The secret sauce! - Environment Concept art

[@wingsofwar]

Whoa, opening change... i like it, had to do a double take to make sure I'm watching the right video.

[@Sakaidoesart]

Your concept art videos are the best art content on yt, hope you do much more of them in the future (i know there are much of them on your channel but i watched every single one lol) .

[@toggtlas7099]

I absolutely LOVE these two drawings! The design, the somewhat desaturated colors, the level of detail... Amazing work, Trent!

[@mergedlayers2153]

I clicked the video and started Salsa-ing in my seat like always to your opening tune. I looked like an idiot...

[@tedsmall5360]

You are not alone!

[@shawniewelch366]

Right lol. I had to ask my husband what he was watching. I said wait start it again thats not the song. 😂

[@kayaeki]

@Griffin Korbyn bruh why hack if you can directly ask her, that super creepy of you. Bad bf

[@SpeshoFX]

Trent: "How do they sleep? How do they get DOWN?" Oh we doing this... *(adds some toys into the bedroom design)*

[@amurika6336]

Lollllllll

[@zondwhomlovesjesus8444]

Jesus loves you(offtopic but true always choose Christ) . Be blessed💖

[@Missin_g]

Just binge watching as many concept art videos as possible for my art portfolio uni application

[@Rohan1s495]

🙋🏻‍♂️ any artist that i can follow or paid tutorials ( courses ) to learn environment concept art ( stylized houses , objects ) , like the 1 shown in the video .

[@tedsmall5360]

Loving me up that whimsical fantasy! Honestly, writing down your own questions is key.

[@ShamelessShabby]

I love these videos, honestly if I’m ever drained or stuck on something I instantly come here and you most likely you have a video on it, which is very useful as these wicked videos really boot my excitement tenfold for my own projects! Thank you for making these!

[@LolixBelle]

just started working as a concept building artist, so I came back to this video and might look back into older videos to refresh my memory hehe

[@AboubakerArtist]

Congratulations 🎉❤

[@femkes3928]

Woah I did not expect these drawings to be colored! O.O So prettyyy

[@jonathanpuckett9480]

Starting off my Friday sipping some coffee and watching this magic. Always an inspiration, thank you Trent!

[@thaumana8489]

Your videos are crisp, on point and visually pleasant to look at. Very inspiring, but still so underrated! I'm currently creating some world-building illustrations and environment reels for my manga project, and I'll leave link your videos there as always as soon as I can showcase my results on social media!

[@TrentKaniuga]

Lately my videos haven't been getting as high of views because I'm posting time lapse of my own thing. I'll get back to more tutorial content soon, and then it'll be popular again just in time for winter. That's the consistent trend.

[@thaumana8489]

@@TrentKaniuga Such a pity. I really enjoy the time lapse videos of artists in general. They have such a meditative but inspiring impact. Can't tell anymore how often I watches your process videos until now (especially love the one of canonballers ).

[@TsulaAngenati2292]

You are basically the cool uncle that gives their art nephews and nieces art tips

[@danilabore3629]

This is literally the coolest art video I have ever watched, thank you so much! Also, your art is amazing!!!

[@gbsartworks4963]

Im learning a lot from you ever since i found your channel. Its not on the same style but in terms of inspiration and skill for me you are one of the best.

[@ninjamug7022]

maaaaan this dude. he makes my day.

[@thecanunu2647]

these buildings gave me maximum Grandia vibes. love your work Trent :)

[@JaggedCanvas]

The textures are so good.

[@Weenadawg]

After switching to an art major because I reaaaaalllllyyy wanted to up my skills instead of passively go with the flow of a psych major, watching those videos shitting on art degrees got me anxious that maybe the road for an artist was more narrow than I naively thought but your videos are so inspiring and helpful!!! I wanted to take classes so when I bring my ideas into reality, it can be aesthetically pleasing, makes sense, and accurate to my imagination, so hearing your advice gets me so pumped to cram knowledge into my brain while feeling relieved that it can still pay off (career wise? financially? idk, I just feel relieved!)

[@sionilopez]

Really enjoy your videos. I love how you express and give information. Your vocie is a plus+++

[@PapaEnjoi]

Awesome reminder of questions to ask during creation. I was finishing up an asset pack for a game I'm working on while watching this video, now I need to rethink some of these designs 😂. Thank you for the great content!

