Chapter 9: Building Your Own Concept Art

When you hear the term concept art, the first thing you will think of is probably not Clip Studio Paint (CSP), but Photoshop. That's for one simple reason: concept art is usually associated with the concept of photobashing, a practice in which you combine (bash) photos together. Here, you can see an example of an image in which I used that technique because I needed to create a concept to show to one of my teachers for an exam in 10 minutes flat:

Figure 9.1 – Photobashing example

So, obviously, you would think that Photoshop is the ruler of concept art, and Affinity Photo is the second in command. You're theoretically right—but technically wrong. The technique of photobashing is pretty useful for creating fast ideas that don't look like some scrambled lines, but being honest here, it's just one facet of the different approaches that you can have for doing concept art. If you're working for Blizzard...