Uploaded March 2026 | Updated September 2026, 5 hours ago
Before anyone will care about your character art, they have to buy into it - they have to believe this this human being that you have created could be real. That can be really hard to invent entirely out of thin air, so let's use time honored axiom to do most of the work for us - the 80/20 rule! Learn learn how to ground our characters in reality so that they feel authentic, human and alive.
Learn to Draw and Paint People: digitalpaintingstudio.com/people-painting
0:00 - Intro
1:24 - 80/20 Rule
3:22 - Mundane as a Base
5:02 - Subtlety in Visual Story
6:46 - Familiar First
8:28 - What Not to do
10:04 - Borrowed Authority
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PAINT YOUR WORLD
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.
MENTORSHIP
→ digitalpaintingstudio.com/academy
CONNECT
→ digitalpaintingstudio.com
→ instagram.com/hardy_digitalpaintingstudio
→ artstation.com/hfowler
_______________________
Friends of the channel and awesome artists and teachers:
Adam Duff: youtube.com/@UCf-cfRJyxATGTgWGiFkFUWA
Christophe Young: youtube.com/@christopheyoungart
Tyler Edlin: youtube.com/@UCm9pCim4dDN4KJZUILGizgA
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Before anyone will care about your character art, they have to buy into it - they have to believe this this human being that you have created could be real. That can be really hard to invent entirely out of thin air, so let's use time honored axiom to do most of the work for us - the 80/20 rule! Learn learn how to ground our characters in reality so that they feel authentic, human and alive.
Learn to Draw and Paint People: digitalpaintingstudio.com/people-painting
0:00 - Intro
1:24 - 80/20 Rule
3:22 - Mundane as a Base
5:02 - Subtlety in Visual Story
6:46 - Familiar First
8:28 - What Not to do
10:04 - Borrowed Authority
_______________________
PAINT YOUR WORLD
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.
MENTORSHIP
→ digitalpaintingstudio.com/academy
CONNECT
→ digitalpaintingstudio.com
→ instagram.com/hardy_digitalpaintingstudio
→ artstation.com/hfowler
_______________________
Friends of the channel and awesome artists and teachers:
Adam Duff: youtube.com/@UCf-cfRJyxATGTgWGiFkFUWA
Christophe Young: youtube.com/@christopheyoungart
Tyler Edlin: youtube.com/@UCm9pCim4dDN4KJZUILGizgA
#conceptart #digitalpainting #creaturedesign #howtodraw #howtopaint #digitalart #arttutorial #learnconceptart #onlineartschool #magicthegathering #digitalpaintingtutorial #digitalart #conceptarttutorial #conceptartcareer #conceptart #artportfolio #portfoliochallenge #artcommunity #fakeittillyoumakeit #professionaldevelopment #artjobtips #artcareer
