In part one of Creature Design, Rich’s goal is to quickly create a number of creature concepts from scratch. He accomplishes this wonderfully, focusing on the pure creative process rather than the technical. While there are 4 finished concepts shown here, his process takes us through multiple iterations of various ideas.

“Watch, learn, enjoy, and don’t take our jobs. Thanks.”

To download, follow the link from the dvd.massiveblack.com site, or go directly to the purchase & download page. Includes the final Photoshop .PSD and a 1 hour Quicktime video.

Please welcome our newest Featured Artist, Goro Fujita. Goro is a 3D Character Animator and Visual Development Artist from Germany.

Check out his excellent work and amusing characters in the gallery.

A few of the major art media publishers have new announcements and releases this week:

• Ballistic Publishing has announced the upcoming release of d’artiste Digital Painting 2, and is calling for artists to submit new entries for publication. The entry deadline is March 24th.
• The Gnomon Workshop has several new videos available of interest to the 2d illustrator: Speedpainting to Matte Painting by Sebastien Larroude, and Character Design Pipeline by Thierry Doizon (aka BARONTiERi).

Our newest Featured Artist is Marc Simonetti, from Annecy, France. Marc is a freelance artist with a background in both 2d and 3d mediums and working within the games industry, book and magazine illustrations, and feature films.

Be sure to visit Marc’s featured gallery.

Jason Chan is back in a new Massive Black/Conceptart.org video release. In Digital Illustration, Jason uses Photoshop and his mastery of painting to create this 100% digital image of a damsel in distress. It sucks to wake up and find yourself being dragged underwater by a slimy monstrous giant, but as Jason shows us, at least you can still look sexy on your way down.

And yes, the giant tentacle is removing her clothes.

If you’ve been following our posts on these videos, you’d know that we just love’em. This is no exception, and well worth the money as always. Purchase and download from dvd.massiveblack.com.

Concept Designer Xavier Marquis shows off his concept art for the Playstation 2 title Killzone 2.

Additional images can be found here.

3DTotal has posted a collection of 100 tutorials for “creating beautiful art” in Photoshop. The tutorials are arranged on a single page using thumbnails, making it easy to find the subject matter or painting style you’re looking for.

Hover your mouse pointer over the thumbnail to view the short description and a link to the tutorial.