Concept Development Steps.

Images on this post were taken from Deviantart, member dustsplat. as development and layout examples.

Characters.

Step 1. Thumbs/silhouettes. (below)
Step 2. loose sketches. (above)
Step 3. colour themes. (above)
Step 4. few colour concepts of your final idea's. (not just one)
Step 5. ortho's. We need to know what the back looks like don't we?


Environments. (same again really)

Step 1. Thumbs/silhouettes.(don't forget to think about assets)

Step 2. loose sketches/Composition's. (Remember your supposed to have a character in there)

Step 3. colour themes.
Step 4. few colour concepts of your final idea's. (not just one)

Step 5. a nice final full render of the area you wish to make. (don't forget our environments will have edges.

best way to do all steps apart from your lovely colour concepts. is to keep it simple stick to black and white. or even just line art. no wasting time on lovely drawings early on. sorry forgot the name of the guy who did these.