How I paint League of Legends Splash Art - Caitlyn Resistance Splash Art Process

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I've been asked about this video a lot and I finally quit being lazy and came out with it! This is my process video for how I generally worked on splash art images for games like League of Legends and Smite. I would've shown the whole 20+ hour real time process video but honestly I don't know what I would've talked about to fill that time up and it would've had to be published as several videos.
For a summarization of my overall splash art process, I would generally start with research and reference gathering based on the brief I would be sent. Then, I would move into the thumbnail/ideation stage where I start drawing a lot of small, quick sketches and explore different camera angles and story beats to help express the character and the story the client wants to showcase. Next, I would refine a small number of those thumbnails that I liked the look of and thought were the most successful. After that, I'd move onto either exploring color and lighting OR I start to lay out the final drawing, I've handled these steps interchangeably in the past, but nowadays I tend to lean towards handling the color and lighting sooner rather than later. And finally, I begin the rendering process. this is a long part of the process, but really I don't have any great steps for it, I just paint away until it's done.
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@LocPham-kw5ut 5 месяцев назад

First time ever an high end splash-art illustrator take time to break down and narrate the process on youtube. You're a savior sir.

@bakedbeings 5 месяцев назад

Check out David Finch too.

@Kokose 4 месяца назад

Definitely not the first one however often times NDA is what prevents artists from talking about the illustrations they did for companies. I feel like the contracts are getting a bit more flexible or at least the artists relations with these companies gets a bit more flexible so we may be able to see more process wise.

@marielcarey4288 4 месяца назад

Not just NDA but the possibility of selling it as a course@@Kokose

@abigaileldritch 3 месяца назад

Atey Ghalian did some a long time ago

@TwoToo_ 5 месяцев назад

Man low key pulled up the nudes he used as reference and uploaded them on RU-vid. Thanks brother, i appreciate u for taking a monetisation cut for the homies 🙏

@mimi-rosehowards9862 4 месяца назад

Omg not the virgin incel comment 😂 Makes sense since his style is basically cheap boring porn made for media illiterate Marvel fanbois

@SalvagedCreativity 3 месяца назад

That’s what I thought, but if it’s under education then it should be fine.

@miguerys9503 3 месяца назад

It is so refreshing to hear these images may take a whole month or 50h of work, there's too many tutorials misleading people into drawing and painting quickly, ultimately leading to unrealistic expectations and frustration, when in truth what will truly benefit us is to spend the right amount of time on each stage and make sure everything is as good as it can be, specially if you're learning or doing a portfolio piece that doesn't have a deadline.

@mirassama4604 4 месяца назад

whenever I see an amazing artist and they suddenly disappeared, they will come back telling us that they got into blizzard, it's crazy how blizzard collect all these insane artist like pokemon XDD!! thanks for the uploading! your art is so inspiring

@erolc82 5 месяцев назад

The whole process shows how important and essential the drawing part is to the overall image. Many artists unfortunately overlook that aspect and focus on the rendering phase instead. The amount of trial and error invested in the structural foundation of the splash is worth watching and learning from! And only shows what a prominent artist Forrest is! Thank you for sharing!

@Mpercivale 5 месяцев назад

Dude , you've literally given me all the advice I would have liked to hear years ago. I was making basic mistakes out of pure ignorance that were systematically leading me to burnout because I didn't understand where I was going wrong. This is gold. I'll try to apply them and see the results. Thank you so much, seriously.

@beaver_eater2447 5 месяцев назад

I had watched COUNTLESS of Leauge splash art timeplase videos on both RU-vid and Chinese sites, tried to figure out by myself the process and techniques. You had no ideas how much this breakdown video help me, thank you so so much, really hope you can do another one in the near future

@mikcaves3050 5 месяцев назад

Just knowing the amount of time that’s available when working on this type of artwork has lifted a huge weight from my back haha

@namba3886 5 месяцев назад

Wow holy moly, my jaw honestly hit the floor as you were pumping out those short studies, like you get them done with such accuracy and speed

@b1uezer 5 месяцев назад

Currently improving my digital art, really enjoyed hearing about a standard time frame given for in-the-field works like this. I'm sure it feels different while doing it too, but I always worry about not being fast enough, like a fear of same day turnarounds of finished pieces 😅. Like, I barely finish my own stuff in a week haha.

