickart]

Thanks! I plan to make more :D

[@grigoryg.311]

Very correct and useful thoughts and tutorial. Thanks. I like your style

[@worksofarn429]

I love your works 😍😮

[@Makkhariel]

Great work and content man, keep it up !

[@lukabaric7017]

you have an incredible ability to communicate, a lot if introverted artists just want to throw up the art but your explanation is worth a lot

[@abonorah483]

goooooooooood kzbin.info/www/bejne/f4fKaYFuiaefoJY

[@gradyfrederickart]

Thankyou so much!

[@dxdx5638]

TQ for sharing your work + process.

[@petterstone7808]

So useful, learned a lot ! Thanks man !

[@NickOroc]

Fun stuff bud! Keep slayin

[@phipsart6424]

thanks for doing this!

[@csabajekkel8062]

So inspiring video! Keep this kind of stuff coming! :)

[@ByBase]

Hey Grady, you´re doing great! keep it up!

[@sameerasajith7759]

wow...that's amazing......

[@steven-dm8bp]

many thanks ya answered a lot of unanswered questions had many thanks

[@greedmarks7478]

Grady what's up, where content :D but seriously, I admire your insane skills level - besides your thoughts about practising are super valuable. I stuck watching 100000 videos a day, thinking I will magically improve.. watching all these videos is kind of a trap, but listening to something like you've just presented here, it's pure gold imo. I am now on my cintiq painting stuff and listening to your videos. Make-some-more sir !

[@graphicanjelo]

You are a great teacher! But I wonder why there are only 3 videos?? please make more of them and inspire us! Just subscribed for more!!

[@doomerbox]

Great video! Thank you 😊

[@sirirassap6916]

Your content is really helpful, hope you'll post more

[@LatticeMage]

amazing. thx for sharing

[@saem901901]

This is good mate! Subscribed!

[@nehuenherrero1271]

Great video and very useful

[@antonlin81]

Love it

[@ahmetnergiz6038]

Wow! This was really helpful. Thnk you so much! keep it up!!

[@1986DreD]

Great!

[@renzrivas6261]

so niceeeeee

[@kes5629]

its awesome

[@yojimbe7804]

excellent enviro and video! goodjob! 👍

[@gradyfrederickart]

Thanks!

[@nicolasolguin2195]

Hey just wanted to thank you for your videos. Although there are only three of them they are very helpful. Hope you can come back someday. Your concept process is enlightening I'm definitely going to make a list on the steps you took on this concept to use it as a guideline whenever I'm creating my personal work. Thanks once again.

[@ballsackdrake]

Amazing video. Keep posting

[@matheusmartins6658]

Hey Grady thank you very much for making this video, and talking about the process and share your toughts about the process, I feel that we put too much pression in ourselves to get better and do artworks faster, I migrate to do environment design recently, and I think that I found me in art, and in the end its about enjoy the journey and the process, and do things that we like.

[@gradyfrederickart]

I couldn't agree more! We must not forget why we pursue art in the first place. Letting work, social media, and what's popular suck the joy out of the process is just counter-intuitive. Thanks for you comment :)

[@montysarkar995]

I would love to learn more from you 💓

[@Apt22Art]

I've been drawing and painting my entire life, and recently transitioned into a full time professional artist. I bounce back and forth between traditional and digital media. Right now, I'm learning how to work with a pen display for the first time. I just wanted to say THANK YOU. You're videos are exactly what I needed. You might not realize it, but you have a wonderful knack for putting the process into words. I can't tell you how helpful your channel has been.

[@ibanez2010]

Can you give a brief outline of how you transitioned to a FT artist? Are you working for a studio?

[@h82l8]

Thank you ❤

[@gradyfrederickart]

Thanks for watching :)

[@digitalcanvas7628]

Nice Work...

[@feliperamos9191]

lesgooo

[@thoriqthrzz2232]

fantastic, inspire me a lot, what brush do you use!

[@sandypickleuwu]

Hey! Been enjoying the Artstation courses recently, but I was wondering if you have your brush pack anywhere. The brush you used in part 1 (size 92) is a texture I've been looking for, but I can't find it anywhere. I noticed you included a brush pack in Part 3, but it doesn't have the brush I'm looking for and I realized you didn't include all of them in that pack. Anywhere I can access the brushes you use? Haven't been able to find them

[@user-pt2ge9zn5i]

sorry can i ask you do you think that the size (17 inch) for screen display tablet is prohibitive for a professional concept artist? (I intend to give it as a gift to a friend who is a professional) the product we are referring to is the wacom cintiq pro 17

[@goodbalancegaming8427]

do you use music or some sound ambient to get you in mood?

[@fabbyy7253]

I have a question on this actually, you said this wasn't about drawing fundamentals and i absolutely respect it, but I wonder when you do these scetches and lay in houses that are really not precise at all in their form. In what way do you actually think about perspective? Do you decide on the blank canvas, well this is gonna be a 2 point or 1 point perspective or is the process more. Well i want this big house okay I want this to look interesting i'll show this in 2 point perspective and then this next little house should lead the eye towards that point so I'll place it this way. And the more I go down that conversation with myself i feel like I can very quickly forget about even deciding on an overall perspective at all? I'd be very curious as to what your thought process there is.

[@tayshaunsteele8461]

Does anyone know how to get the brushes he uses in clip studio?

[@mikhailfomin9746]

Hello, Grady. I was watching your tutorial at artstation, where you mentioned an artist by whom you were inspired. It sounded like John Heart, or Hart, or somthng like that, but any way i couldn`t find any media of him on youtube or artstation, or even at google. would you please share a link to his website or youtube page, or even give a correct name, to find his media by myself. Thank you very much. Your tutorial is awesome. totally. Thankyour for that great opportunity to dive into env. design. Be cool ))

[@_benk]

Possibly John Park? Look him up

[@mikhailfomin9746]

@@_benk apreciate

[@mariuszarczewski]

nice :)[

[@montysarkar995]

Bro please make video for beginners

[@mastergundyr1972]

The Insta link in the bio isnt working :)

[@gradyfrederickart]

Fixed, thanks for letting me know! :D

[@mastergundyr1972]

@@gradyfrederickart np man, awesome video, it is mesmorising to watch you paint

[@kym966]

you like to draw on the corner bottom right of the monitor my friend