[@MRAKASAMA016]

Amazing art and words

[@jullcepts8780]

Loving the intro song man!

[@enigmanesral]

Fantastic video once again Trent! Just killing it.

[@Syr3]

Trent, your enthusiasm is contagious :D . I'm at a time where my art goals are getting dimmed by the other responsibilities, but your enthusiasm is helping me not giving up on them. Thank you, man o/

[@weirdlee4514]

I am a huge fan and I am following your tutorials for a long time thank you for such amazing work

[@LimitedSpectrum]

Man, your work is so cool! Such an interesting style, and this video with your explanation behind your concept art is really nice to have while watching you paint. And what you said about Star Wars is spot-on. I've been saying the same thing since The Phantom Menace came out; the stories and lore and music all come together beautifully, but it's that used, lived-in world that makes it perfect. Star Trek is really neat, I love Battlestar Galactica (both original and remake), I recently finished watching The Expanse, which was awesome, but a lot of it is all so polished and high-tech... but Star Wars, that universe is worn and re-purposed. It has history. And even though it was a long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away, it has so much familiarity.

[@ChristopherAOBoyle]

Great video and advice to be critical and really create some depth - can't wait to utilize all of this!

[@mcbaltz]

Thank you, Trent

[@Windybeardgames]

Awesome video. Thank you

[@HazedShaman]

I can't help but think every time I watch one of your videos "he would make such a awesome Dungeon Master for a DnD campaign." The sheer detail and thought you put into story telling just for a piece, i feel like would translate so well over to DnD. I know you probably would never have time for it, but damn that would be cool. Trent hosts a Twilight Monk DnD campaign, so neat.

[@TrentKaniuga]

But I'm a video game developer. That's essentially what I do!

[@HazedShaman]

@@TrentKaniuga true, but with DnD it’s much more personalized! Trent if you’ve never tried DnD once in your life I implore you, just once try it!

[@MrWaffle47]

No nasty comments, just saying thanks for sharing some of your knowledge from the vast pools you have at the ready. Keep putting out great videos like these that gives people like me (no art abilities) hope!

[@XtianApi]

Much love brother. You are such an inspiration.

[@btvaldivieso]

MAN… SOLID video and questions to ask and think about, for certain! It makes total, complete sense. 1000%! I don’t know anything about illustration / concept art - but, I am going to learn it all. Thank you greatly for sharing your insights, brother - for real, greatly valued! 🇺🇸

[@ahoysheena5988]

This is very great! I'm now thinking more in my creating process, thanks a lot!!

[@ZomGKiwi]

Trent I'm deffently buying your courses. For a long time I been struggling learning on my own after college. So some online courses seems to be the best way to improve with out breaking the bank on going to a university.

[@mkingamess7029]

Darn you Trent, I am supposed to rest my wrist but you're inspiring me :)

[@gainchimesee9258]

I always learn a lot from your videos thanks

[@preciousanngarcia1734]

Thanks! Future Game developer here. 💗

[@tacticslc4805]

Every 6 months he shares his secret sauce, because sauce can have many taste, you can keep adding new flavors

[@Soluwyn]

Great work sir, I learned alot from them Twilight taters!!

[@amberwhite3538]

This was video was helpful. Im trying to learn how to get better at this kind of art. Thank you for posting

[@CastleKingside]

Yo, Trent. You're a real one!!!

[@esserge7473]

Hey Trent Love all the videos and the kind of like cooooool yet wise energy you seem to emanate keep doing what you do ! ^^

[@postsart]

What’s the song you started with? I love the into song! Very nice painting btw- from the future!

[@Danyakett]

also love new intro/background music, remind me something from Chrono Cross vibe

[@trlolingbear47]

I like the new tune

[@EricOlorunfemi]

Whoa... The first 3 minutes already showed me one of my major issues with environment design.

[@pepsikthelegend8367]

Ah yes, the humble Trent is back

[@sudiptaroy6103]

I am not an artist but you are inspiring me to be one but your insights are very detailed and understandable. I am taking out time to draw again and implement your advice. Keep up your good work.

[@KeineCarvalho]

It's amazing to see how you think of the details and make yourself part of the world.. Also such entertaining videos 😃✨

[@MarcSantana]

Exactly what I was searching for :D

[@markypin]

Is this for an artbook?? I love this work!!

