{"id":812685,"date":"2024-11-01T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-11-01T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/community.wacom.com\/en-us\/?p=812685"},"modified":"2025-03-06T09:32:29","modified_gmt":"2025-03-06T17:32:29","slug":"etherington-bros-comics-crash-course-5-concept-art","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/community.wacom.com\/en-us\/etherington-bros-comics-crash-course-5-concept-art\/","title":{"rendered":"Etherington Bros\u2019 Comics Crash Course #5: Concept art"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em><strong>The Etherington Bros<\/strong> are well-known as one of the greatest teams of drawing teachers around \u2014 their <a href=\"https:\/\/theetheringtonbrothers.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">How to Think When You Draw<\/a> series of books, and their blog, have helped millions of artists learn how to draw essentially everything.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>In addition to the free drawing tutorials on their blog, they\u2019ve released a free ebook just for young, beginning artists \u2014 <strong>How to Think When You Draw Junior<\/strong>. You can <a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/1S7QPBa_xySuudj3capI4yzG2KajfuD48\/view\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">download the entire ebook here for free<\/a>, or read on to get a sample of one of the tutorials.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>This mini-lesson is Part Five in a Five-Part series! Here are all five parts<\/strong>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/community.wacom.com\/en-us\/etherington-bros-comics-crash-course-1-how-to-draw-heads\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">1: How to draw heads<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/community.wacom.com\/en-us\/etherington-bros-comics-crash-course-2-hair-and-head-shapes\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">2: Hair and head shapes<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/community.wacom.com\/en-us\/etherington-bros-comics-crash-course-3-character-design-and-costumes\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">3: Character design and costumes<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/community.wacom.com\/en-us\/how-to-tell-story-through-character-design\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">4: Storytelling through character design<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/community.wacom.com\/en-us\/etherington-bros-comics-crash-course-5-concept-art\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">5: Concept art<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:26px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:26px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Designing the rest of your comic's world<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Your best art comes from experimenting and playing with a variety of ideas, so it's worth taking some time to develop the extra characters, items, and environments within your comic story, before you draw them on the final page.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The designs you create as you work out how you want these elements to look are called <strong>concept art<\/strong>, which really just means <strong>ideas art<\/strong> -- drawing different ideas for how something could look until you find the one you like the best.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"779\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/community.wacom.com\/en-us\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/40\/2023\/08\/etherington-concept-art-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-812686\" title=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/community.wacom.com\/en-us\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/40\/2023\/08\/etherington-concept-art-1.jpg 779w, https:\/\/community.wacom.com\/en-us\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/40\/2023\/08\/etherington-concept-art-1-480x420.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) 779px, 100vw\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">You may need concept art for characters, objects, vehicles, places, food, animals, or even hairstyles. Even tiny changes can make a big differences -- changing the lines on a car, for example, can make it <em>feel <\/em>faster, slower, newer, older, etc.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"798\" height=\"661\" src=\"https:\/\/community.wacom.com\/en-us\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/40\/2023\/09\/etherington-concept-art-2.jpg\" alt=\"Etherington Bros 5 concept art 2\" class=\"wp-image-812889\" title=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/community.wacom.com\/en-us\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/40\/2023\/09\/etherington-concept-art-2.jpg 798w, https:\/\/community.wacom.com\/en-us\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/40\/2023\/09\/etherington-concept-art-2-480x398.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) 798px, 100vw\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Different shapes convey different messages, considering what best fits whatever you're designing! Sharp angles convey a strong and intimidating feeling. Long flowing lines convey sleekness and speed. And rounder, bouncier lines convey playfulness and friendliness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">You don't have to draw completely different designs for each idea -- sometimes changing just one thing will create a totally new character!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"798\" height=\"741\" src=\"https:\/\/community.wacom.com\/en-us\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/40\/2023\/08\/etherington-concept-art-3-1.jpg\" alt=\"Etherington Bros 5 concept art 3\" class=\"wp-image-812890\" title=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/community.wacom.com\/en-us\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/40\/2023\/08\/etherington-concept-art-3-1.jpg 798w, https:\/\/community.wacom.com\/en-us\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/40\/2023\/08\/etherington-concept-art-3-1-480x446.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) 798px, 100vw\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Compare the original character to the other versions, when the eyes, hair style, hair color, lips, brows, jawline, or nose have changed or been mixed and matched. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Remember, the entire PDF of&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/1S7QPBa_xySuudj3capI4yzG2KajfuD48\/view\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">How To Think When You Draw Junior&nbsp;is available here<\/a>. You can also stay tuned to this blog, as we\u2019ll be posting many more of these quick comics tutorials!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Want to learn to draw comics? The Etherington Bros have created hundreds of free tutorials and resources. Here&#8217;s a preview &#8212; how to tell a story through character design.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":812696,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2325,2317,2338,2553],"tags":[2519],"class_list":["post-812685","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-back-to-school","category-digital-drawing-painting","category-how-to","category-learn-manga-anime","tag-etherington-bros"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/community.wacom.com\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/812685","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/community.wacom.com\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/community.wacom.com\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community.wacom.com\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community.wacom.com\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=812685"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/community.wacom.com\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/812685\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community.wacom.com\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/812696"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/community.wacom.com\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=812685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community.wacom.com\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=812685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community.wacom.com\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=812685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}