Starting Concept Artwork

It's been quite some time since I last posted, but I'm back with another post! I however am not going to be talking about Landmark this time, rather I am going to be sharing some of the concept artwork that I've been working on. I am quite new to drawing concept art and I am not the best equipped right now, sadly. I have drawn everything on my two-in-one laptop/tablet so I haven't had any sort of pressure sensitivity available to make decent drawing marks. Most of the time I start off in grayscale and get the shape defined and then go back to add in some slight coloration, but I think I am going to stop drawing on my laptop until I can get an actual graphics tablet. I am going to be making a set schedule of drawing every night after 10pm which should give me a fair amount of time to get creative!

Now this picture is not my own concept, but it led me to the first piece I created. I wanted to try and recreate the image above by as closely as I could, while also giving it my own look. 

I realize this looks rather different than the original piece of work, but I did my best with the tools I had! I've realized that it is very hard to draw with depth when you have no pressure sensitivity like when you draw with a pencil. Hopefully I will be able to get a graphics tablet of sorts for my coming birthday/Christmas. 

This next piece was just me messing around with a different brush style. I like this piece because I was looking off of a picture that I was going to try and recreate, but I ended up just turning it into my own piece because I thought of different things to do.

My most recent piece I have two renditions of it. I was first just creating a somewhat cave environment, but wanted to see how a village would look in it so I also added a village. 

With this piece I've realized I struggle again with depth and a lot of the midground detailing. I find it hard to add textures to the terrain and making it look good.

I will say I'm not a huge fan of the village I put into this picture. But it was just a fun thing to add in to see how I'd do on it and I will say that you at least know it's a town of some sort. It was getting rather late when I made the mountains to the right of the town, so I could definitely work on them more. The mid ground flooring also is very very sparse of detail which is where I'm really struggling. 

I do like the foreground of the picture. I like drawing jagged rocks in the foreground, but I always fall short in the mid and background which disappoints me, but I know with practice I will get better. I know I will be my harshest critic, but I would love other people's opinions on each of these drawings. 

I hope to be able to save up enough money to be able to get a graphics tablet as well as buying a subscription for photoshop. I'm currently drawing all of these in Gimp. That is all I have for you today! As I said early, I will probably stop or slow down on the tablet drawing as it is a much harder process without having the control of pressure, but I will be doing pencil and paper sketches. I hope you have enjoyed reading and leave a comment if you like!