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What is this art style called?

A topic by chainsmokingscarecrow created Nov 04, 2021 Views: 311 Replies: 4
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I know this is an odd question but I am not an artist.

Hell I don't even pretend to be one on TV. 

I've gotten my script for a visual novel created and starting to search for free assests. Im also trying my best to make use of the Art Packs given to us. However Im wanting the whole game to gel and have a coherent and consistent look. My question is, what is this art style even called? I see it in things like concept art all the time but I've never seen a name with it. I can only imagine if i get a name to the art style it can help me searching for more free assets under CC searches.  Everytime i've ever seen it i've always chalked it up to a concept/digital/oil/sketch/beautiful type piece, but these aren't really helping in my search. 

So any help would be appreciated, please and thank you.

Well it does look like digital concept art first and foremost. You could say it's influenced by 19th-century impressionism (closer to post-impressionism). These works were always oil on canvas and the artists tried to convey their ideas without necessarily over rendering the image as you would with realism.

It's a good fit for digital concept art since it too is about conveying ideas quickly.

I hope this helps. However, you might have trouble finding free CC works like this depicting a modern city at night. I wish you luck.

Submitted

Thank you, i've mostly just always called it concept art in my mind cause any time ive seen it is from video game art books. But i'll try my googlefu with a couple of additional keywords.

Host

Try searching for digital painting, speedpaint, digital art WIP, digital impressionism.

Submitted

Thank you very much. I will add them to my searches!