Crankshaft's Sketchbook

More updates. Everything else is super messy and not presentable but I made some progress with the tank. I'll post some advice I learned from my mentor about concept art soon, along with the figures.

Visual library studies.

Another Japanese Zero 1943





The world's first hybrid car. The Lohner-Porsche Mixte Hybrid, 1905.





Some heavy equipment.

Going to try and be more positive with my thinking: I think I'm making progress with the tank? It's amazing how we can overlook obvious problems when we spend so much time on one thing. At first my tank had the proportions of a baby! (Big head, stubby limbs and body)

Before



Now

Charlotte wrote: Honda!

Bonus points for you! Congrats!

Here's most of the work from my mentorship. It's over now but I learned so much. It doesn't look like much but he probably saved me 6 months of progress. Going to keep things raw and keep his notes and my notes together.

This first pic shows the difference between a concept pose and illustration pose.












Kit bash poses. The goal here was to learn how the body naturally connects. This is before.



After

Updates. Worked on the back of the tank some more.








Visual library study. 1954 Chevy Bel Air. Look at where all the chrome is located.







So bc I lack the hand eye coordination my mentor told me to start tracing figures and be more deliberate with my lines. Ie Where the muscle blends into a another muscle the lines should taper. It's very hard and it feels like I'm cheating.

Other things to practice:

-Focus on better intersections
-Merge my lines into more seamless curves instead of multiple arches
-Improve proportions

Updates. Did some more work on the tank. Pretty much done modeling, just need to show the different modes of the plow.

Going to render soon.









Visual library study. 1935 Buick series 40 model





Anatomy disaster.

Great studies, I would love to be able to draw vehicles, just too difficult!

Updates. More views of the tank. Will post the different modes of the plow soon. Also more anatomy stuff. Nothing to be proud of here, just straight up copying and cheating.