Character Concepting Process - Loose Sketch to Final Painting

[@ProkoTV]

Thanks Dave! You can find more of his work on Instagram - instagram.com/davegreco/

[@jpitdrawfessional]

Really loved your videos. Helps me a lot to improve my art. Please help me also. Aspiring youtuber here. Appreciate it. Thank you so much.

[@yourpersonalspammer]

Google is blocking your video "Deliberate Practice - The Secret of Getting Good Fast" with an age verification wall. Do you intend to contest that process? This is ART. Not porn.

[@丁丁-j1v]

Can you do a video that maps the human fat. Thanks proko.

[@DaveGreco]

Thank you so much Proko for giving me a shot on here! I hope everyone can take something away from how I bumble through a piece. :)

[@bearynicebear]

Go Dave! You put out a lot of great free stuff!

[@dorcohen9808]

Legit adore your stuff

[@hossel_]

Thank you for doing this demonstration! This was super informative, especially the early lighting parts. I really feel this helped me with making my own proccess more effective.

[@ScottWinterbourne]

Awesome video Dave. Great to see you and Proko working together. Love your KZbin video and your Twitch channel.

[@Esradel]

I just discovered your channel yesterday through the greyscale to color vid and it was great seeing you on Proko's channel today! Awesome video, thanks for all you do!

[@ezekielgrind7152]

Love the way stan's bringing knowledge and artistic intellectuality to the modern world I mean you could pick from a variety of industry professionals to learn from

[@mikeymegamega]

Dave X Proko! YES!!!

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[@dedmen9713]

The mikey lord of the booba

[@anumameer1112]

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[@emaginenations]

Damn... the fascination of watching a pro work is just something...

[@brianmartin3871]

I can say this feels like the most art class session I've been in for a years. Right when when I think of a question in my head..theres an approach or answer..I love this style.

[@Nkookdmin_07]

3:10 So basically.. figure out what YOU want, then look for references to properly execute it. Genius!

[@demeterstidbits7146]

YOU’VE BEEN GETTING EVERYONE ON THIS CHANNEL LATELY LOVE DAVE’S WORK SO MUCH!!!

[@CuriousTrotter]

I can't believe Proko managed to get Ryan Reynolds

[@MasterTow1994]

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[@Kokose]

@@MasterTow1994 cmon, Dave is more than that, he's too good for wish

[@RSidd]

Lmao

[@RottenSkull]

What a charming guy. Thanks again, Proko, for bringing all these artists together to share their knowledge and insights. They are invaluable to aspiring artists

[@startpage717]

Like that your background in your studio space is calm. This allowed me to focus on what you are doing....

[@linttastic]

Yay Dave!!! His work is awesome, but he's so down to earth and offers so much help and information on how he works. Such a cool dude!

[@jodyangel]

I play World of Warcraft. I am fan of the art style. It was fun watching him work. I’m a messy artist at the beginning stages as well. Got inspiration today. Trent Kanuiga is another concept artist I watch here on KZbin.

[@DonutGroove]

really like how you used the sketch in the coloring process, I think it preserves much of the original idea/feeling instead of coloring a clean up

[@MetriceBell]

He's a beautiful space pirate vampire uncle. I love the lighting technique. Thank you so much for this tutorial

[@charlesdube6118]

Not gonna lie Mister Greco does simplify a lot with his explanation & process... he makes it seem like its attainable for other ''less talented artist like me''

[@megahiperence]

The closed eye was so disturbing that I spent couple minutes observing how closing an eye affects it’s position relatively to the other one so now I know that both parts close almost equally and the line should be where the bottom of the other eye is. It’s funny how I learned it 😂

[@jrm6872]

I learned a few things from this. 1. don't think about what you're doing 2. don't organize your layers 3. ??? 4. profit

[@76HabeasCorpus]

This is great, I completely get the whole messy start up and finding interesting shapes in the looseness of the initial sketch, that process for me is one of the most exciting parts of drawing a piece of artwork.

[@PoeartEksund]

I love this! The black and white guy is the older guy looking back to his younger more colourful days. They are so different but i love them both.

[@wisesquirrel4986]

I just wanted to share that I really enjoyed watching this video. Just watching someone else draw and talk about his thought process was incomprehensibly soothing. I don't spend any time on drawing anymore, but this is one the highlights of my day.

[@HONCHOSCALES]

Love your work I stopped drawing 3 years ago and now I wanna start so I can advance into animation especially bringing marvel and DC animation into life from comics. But I gotta start doing anatomy and all again but thanks to your stuff, it's a boost

[@krsdivz2378]

It's so refreshing to hear another artist encourage to keep lines loose and to even keep the under drawing. Also learned more about painting ugly. Too many channels emphasizing on "confident" lines. I personally have always liked the look of the loose sketch, and whenever I erased The loose lines in traditional sketching I feel like I've lost something

[@gazellemarsh2583]

Stan, I love this art content that you've been putting out. Drawing characters is such a widespread desire for a lot of artists. Learning how to draw characters in different ways is extremely helpful . I appreciate you and Dave's contribution to the art community. I love these character - related videos. Keep them coming.

