concept art is needed for many kinds of projects, this will focus mainly on visual arts such as books, film and gaming. Steven cooper, an artist that has produced work for television and gaming has had a talk with us and informed a lot of this work.

 

Steven cooper took large amounts of inspiration in his early years from surrealist techniques. This technique is Soufflage, Cooper would spatter and blow ink around to create a random shape, then work into this shape, usually with a gel pen so that the ink would bleed into the wet paper.
I found that my ballpoints bled better with the ink in this process, however I felt I had to work back into it with a crisper edge to define the shape of a windswept tree.

 

H. G Geigers use of surrealist imagery often engaging in erotic-grotesque imagery and bio-mechanachalism is provocative and can be used to great effect to communicate a characters symbology.

I took inspiration from several of Geigers works to create this character.

[1] danzig how the gods kill cover

 

[2] Debbie Harry - Kookoo Cover

  

[3] The wheel of fortune  

I Created this piece with a ink sketch first, then moving onto a digital platform, Emulating the smooth airbrushed tones of Geiger work was hard to control however I feel that I have given a recognisable feel to the piece by using his trademarks.

frottage is a surrealist technique where one would take rubbings of a textured surface and then arrange them to create a work, most famously used and created by Max Enst 

 

[4] Le start du châtaigner (The Start of the Chestnut Tree)

I made this piece in a digital format since i found that the tones blured together too much when they where the same tone. Manipulating the levels illustrated the impression of depth better.

 this work was made through Decalcomania, a process where paint is spread thickly on paper and then a sheet of acetate or tin foil is pressed on-top of it through capillary action paint is spread out and when peeled off it becomes textured giving an extra level of detail. I found that my first prints with this process did not come up with many interesting shapes, having to do a second print from my original print to bring out the wettest parts of the print. I later added fine liner into it, describing the figures I saw better.

 

References: 
[1] Giger. H. R.
[2] Giger. H. R.
[3] Giger. H. R.
[4]Kustanczy. C

bibliography:
Kustanczy. C. 2013. Le start du châtaigner. [online]. [accessed 6th December]. available from:  http://www.digitaljournal.com/image/141858
Giger. H. R. 1992. Danzig III: How the Gods Kill. [online]. [accessed 6th December]. available from: https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/83/4c/29/834c298b258a4d09abbc942c854bab22.jpg
Giger. H. R. 1992. Kookoo. [online]. [accessed 6th December]. available from: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KooKoo#/media/File:Debbie_Harry_-_Koo_Koo.jpg
 Giger. H. R. 1992. The wheel of fortune. [online]. [accessed 6th December]. available from:https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/ea/b4/63/eab463850e6a1d19b3393f484e6c5d2b.jpg