[@TrentKaniuga]

Yes. This is for the WOrld of Twilight Monk Volume 2. Volume 1 is currently available on www.aquatic-moon.com

[@FireallyXTheories]

I was actually wondering about structure concept art. I've been trying to reverse engineer Pokemon Mystery Dungeon buildings to make some redesigns, and they're so magical. How do they do it? For that matter, how do you make a building? Lasso silhouette, line, render, remove lines, render more?

[@RFigtree]

Who would dare write a mean comment on this! This is so sweet, instructional, and so wholesome.

[@valkorey]

I think we all find your video very inspiring ❤️

[@hugo-samson]

That is incredibly useful thanks a lot ! The only thing I dont understand is your art style and your painting process that'd be a cool video !

[@GentlyGiantGames]

Nice song change up!

[@chidoliro9118]

you are amazing!!! thanks a lot for sharing so much knowledge

[@Metacious]

You've worked on GBA games? That's amazing!, can you show some pixel art content in the future? I'd love to watch

[@AndrewMaksym]

Maybe even Collab with MortMort, that'd be cool

[@anshuman_kashyap]

Excellent as always. Thanks! I have one request but it may touch bits and pieces of this and other videos. I have been trying to write a story to create concept art around it and build my portfolio. But while answering questions that came into my head, I have gone so deep into the story that it started to feel overwhelming as the number of things kept on increasing. How do I work around that so that there’s a basic story skeleton, which also feels well established and also enough to create art around for portfolio? Maybe then in future I can come back and dive deep. Hope this makes sense.

[@pieflavor5894]

I liked those BOTW shrines...

[@adamrusso3871]

How do you fit individual buildings with their individual style into a cityscape while still preserving that style? Or does the overall feel of the city supplant or abut the neighborhood feel?

[@eddyalvaross2195]

Photoshop seems so fast and smooth on your PC. What GPU does your come with ?

[@TrentKaniuga]

I use a 2019 MacBook Pro.

[@eddyalvaross2195]

@@TrentKaniuga Damn, its GPU is powerful. It's either a Radeon Pro 560X or Radeon Vega 16... One has GDDR5 graphic RAM, the other has HMB2 graphic RAM. Now it seems HMB2 consume less power, costs more to build, but offer same performance than GDDR5.

[@Niko_3D]

Trent you should do some art for new company of Mr. Morhaime! They just started new game dev company, kinda big ass news!

[@gokumasan307]

Nice

[@Artofizanagi]

Drawing landscapes is so hard.

[@maxpitchkites]

Also, isometric perspective is useful for environments.

[@ΠανοςΤσωνος]

Just subbed to your channel your advice is really helpfull

[@Niko_3D]

Do you have tutorial that could help me out with hand painted stylized 3D models? I feel as if I'm stuck and not improving as much as I would like too.

[@yimingyan9092]

Trent I really like your video. I'm a student studying concept design right now. Could you talk about your understanding of the five principal for illustration pls. dominant, sub-dominant, rhythm...

[@TrentKaniuga]

I don't believe in that stuff. But maybe.

[@christuusgnosis]

I would really like to see a video of time how much time do you actually spend before, during, after cleanup how much time for a particular type of piece an enviro, a character, do you spend 1 hour planning, or 2 days less or more once you start how long do you spend blocking out the base in min/hrs? how long do you "kindof" spend on detailing? How long would you take to make a flat char painting? What is the sortof normal amount of time you would spend on a 3d char to detail it? I've seen lovely things that buddy took 3 weeks on is that normal? (it's not to me, but...) to work 2-3 weeks on a single character model in 3d? a concept sketch, do you whip that out in 2-3 hours or less or do you spend more than a few hours on certain things? Think of when you were 1/4 as experienced as you are how long do you spend on most projects? Not necessarily for a deadline, but that info is cool but for real how long do you focus one one thing? and do you work on several things over time? or do you stay focused on one thing? I like your vids a lot even though I don't do your thing.