[@byolomonstar4526]

I freaking loved every stage that went through each part

[@di_anso]

yay it's Dave!! I'm so happy to see him here. I voted for him to be one of the guests at the Draftsmen podcast, and I still have hope :D

[@lamego1992]

So interesting to see someone so renown being so honest about having "mistakes keeping us company throughout the process". I personally get so lost sometimes into correcting those mistakes and I eventually get stuck with a over-synthetic feeling to the painting. Very interesting breakdown of the process, the comments are really encouraging!

[@fabianvanheesewijk]

This might be one of my favorite art tutorials ever.

[@giulyanoviniciussanssilva2947]

The conceptual artist of the conceptuals, I feel at home.

[@GabeWilliams]

Love it! He kind of gives me younger/skinnier Hades vibes.

[@TanyerLamb]

I love how this inadvertently turned into a portrait of Lemmy. Great video.

[@guilhermesousa227]

my dudes! thanks for inviting dave

[@momo-xh3bm]

OMG . Really quick and nice concept work. I love pretty much the lighting did here. ❤

[@maxalvarez5564]

The character reminds me of something I would see in one of my DnD campaigns, super sick! totally basing an npc on the vibe and attitude I got from this piece, Amazing

[@raz5307]

i learned a lot from this wow! i know there's a huge chunk of information missing when i watch pro artists do their work, and now that huge gap has been filled thanks to this step-by-step process. this looks a bit messy but it is actuallt very systematic lol idk how to explain. everything just comes off in the right way at the end. thank you so much dave!

[@cherrymarriedindiscord1404]

I take the color palette and the mess-to-inspire approach! Thank you!!

[@Moffafa]

Thank you Dave for taking the time to cover your workflow, processes, and thoughts while you concept this piece and thanks Proko for always sharing very helpful content such as this.

[@crios8307]

As a bw style lover, i thank you so much for this tutorial. I never got so comfortable with colours as with grey values, so seeing this process and the result it can get really inspired me to just trust myself a bit more.

[@BradGqunit]

My main sources of inspiration and education, in a collab video?.. I wasn't ready.

[@karstafarius]

Dave is my favorite artist

[@19demian]

this guy inspired me with his process of painting... and as a fan of dave it felt refreshing hear him talk with upbeat bg music 😂

[@bearoyay]

Dave embodies the loosey goosey style.

[@simonasfinearts2912]

Dave, I'm so glad that you are showcasing your art on Proko's channel. I'm more of a hands-on artist, but I'll definitely share this video with family and friends who are now trying out digital art.

[@standard2659]

That undead pirate had QUITE the glow up. GGs. Beautiful piece.

[@nmahai137]

The thumbnail so familar to me cause the art style then Dave in the video . AH HAH I KNEW IT !

[@RoseDragoness]

I love the moustache! I think I like it more on part where you start having that moustache than the finished art. The finished art feels too smooth for me.

[@TK-421_66]

Dave on Proko? Hype

[@Drawingracoon]

Thank you so much for this. It really gave me boost to see the process of such artist . I thought i was the only one who figure things out along the way.

[@paramnesias9198]

Excellent teacher and very nice and understandable process. Thank you.

[@christianissick]

Proko this is so good.. the fact that you invited Dave to share his knowledge... I do hope to see Max Grecke someday giving knowledge on your channel someday 🥺🙏🏽

[@nicks931]

Mind = Blown In the first 5 minutes. Thanks for the inspiration and information

[@kyletwebster]

Wow - superb lighting.

[@kehmesis]

An absolute joy to watch. Thank you.

[@sophiel2323]

Really enjoyed seeing this process! It's great to see a successful professional with a sketchy, messy, experimental method of working - this is also my preferred way of painting. I have felt pressure to change and be more methodical and clean... but this has helped me feel a lot better about it. :D

[@renjoyart]

It's really cool to see a professional artist who has just as messy process of drawing as I do :D and I don't think it's very common. But yeah, going with the artistic flow is what makes drawing so fun to me!

[@silverblue73]

The random lines serve (at least) three purposes: 1) your hand is moving and your brain is engaged, the creative engine is started, 2) building up structure, there's something there now, and 3) playing with pareidolia based on those suggestions.

[@syenet02]

I'm only halfway through the video, but it just dawned on me that I'm invested in this character. I want to know more about him. This is genuinely the first time this has happened looking at a picture.

[@desertdwellintom]

That Orc DK portrait gets me everytime.

[@christianissick]

Seriously mate

[@nicolafaduku2214]

Dr. Zany-Vampire-Mercenary Strange starting to look hella attractive at 36:30

[@CaptainPecato]

This is one of the coolest videos I've ever seen. Thanks for doing this!

