Fantasy Card Illustartion with Randy Vargas

PART 1

Planning and Thumbnails Part 1 of 3. Randy Vargas shares insight into his entire process for creating a fantasy illustration for TCGs. In this first part of a three-part series, he covers getting the brief from a client, beginning to thumbnail, getting feedback, and then refining the design of a character in preparation for the final sketch.

PART 2

Sketching Part 2 of 3. Randy Vargas shares insight into his entire process for creating a fantasy illustration for TCGs. In this second part of a three part series he covers the process of creating the sketches that would get sent to the project Art Director. He covers composition, cleaning up the sketches, color flat and exploring final color, and the final presentation that will be sent to the AD for approval.

PART 3

Final Illustration Part 3 of 3. Randy Vargas shares insight into his entire process for creating a fantasy illustration for TCGs. In this final part of a three part series he covers the process of creating the final illustration. This begins with basic posing of an asset in Daz3D, drawing over it, and blocking out the local color before going on to render the figure and background before the final polish pass and delivery to the client.