[@TrentKaniuga]

As much as the clients schedule allows. Sometimes a day, sometimes a week with revisions

[@christuusgnosis]

@@TrentKaniuga Thank you. Very much. The vids really have helped me. I just realized I don't suck as badly as I thought. I just need to spend more time on one thing instead of moving on. I used to airbrush and I would work on 6 things at once over a few days(long ago). I really just need to focus on one thing at a time for longer. It's hard. I've never stayed on one single piece for more than an hour at a time. Things are already looking much better for me already, I feel a lot better about what I'm doing. I'm really just a hobbyist but I have my own vid/cinematic projects and I need to stay on each one much longer. Thx. It was when you mentioned the dragon took you about 3 hours.

[@jezuzu2078]

I miss the salsa music. Messing with my jam! x.x

[@Danyakett]

Thanks for your advice Trent! i've got a question, as environmental concept artist how much information 3D modelers needs about buildings in scene? Should I approach it same way as a character turnaround and draw it in multiple angles? It still not so clear for me.

[@TrentKaniuga]

Its different for each company. But I recommend doing 3/4 views, and rendering it in the art style of the game. Also do research on what the game studio concept art looks like. Everywhere is different.

[@SimoCow]

Does anyone know which brush is he using in this painting ? Doesn't look like a standard round/square brush to me, it kinda feels like waterbrushes... anyone please?

[@AlexCasadiego]

"Layer 128" Oh, boy...

[@YoukMetal]

Please can you do a tutorial step by step of how to design and build from scratch this building's? I would like to see your process from the beginning please, not when it is already designed. I hope this make sense, thanks!

[@TrentKaniuga]

I have that in my Easy Art Lessons series on Gumroad. There you can draw along with me to design a very similar building. www.gumroad.com/trentk

[@randomutubr222]

Could you point us to that intro music? Sounds dope

[@someonehangingout2276]

Ikr

[@maksimshakruin5661]

Cool drawings! But I think record in mono will be better (sorry for eng:)

[@lolstuffenjoy9880]

I just hear transformation sequence

[@Joyboy9776]

How do you come up with those concept or design

[@ZEUSFPV]

Which environmental gumroad would u recommend to start off with it ? I see u have 2

[@TrentKaniuga]

Facility.

[@timothysatyr6674]

That's crazy, I can't imagine Trent getting nasty comments on here. People can be buttheads sometimes

[@mikenelson1624]

👍

[@JoshuaJayChristie]

Yo trent, sometimes when im drawing flora and forestery elements they can tend to look messy, any chance you could help a brother out with some advise on drawing and painting nature elements?

[@mikoajcabanek5761]

Can u explain in some video deference between working as concept design in animation and game industry?

[@TrentKaniuga]

I don't know. I've never worked in animation.

[@josepablosanchez5278]

Hello Trent great video! One question that I must know so much about architecture if I want to be an environment concept artist ?. I mean I understand that I need to know about perspective and styles, but I have to study a full career in architecture?

[@TrentKaniuga]

Just reference what you need for the task. You don’t have to get a degree in architecture to learn how to design the look of a building

[@josepablosanchez5278]

@@TrentKaniuga thanks :)

[@αωεςσε-ω7ζ]

what is this royalty free transformation time lapse music?

[@ryanseazon]

What brush are you using in this video? Is it in your brush pack?

[@TrentKaniuga]

yep! www.gumroad.com/trentk

[@freakenanimations6830]

Next Intro: Casual Bongos please! (It's a Five nights at Freddy's reference)

[@DigitalinDaniel]

PO-TAY-TOES!

[@natrullan1]

hey Trent check out the new update on Procreate 5x.. tell us what you think.. they have gradients now :)

[@JonathanBlido]

What is your coloring process?

[@octaviososa5108]

Thank you for your tutorial! I have been a professional artist for almost a year now and I starting to get request from people to do art for them. They won't offer payment but they offer a lot of exposure. What are your thoughts on that? Thank you.

[@TrentKaniuga]

run away.

[@amurika6336]

I am sure this video will help someone but it's common sense and easy to find references. Problem with me is after I put all of them together. Shadow... :(

[@suzerainty4192]

this is such a helpful video but I won't stand for this BoTW shrine slander lol. My desktop background is literally a screenshot from the game of one of the shrines 😩

[@TrentKaniuga]

They're bad dude. Wait till you see what the community came up with. Much better!

[@suzerainty4192]

@@TrentKaniuga ;_; my shrines...

[@PinkWytchBytch]

But why "sauce"...?

[@hikazeyattis3828]

You make it too easy, probably already said this, give me a reason to be lazy! lol