[@B24moose]

I love my new weird space vampire uncle.

[@Vercies]

that was wicked I loved your commentary on where the character was going and what it looked like. I laughed so hard when you put the moustache on. Excellent choice

[@JeffRolandOfficial]

Really fascinating process , playing with these layers is really neat and something else ,when i don't use anysoftware and here i see very well all the fun it brings, thanks Proko

[@TANWRLD2010]

I love Dave's art

[@DistantDeadWorlds]

I liike this way of work. I like that messy is ok.

[@christianklement]

It's so cool to see the process. The narration is super fun aswell

[@amanofnoreputation2164]

Oh man! Those professional artists with their crisp clean work -- I'll never be that accurate and tidy. Professional artist: Emits a spaghetti stream of lines that looks like the noodle puke in the gutter outside a Chinese takeaway. As I go along, it seems more and more apparent that it isn't a question of messy or accurate. Both are two different ways of looking at form. If you only have one or the other it's like only having one eye: you lose depth perception. The more I improve, the less I understand *how* I'm improving.

[@rookbooks6648]

Dave is awesome. Great to see a collab with two excellent artists!

[@ruffinhead]

Dave is the best

[@ScottWinterbourne]

Oh awesome. I've been watching Dave on Twitch for a while for both his art and WoW playing :). Great video. I have really been getting interested in concept art and design lately. Thanks for the awesome video Stan. I highly recommend Dave Greco's KZbin and Twitch channels. It's very interesting to watch him work on his concept art live. Dave: "I'm just putting down some loose scribbles to generate ideas." Me: "Dang that is better than most of my drawings already."

[@pdbowman]

good internal/mental process discussion here, thanks

[@khaosng1398]

Ah i love Dave's work man, been using his DG Main brush for ages now its awesome

[@slimwicket3568]

Oh man this is amazing! It turned into a whole new thing!

[@laponiec]

I love it, someday I will teach myself to paint

[@CaBLEindUSTRIAL]

me gusta bastante la forma en que construye el personaje

[@magicology]

Just...wow. Thank you.

[@uncleatelier8495]

He's really good at graphic drawing. Have a happy day~~~♡★☆♡♥♥

[@antonioblanco3086]

Thanks a lot! Dave is awesome!

[@wvjywrio]

really nice to know that it's just natural to deviate from your initial idea ^_^♥

[@sonaffe2248]

Wow such a great video!! one of my favourites so far, his workflow really resonates with me + he is very likeable and it was great listening to him, while he crafted this magnificent piece with such an ease, really nice video. btw. I like how he paces himself, repeating that he don't want to go too crazy, and I was just like: Gp creazy man, go on! hahah

[@kathharper]

Haha ... Dave's character reminds me of a real person I used to know who actually had permanent fang extensions to his eye-teeth and generally a similar look.

[@bushraaa]

Always love your videos 💕💕

[@Ben-en8pu]

Man I love this tutorial. Thanks for posting it.

[@kelestriamoonbowk.mhammers407]

Maybe that's where I keep messing up. I'm a Virgo and very 'orderly' like I feel like I should get it 'right' on the first sketch and I feel like I have to do it in A. B. C order when maybe I should approach it. I haven't been able to do a 'full' piece lately just sketching and I'm getting frustrated. I was a WoW fanartist and now trying to draw FFXIV and it's vibe is COMPLETELY different. Thanks for sharing!

[@mountainmateen0_o]

This video was absolutely awesome! Thanks you guys. 🙏☺️

[@sonjamuller9397]

That was so interesting, thanks so much for showing your process.

[@ExploraByte]

thanks for the awsome video, i realy like your style that focus on being free and trusting your instincts!

[@__-fi6xg]

WOHOO my favorite artist is on Proko, ProkoKangaroo emoji

[@blueriverbane69]

ohayou, proko!

[@sunnybran2005]

It’s amazing! Thanks for sharing

[@ciccobullet6725]

*New video, yes*

[@linalifox]

Thank you so much Dave for sharing you work process with us, this was so insightful and helpful for artists

[@bernardobeghetto5511]

thanks that was really fun to watch!

[@mimi_j]

This is amazing and fun to watch. Really inspired again 🥰

[@khannarmurr]

What an incredibly helpful video, thanks!

[@TheCrazyDcoolest]

This was great and really easy to follow.

[@a.s.l711]

Thanks i finally found a video like this

[@DH.Maker.Artist]

Really cool to see every step of the process!

[@CyberValeth]

This is one of those rare cases for me, that the method of just being organic and seeing where it goes is closer to how I used to draw when I was younger. Though I also was able to re-create something fairly well when I was young by looking at an image. So... I just need to re-capture both sides for when I use images as reference materials

[@LordMo85]

What a helpful video. Amazing.