artist research: eytan zana

EYTAN ZANA

Eytan Zana is an American Concept Artist who is currently working for one of my favourite game developing companies: Naughty Dog. Eytan mostly specialise in environment designs which he had personally contributed to one of the best games of all time, The Last of Us and Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception. He had worked for clients such as: Paramount Pictures, Universal Pictures, Digital Domain and Wizards of The Coast. Eytan is a pretty inspirational artist which I would look up to, even though I just recently found him from researching on environment art. Eytan's art style are extremely detailed which I am very interested in checking out every single detail he has to offer. The environment art that he had painted are realistic and the effects on the environment art are realistic as well. 

When I was having my personal art class back in Malaysia a couple months ago, my art teacher did explain the technique theory behind the art itself. In order to get the perfect art like these, the artist has to paint a perfect grayscale piece of the same drawing before putting the colours on. I've watched some tutorials and learnt some new techniques in the meantime of creating a grayscale thumbnail art, most artists use the same technique of grayscale first then colour, due to the reason that the artist will be able to focus more on the lighting and perspective instead of focusing more on the colours. It takes hours or even days to complete one single environment art, which it is best to make sure it is not rushed to be completed or it wouldn't be as perfect as it is. I believe that Eytan had contributed a lot on his artwork which results a beautiful and precise environmental art piece.