@Vrailly 5 месяцев назад

Your sketching of figure studies was brilliant, I'd love to see a realtime replay of that!! Subscribed. I'll check out your courses too.

@RekoTea 5 месяцев назад

Something about being able to authentically show everything involved with an artists process has always been my favorite. Every reference youve shown along with the breakdown of what you liked was so great to see. Sometimes i watch speedpaints and the concepts seem segmented and just fragments of what the artist is thinking, and I think its super cool to get a layer and display of your process because it really shows all the efforts within it.

@Dethrey_ 3 месяца назад

thank you for sharing your process on the splash art and your journey as a digital artist. greatly appreciate this as an aspiring artist myself. all of these are motivations to continue to make art and practice. #art #leagueoflegends

@dirke4810 5 месяцев назад

It always makes me so happy seeing amazing artists breakdown and share their process with others, great stuff, thanks.

@makki_art8525 5 месяцев назад

Most educational video I have seen in a while! Would love to see more of this!!

@savannag.5237 5 месяцев назад

Awesome video!! I can feel myself soaking in all of the artistic process haha it was so nice to hear all of the thoughts that went into creating this splash

@h3mera 5 месяцев назад

i have so much respect for artists who narrate their professional work, you have no idea how much you are helping aspiring artists! thank you so much for this video :D

@gustav0santos 5 месяцев назад

I've been waiting for something like this from you for SO LONG, Forrest. I mean... my god. Thank you for taking the time to produce it. I haven't even seen the video yet and I already know how good it is.

@clarbads06 5 месяцев назад

Super valuable information! Thank you so much for taking the time to break down the process!

@sage4726 5 месяцев назад

so excited to see a new video from you!! already know its gonna be awesome :))

@TamilVolk 5 месяцев назад

Another masterpiece from a legend!

@plakjeham118 5 месяцев назад

I'm so glad ur back on making videos. You're my fave artist of all time

@sydretor-ec3oe 4 месяца назад

you guys are geniuses! beautiful artwork, i was looking for such a video after that skin released

@Ivanbadenh 5 месяцев назад

Dude I am so happy for you, been following since 2017. So great that you're living the dream. Keep it up!

@jadoncheah8339 5 месяцев назад

Thanks so much! Im trying to become a splash artist, and this is the only process breakdown video that ive stumbled upon which goes into so much detail. A huge help!

@hayatoart 4 месяца назад

This was very in depth and informative, thank you so much!

@cymbra 5 месяцев назад

you're a legend for this. thank you!

@selina8348 5 месяцев назад

I appreciate this SO much, thank you for posting this!! It's so hard to find splash artists break down their process.

@ninja.android 5 месяцев назад

Enjoyed this so much :) Also, somehow I'm not surprised your original ideas on the poses were so much better than what the client wanted!!

@UrusaiJoe Месяц назад

One of the best videos out there. Thank you for sharing this

@Rivalrvn 5 месяцев назад

This is fantastic content, and you're supremely talented. Keep it up! :)

@Rp-wt7uz 5 месяцев назад

This is amazing, thank you so much for sharing!

@ShareShura 5 месяцев назад

Thanks a lot for the voice-over explaining your process!

@ArtByDrowzyy 4 месяца назад

Omg you are an absolute legend! You would be an amazing art teacher.

@nyme2349 3 месяца назад

thank u for all the information you shared! it's really helpful for people who wants to get better at drawing

@Kartzi5294 5 месяцев назад

ty man this was so amazing to watch

@terminl1327 4 месяца назад

As soon as you started on the forms in the beginning I was blown away. There's an efficiency to everything you did that really proves you're a pro.

@SoaringTurtles 5 месяцев назад

Randomly reccomended to me by RU-vid, but was really intresting. So many art videos on RU-vid arent from professional working artist these days, so its nice to see this kind of content. Hopefully you can do more videos like this in the future

@Patxi__ 5 месяцев назад

Great job! Thanks for sharing, so instructive.

@FFFlay 5 месяцев назад

Hell yeah he's back!

