Hey I really appreciate your videos, I work as salesman for a design and build contractor specializing in pavers, landscape, walls and backyard renovations so alot of what you do is very similar to what I'm doing. I use concepts to do my plans and I love it, especially since I can make really accurate scale drawings. Love the videos and would love to see more of your layering process, what your traditional education taught you about layouts, plant selections and linework and then the thing that gets me is your stuff is gorgeous and mine looks like dog shit comparatively. If you can get into the typography and how you learned that, as well as how you keep such a consistent design language through your drawings that would be great. Thanks for adding to the barren concepts app reference videos, it is badly needed and very much appreciated.
Thanks for the kind words! More is definitely on the way. Just trying to find the time to wrap it up! Keep working at it! It’s cliché but practice makes perfect. When I started drawing trees traditionally in school, they looked like sad broccoli and I’d be lying if I said it didn’t backslide a bit when I switched to digital :) Just got to stick with it! Also, find your style. Being inspired by others, for sure, but develop your own language. Once you’ve figured that out it all becomes second nature.
HI Jerry. My uphill grind on going digital currently is that less-featured version of Concepts that they offer for Android/Windows compared to the full features provided to iOS. I'm not really a Mac person, or are our offices. It's a bit frustrating that some sort of gatekeeping is happening here. So I am at a crossroads: (1) switch to iOS; (2) look for another sketch app like Sketchable; (3) just stick it out with Photoshop and its complexity. If you have a sway on the Concepts developing team, please urge them to aid the demographic working on Windows/Android.
Sorry for the delayed reply here. Not sure if you saw or not, but it appears your prayers have been answered! ha As for apple products in our field...I 100% agree. The only apple products I work with are my iPhone and iPad. Everything else (3d, Cad, Graphic Design) is all done on pc. Most of the rendering programs aren't even available on Mac and to build a mac strong enough to run them would take the cost of a whole office worth of pc's. Anyway.. I've worked with several companies that have all had a unique work flow, but we always came back to Concepts simply because the vector based workflow allowed for so much flexibility. Especially in design-centric offices that were heavy on collaboration. Pixel painters like procreate and photoshop definitely have the upper hand on the high-end watercolor style and photo-bashing, but outside of those specific uses, I stick with Concepts App.
For me, the program always just opens a new doc with the settings I had set for the last one. So if that's pretty consistent, you'd see the same thing each time.
Hi Spencer, From what I can tell you might be referring to the section about layers or me using the guide tool that may be out of view? I’ve been primarily shooting these in 9:16 format and focusing on one main area. For instance, the main topic here is the tool wheel and what I use there. I’ll be uploading more in depth standard view formats in the near future.
Great explanation and love your drawing and concept style, looking forward to more content in the future
Thanks so much!
Hey I really appreciate your videos, I work as salesman for a design and build contractor specializing in pavers, landscape, walls and backyard renovations so alot of what you do is very similar to what I'm doing. I use concepts to do my plans and I love it, especially since I can make really accurate scale drawings. Love the videos and would love to see more of your layering process, what your traditional education taught you about layouts, plant selections and linework and then the thing that gets me is your stuff is gorgeous and mine looks like dog shit comparatively. If you can get into the typography and how you learned that, as well as how you keep such a consistent design language through your drawings that would be great. Thanks for adding to the barren concepts app reference videos, it is badly needed and very much appreciated.
Thanks for the kind words! More is definitely on the way. Just trying to find the time to wrap it up! Keep working at it! It’s cliché but practice makes perfect. When I started drawing trees traditionally in school, they looked like sad broccoli and I’d be lying if I said it didn’t backslide a bit when I switched to digital :) Just got to stick with it! Also, find your style. Being inspired by others, for sure, but develop your own language. Once you’ve figured that out it all becomes second nature.
What scale are you drawing in?
I typically draw in 1/8”=1’-0” but often deviate depending on the size of the project and the sheet size my client wants to use.
HI Jerry. My uphill grind on going digital currently is that less-featured version of Concepts that they offer for Android/Windows compared to the full features provided to iOS. I'm not really a Mac person, or are our offices. It's a bit frustrating that some sort of gatekeeping is happening here. So I am at a crossroads: (1) switch to iOS; (2) look for another sketch app like Sketchable; (3) just stick it out with Photoshop and its complexity.
If you have a sway on the Concepts developing team, please urge them to aid the demographic working on Windows/Android.
Sorry for the delayed reply here. Not sure if you saw or not, but it appears your prayers have been answered! ha
As for apple products in our field...I 100% agree. The only apple products I work with are my iPhone and iPad. Everything else (3d, Cad, Graphic Design) is all done on pc. Most of the rendering programs aren't even available on Mac and to build a mac strong enough to run them would take the cost of a whole office worth of pc's. Anyway..
I've worked with several companies that have all had a unique work flow, but we always came back to Concepts simply because the vector based workflow allowed for so much flexibility. Especially in design-centric offices that were heavy on collaboration. Pixel painters like procreate and photoshop definitely have the upper hand on the high-end watercolor style and photo-bashing, but outside of those specific uses, I stick with Concepts App.
How to save settings as a template instead of duplicate?
For me, the program always just opens a new doc with the settings I had set for the last one. So if that's pretty consistent, you'd see the same thing each time.
Is it just me, or are these videos being displayed in a way that cuts off the ipad surface to where you cant see everything he is trying to show?
Hi Spencer,
From what I can tell you might be referring to the section about layers or me using the guide tool that may be out of view? I’ve been primarily shooting these in 9:16 format and focusing on one main area. For instance, the main topic here is the tool wheel and what I use there. I’ll be uploading more in depth standard view formats in the near future.