Paul Leli
Principal Concept Artist
Paul Leli is a Comic Illustrator and Concept Artist.
Over the last 14 years of work, Paul has garnered notoriety directing, writing and producing music videos, short films, and commercial productions. He has extensive experience in traditional mediums, multimedia and video design. Currently serving as a concept artist at Torn Banner, he has most recently worked at Ubisoft on Farcy 6, as well as various other Ubisoft brands.
He specializes in illustration for marketing, key art illustration, and character concept design. When not at the office, he is a freelance illustrator specializing in portraiture. He teaches courses in digital drawing, digital painting and sculpting.
Concept Art Mentorship
This mentorship includes 5 hours of one-on-one training, custom tailored to suit the mentees specific needs. We will build a development plan together in order to level-up your skills and help achieve your goals.
In this mentorship, we will learn how to produce commercial quality illustrations used to conceptualize films and games. We will cover various concept art workflows, from painting over 3D renders to a crash course on environment design in Blender (Eevee). 3D helps a lot to establish perspective, lighting, textures and many other important details in the concept art workflow and pipeline to better communicate your ideas to clients or studios. Working in 3D could get exponentially more technical and slow for concept artists due to the inherit constraints, this mentorship helps simplify the method to become more efficient in the process.
Whether you’re a beginner digital artist or a senior artist, each mentorship term is custom for you to help achieve your unique 2D/3D goals.
Learning Focus
2D/3D digital painting and tools review and skill assessment
Apply design principles and theories to 2D/3D design problems
Understanding of 2D/3D design principles, concepts, styles and terminologies
3D modeling Develop concept work based on industry constraints
Increasing speed and efficiency