@lpsbellomi 2 месяца назад

Thank you so much! It’s really helpful, I was really struggling the first time 😁 thanks for sharing your progress ❤

@chillbro2275 13 дней назад

RU-vid algo helped me out. I watched this video months ago. Then yesterday I watched a video by an artist was giving a lot of respect League's splash artist -- and it reminded me of you and this video. But i had no idea how to search for it. YT algo suggested it just now. Hooray! So now I'm finally starting to actually learn digital painting (software/theory etc) and wanted to watch you and other pros work again. I don't intend to be a pro, i just would love to be able to render like you do here.

@LucasPeinador 3 месяца назад

Niceeeee. Gonna save this one to study later. Thanks for sharing 🔥

@nivlaccc2175 5 месяцев назад

THIS WAS SO USEFUL AND INFORMATIVE, THANK YOU SOOOOO MUCH! PLEASE DO MORE OF THESE TALKING OVER ILLUSTRATION VIDEOS!

@grimsonforce7504 4 месяца назад

The perspective step is very underrated now because most people rely upon Blender and other 3D softwares. Same with lighting it's a shame. Its nice to see another artist acknowledge it.

@NoHealNeeded 5 месяцев назад

thank you for the upload learned a lot from it

@tomothmer3951 5 месяцев назад

This is so good, thanks alot!

@Kiroguramuu 5 месяцев назад

@ForrestImel This was a really good video. I really appreciated your breakdown and insights with the process for this composition and some of the behind the scenes pipeline details. I hope you'll find the time to make more of these. Thanks for sharing!

@jinxjinx9533 5 месяцев назад

thank you for sharing your process with comentary

@white_okami3154 4 месяца назад

awesome video , thanks for showing your process!

@charliehomenaje8513 5 месяцев назад

man you struggle alot with the composition and the character perspective i can relate to that ,it is so awesome how the render pass can solve lots of stuff through out the process.

@pyrosdestiny 3 месяца назад

Incredible video 👏🏾

@TobiNano 5 месяцев назад

Thanks for this!

@user-nl3cy2sl6m 5 месяцев назад

Great Video! Thank you

@juanchinpanchin 5 месяцев назад

Thanks for sharing!

@benaubone 5 месяцев назад

Awesome!

@danielmartart Месяц назад

pretty cool and usefull video, I've been trying to teach myself to paint splash arts transitioning from drawing to colors is definitively the hardest for me.

@TomBigosinskiArt 5 месяцев назад

Glad to see your beautiful face

@ForrestImel 5 месяцев назад

Miss you

@lucabarnardo6613 Месяц назад

I love the fact that you mentioned that for the 95% of the splash art you only used Hard Round Opacity and Soft Round brushes. Many folks (including myself) tend to completely overthink the brush preferences for artworks of such high fidelity.

@cynthiapucheanu34 3 месяца назад

Thank you!

@penono 5 месяцев назад

this is why im sub to this channel

@brockybear2 5 месяцев назад

Amazing video!

@joshphp 5 месяцев назад

Not all heroes wear capes 🙌♥️

@Sullivanwushere 5 месяцев назад

Sick Shaman King poster

@maryneko-chan3035 4 месяца назад

I really liked this video. It was very instructive. ^u^

@ehyzen 5 месяцев назад

thank you sooo much

@o3jkr9ij3r9he0w 5 месяцев назад

james somerton, you back

@dynocraftLOL 5 месяцев назад

great video man

@nezox_l_b_8931 5 месяцев назад

Wow so good anatomy)

@shukun-luxxy 4 месяца назад

I might be seeing this a little late, but wow super interesting to know that you're doing almost all of your work with 2 basic brushes. I have been trying to get more into digital character designs lately myself, however I feel like I'm struggling to apply my physical drawing/painting skills to my tablet/photoshop.

@fransende 5 месяцев назад

Awesome breakdown. Would love to see something similar for a Card game illustration such as MTG.

@ForrestImel 5 месяцев назад

That is in the works! Unfortunately though my cards don't get released for upwards of 1-2 years so it may be awhile haha

@PierceTH 5 месяцев назад

Thank you so much

@feardieshogun8153 5 месяцев назад

thank you

@TheXxsuperxxchickxx 4 месяца назад

me a novice artist, learning how to draw people , i can relate how getting the form wrong and developing it changes what i am originally going for and also trying to figure out the surroundings so it fits in the world correctly

@hugoruix_yt995 4 месяца назад

I'd love to know 13:35 how that works. The thoughts on the shapes and composition to work well with the pose. Probably the hardest and more interesting, yet unexplored, part of art tutorials/videos. All these small competition things are so cool. Would love to know more about the though process you go through.

