Uploaded October 2024 | Updated September 2026, 2 hours ago

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WHAT DO ART DIRECTORS WANT?!! Let's ask them! If you are aspiring professional concept artist or illustrator, your success hinges on the impression you make on this one person making the hiring decisions - the art director. I have sent a list of questions around to 7 art directors (indie studios, AAAs and everything in between) to give us some real data and actionable insights on how we can make our portfolio and our approach as impactful as possible.

I'll be putting the full list of questions and answers into a blog article on DPS (Coming soon!)

0:00 - Intro
1:45 - When hiring, where do you look?
4:22 - What do you value most in portfolios?
7:09 - Portfolio dealbreakers
9:34 - Approach dealbreakers
12:23 - Best way to approach art directors
15:45 - Scary Question 6

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Hardy Fowler is a professional Digital Painter with work seen in productions for Disney, Magic the Gathering, and Games Workshop among many others.

Hardy's online academy, Digital Painting Studio, teaches the master-level skills, process and mindset he's learned from decades of experience as a professional digital artist.

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Friends of the channel and awesome artists and teachers:
Adam Duff: youtube.com/@UCf-cfRJyxATGTgWGiFkFUWA
Christophe Young: youtube.com/@christopheyoungart
Antonio Stappaerts: youtube.com/@UCltFySN5X6ySPNF6nQNAh4Q

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