Crankshaft's Sketchbook

Crank, that's how I do things all the time. I have the opposite problem and never plan anything!

Just make some blobs and try to see something cool you like and it will inspire you, then just keep going from there.

But I think the biggest way to progress is muscle memory, practice so much that you learn a ton from your mistakes and soon you won't be making hardly any!

Some more fail:

Still working on getting the values. Trying a more organic workflow with a funky brush.



Anatomy fail.







Fixed up that window frame. I understand lighting much better now.



Since I'm trying to loosen up more here some super rough design sketches for a potential environment. It's supposed to be an underground utility tunnel. I'm a big FF fan so the inspiration is from FF7.

microscopi wrote:

Crank, that's how I do things all the time. I have the opposite problem and never plan anything!

Just make some blobs and try to see something cool you like and it will inspire you, then just keep going from there.

But I think the biggest way to progress is muscle memory, practice so much that you learn a ton from your mistakes and soon you won't be making hardly any!

Hey thanks for the advice! That's soo true and that's my problem. I have almost no confidence in my own abilities and I worry too much about perfection. I'm now trying something different with my new designs.

This is the look I'm after. Note this is not mine, it belongs to Squaresoft/enix. Some day I'll get there

*chuckles*

Progress has really dipped as I'm been really sick. Then again going 300 miles an hour hasn't helped either.

Rough design sketches. Here I was more concerned with what kind of pillars to use, where to put the main pipes, what kind of beams I should use rather than making a pretty picture.





Some more thumbs and somewhat nicer sketch of the environment. All done freehand and I guessed at the perspective. I've learned a lot about myself here. I was simply trying to bite off more than I could chew. These are perspective heavy so doing them big, freehand, in pen, and without grids was hard. I looked at one of my heros, Scott Robertson and a lot of his sketches are done small in ortho views and in simple camera views that have little perspective. So I learned to do anything more polished would better off done digitally or in 3d.





More fail. I don't know where I'm going or what I'm doing. Really itching to do another full personal piece.

Faillllll