@ForrestImel 4 месяца назад

That's a great topic, probably one worth making a whole video on honestly :)

@hugoruix_yt995 4 месяца назад

I've looked for something like that for a long time. It would be awesome tbh. ty for the reply btw! @@ForrestImel

@QueenMasumi 5 месяцев назад

Thank you for sharing how a league splash art is done, seen many process videos from others, but all seem to hoard on what goes on in general other than just a measly speedpaint. Also, not to roast the client, but as a fellow U.S. American, that's not how a sniper rifle should be held or handled (reloaded). 💀

@morangedesign 5 месяцев назад

This guy makes cars look both ways when he crosses the street

@vin4216 5 месяцев назад

Amazing work. I wonder if you flattened the background with the fog in it after color stage before you started rendering it .

@sunkyasisa1834 5 месяцев назад

very great video!! can you do another explaining the grayscale to color process?

@ForrestImel 5 месяцев назад

I'll consider it, it's not a major part of my process though, so I don't think I'm the best at showing that kind of technique.

@morfeosj2583 4 месяца назад

Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge! I'd love to know what canvas dimensions and resolution you find work best for your illustrations.

@ForrestImel 4 месяца назад

For league splash stuff I believe it's usually just a 16:9 aspect ratio. I try not to go any larger than 10k pixels on any one side because it makes my photoshop start to go pretty slow. Usually the largest side I work on maybe will go up to 8k pixels.

@Lechuzico 5 месяцев назад

Hey! I would like to know how do you do the perspective grid in photoshop! 🤩

@ForrestImel 5 месяцев назад

Hey there! There are a couple tricks to making one within photoshop but the one I am using is actually a separate jpeg file of a basic 2 point perspective grid with vertical lines in case I want to adjust it to be a 3 point grid. I just drag it in my files and set it to multiply and there ya go haha

@Lechuzico 5 месяцев назад

@@ForrestImel Thank you so much! I thought you were using some sort of secret tool inside photoshop haha 🥷

@Astryca 5 месяцев назад

Thanks for sharing! this is super helpfull!! Maybe you said it in the video, but i was wondering if you ever sent progress updates to the client once the rendering process was in action? Or if you just finish it after the client is happy with a thumbnail, story, pose ect?

@ForrestImel 5 месяцев назад

Yeah, most clients I will send at least the thumbnails, then a color rough, then maybe a halfway point of rendering, and then finally the finished render. League work was a little different since they had weekly meetings so they wanted an update once or twice a week, regardless of what step I was on. But other clients like Magic I'll pretty much just send the thumbnail and then send them the final when it's done.

@gabreulegal4700 5 месяцев назад

i love you

@nicholaslatham9279 4 месяца назад

Very insightful

@azmibrahim1 5 месяцев назад

Thank you for the video! What's the recommended canvas size in pixels for a splash art?

@ForrestImel 5 месяцев назад

I don't quite remember what the aspect ratio is that they prefer, but my last splash was set at 7384x4133 for what it's worth :)

@azmibrahim1 5 месяцев назад

@@ForrestImel thank you for the reply, I'll stick to around that size of canvas from now :D

@omedha.4176 5 месяцев назад

Thank you for the Content Forrest ❤May i ask if you work on other projects in a month or do you solely focus on the splash art for the time being?

@ForrestImel 5 месяцев назад

Yeah since splash art tended to be on a cycle of 1 every 6-8 weeks I would have to also have other work on my plate so I wasn't getting paid only once every three months haha. I would usually have 1-2 Magic the Gathering or Hearthstone cards, 1 Smite splash illustration, and 1 League illustration that I'd be working on simultaneously. At least that's what the last year was like before starting at Blizzard.

@omedha.4176 5 месяцев назад

@@ForrestImel Oh my bad I didn't consider that there are cycles with offtime in between 😆. It's amazing to hear, that's a lot of different kind of work you'd do, I suppose it kept the mind fresh. Can I ask, is the communication with the art director only done via mail or would you guys have video meetings? Sorry to bombard you with questions, I'm just trying to understand the field a bit since it's so blurry for me. Again I appreciate you for taking your time to share your insight with us, it's not always seen :)

@ForrestImel 5 месяцев назад

@@omedha.4176 Oh no problem, happy to help! All discussions and feedback would just be handled over email, I personally always hate it when a client wants to talk to me over zoom or discord or something to go over things. At least when I was freelancing, most of the time it was never necessary.

