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Write about a person who has a strong and clear “brand.” List three best practices that they consistently do. How can you apply their best practices to your own work?

Daryl Mandryk is a concept artist and illustrator working for Massive Black. His artistic style and form usage is instantly recognizable, and it is because of the types of form, attitude and energy his concepts have that his work is sought after.

Mandryk doesn’t use 3d art in any of his initial form, environment or character sketches. He uses silhouettes even in perspective to mass in his work before refinement. Because I aspire to do concept art professionally, being able to completely understand dimensional form and dynamic lighting without the aid of a 3D program would greatly help my work.

Mandryk’s sketches are also some of the loosest I have ever seen in their initial phases. He describes them as almost abstract pieces of art that are refined into solid forms. I would definitely benefit from having the kind of looseness he has with his early process.

Also, a prominent thing to mention about Mandryk’s work is his storytelling ability. In his environmental or “action” images, you get an excellent sense of characters’ attitudes, action and complete mood of the scene all from a single image. This is something that as a concept artist I have to aspire to be able to do – telling a story instantaneously through a single image.

I recommend anybody interested in concept art or rapid digital form sketching check out his work!

www.mandrykart.com/
http://mandrykart.wordpress.com/