I am 14 with a passion for art and a dream to work as a concept artist for riot games in los angeles but i wouldnt say i am amazing at art i was wondering what i should do to help up my skill as a concept artist so i am able to work at riot games when i am older
The same way you would get better at anything else. Just practice a shit ton. Skill wise, there's nothing better you could do to reach that goal than practice. Draw all the time, obviously not to detriment of your other classes or activities, but still draw whenever you get the chance. Try and be creative about what you draw so that it's your own style, and not just a copied version of somebody else's. Also, it may help if after working on something for a while and if you think it's good work, post it on the boards just to get your name out there. It can't hurt.
As far as actually landing the job goes, I would say you don't have to worry about that as much for now, but most professions want some sort of leadership experience or just a great deal of shown interest in what you are doing. If it's what you really want to happen, and you put the work in, you got it!
Practice practice practice!!
Since you are specifically interesting in working for Riot as well, you can look at all the posts some of the Reds have made where they describe in detail the processes they go through while designing champions and skins.
They just came out for one for the Star Guardian line of skins and they periodically have been releasing them for champions as well.
Study the people who you admire!
This is what I've been telling my friend who is in thesis photography right now. She's a bit lost on the whole thesis part, so I've been telling her to find some photographers she really admires, study their work, but even more importantly, read their words! They're able to do it as a career so you want to follow in their path in terms of what they do, but always put your own spice & twist to it.
Good luck on your artistic journey!
P.S: To whoever down voted this kids post, fuck you. He/she will probably go farther than your negative ass.
start now. Take art classes thru school, install programs that enable you make concept images on a computer. And when you go to college, definitely make it your dream to take art/graphic design classes. Hella look into internship programs wherever they're offered. Don't make the same mistake I did where I started late after graduation from university. I've applied to Riot before to become a narrative writer, but was unfortunately denied. I earned a degree in journalism. But with you, you got tons of time to bolster your portfolio. The main thing is that you need experience before that "dream job," ya feel? Hope this helps!
Along with what other people said here (PRACTICE!), ex-Rioter Kienan Lafferty recently started a new series on YouTube focusing on the road to becoming a professional concept artist and reaching a kind of "top":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aMreh9SYSnE&list=PLb0T1WxEbeALF4T2rw-s-PUi-vDbRasLx
Kienan explains this himself, but the series focuses on both general things, like certain golden rules, and things as specific as designing weapons based on one or two established shape languages. He's great. I've been watching Kienan for years now and he's been super helpful to me as a passionate concept artist with seriously big dreams.
Have fun in your awesome journey! Hope we meet at Riot in the far future! :D
like everyone else is saying, practice as much as you can. i learned 90% of my art skills, particularly my digital art skills, by doing tutorials and finding art that i liked and copying it or its style. as far as human figures goes, spend a lot of time working on proportions, like a LOT. to the point where you can just whip out a perfectly proportioned basic human figure in a matter of 20 seconds in whatever pose you choose. like you would with any art piece, start with the fundamental essentials and build from there. color theory, light patterns, cloth and hair physics, how to create texture, getting emotion into a piece/face/body language. find a focus that you particularly love and become the best at it. once youve gotten down making solid quality pieces without excessive effort, start getting creative, try to make the pieces your own. if you can, try to avoid just going for the same art styles everyone uses (feeding off of them is good though).