@omedha.4176 5 месяцев назад

@@ForrestImel Interesting thank you for clarifying!

@arrestedsolidyhe77sp 5 месяцев назад

can you do a video on using the laso tool? Feel like that's a technique that's used a lot but not really explored anywhere online

@ForrestImel 5 месяцев назад

That's a great idea, yeah I could do a video going over that!

@vin4216 5 месяцев назад

We would love to see the whole 20+ hour process of this beautiful work. Maybe divided into 10 videos with 2 hour length.

@SlothzArt 5 месяцев назад

What canvas size do you recommend? I want to try out splash art :)

@ForrestImel 4 месяца назад

I'm not sure of the exact pixels, but I think it's about a 16:9 aspect ratio

@zanuzee12 5 месяцев назад

Did you are not teaching at CGMA anymore? i really want to learn from you. will you going to open course again in future?

@ForrestImel 5 месяцев назад

Unfortunately I'm too busy to actively be doing a mentorship at the moment, but I am going to work on a self-guided mentorship for anyone interested that follows a similar structure to what I taught at CGMA. Because it is self-guided though it won't have that direct feedback, but it will be significantly cheaper than a direct mentorship.

@MrSongib 3 месяца назад

It's kinda strange when watching people explore the gesture and ended up with the stiffest pose for their painting. xd I did that too sometimes and wondered "It's feels stiff, hmm" xd

@RekoTea 5 месяцев назад

Also for your channel Distraction makers is it on Spotify or just youtube for the time being

@ForrestImel 5 месяцев назад

Right now it's just on RU-vid, I think "podcast" is a little misleading, we are aiming for shorter game design discussions at the moment so youtube makes the most sense for now.

@RekoTea 5 месяцев назад

@@ForrestImel oooh oki oki, it sounds like an awesome podcast idea so cant wait to see where it goes!

@Gagurum 5 месяцев назад

this is what the "democratization" of art looks like

@floralwhite1005 5 месяцев назад

sorry if its uhm private question but i am really curious how much do you get paid per splashart? or maybe you get paid per hour ??

@ForrestImel 5 месяцев назад

Oh no it's not a problem, I'm happy to give numbers! I was paid $5000-$6250 depending on the type of splash it is, however I worked through an outsourcing studio so they also take a cut, their cut is usually anywhere from 30-50% so the total payout for a splash like that through a studio is closer to $8k-10k.

@rushyit 5 месяцев назад

I'm really curious about your brush settings, it's really tough creating that lines with a pen tablet because I didn't see you using in display tablet. Please if you had a time to response my curiosity it would be helpfull to anyone who wacth this video. thank you.

@ForrestImel 5 месяцев назад

So, I'm using a wacom intuos pro and I only use like half the space on it for drawing so a lot of my actual line drawings are just kind of tiny wrist flicks haha. As for my actual brush settings, I tend to either go either really opaque with heavy paint or if I am really rendering for the final look then I tend to use a lot of more transparent brushes.

@rushyit 5 месяцев назад

@@ForrestImel Thank you so much for the reply, it's mean a lot! 👐

@fabianskyplaza 5 месяцев назад

I always wonder how much they charge for a splash like this

@ForrestImel 5 месяцев назад

I was paid $5000-$6250 depending on the type of splash it is, however I worked through an outsourcing studio so they also take a cut, their cut is usually anywhere from 30-50% so the total payout for a splash like that through a studio is closer to $8k-10k.

@tychobrandsma2929 5 месяцев назад

Did you already make stuff for smite 2?

@ForrestImel 4 месяца назад

Unfortunately I stopped working with them before I even knew Smite 2 was a thing :(

@Kamil2142 5 месяцев назад

How does one make a perspective grid like that? Is it available anywhere?

@ForrestImel 4 месяца назад

I actually just use a 2 point perspective grid with vertical lines I found online as a separate image and then drag it onto my images. It's quicker that way and guarantees that the perspective grid I have is correctly laid out.

@Kamil2142 4 месяца назад

@@ForrestImel Thank you!