Bennett's Sketchbook

[bennettdurfee]

Design shape language refinement via sketching and a quick paintover in PS

[malcom]

love the process man. keep up the good work.

[bennettdurfee]

Concept Development Sketches

[bennettdurfee]

Sketchies

[malcom]

These sketches are all pretty cool. Will you be taking some of these as well into 3D? Anyway keep up the good work. Look forward to seeing more.

[bennettdurfee]

Thanks @malcom! Eventually I'd like to get these into zbrush. Kinna working out what the concept behind them is still. Playing with the idea of making 3 versions of one character showing how he'd transform from a protagonist to an antagonist over the course of a story. Got a quick lines and colors pass below. Thanks again!

[bennettdurfee]

Aaand a demon character update. Sculpt in zbrush and colors in photoshop

[HorizonDweller]

Great color skills , not to talk about landscaping, I know this one for you may be a simple one but landscapes is something I have to work on. Love it !

[bennettdurfee]

Thanks @HorizonDweller!

Theres a fun little exercise you can do using film stills as reference. Super helpful for sharpening those landscape skills. Take some time to grab some stills you find interesting from a site like Evan E Richard's Blog set a timer for 2min, grab a big blocky brush in Photoshop and paint as much as you can before the timer goes off. Only focusing on big shapes, color, and composition. Repeat for an hour or so its surprising what you pick up.

Heres a few I did a couple years ago in school. Really need to do more

[bennettdurfee]

Character of the week.. errr last week.. working to get better about posting consistantly.

[bennettdurfee]

Demon update! Got a bunch more work in on this guy, still more refining to do. But pretty happy with the big shapes. Render in Keyshot with some tweaks in Photoshop.

[bennettdurfee]

WIPs, this week's character & sketch for next week.

[bennettdurfee]

I am sooooo bad at this weekly character thing.... haha

[bennettdurfee]

Roughs for this week's character.

[bennettdurfee]

Weekly character concept sketch. Now slightly more weekly! Learning lots from this exercise. I seem to have a tenancy to neglect my reference and fall into unfocused noodling with shapes after the first linework pass. It eats up a bunch of time and I end up returning to the original idea.

[big-misch]

Nice stuff! Exploring shapes isn't a bad thing! You just have to make sure to move on, and stick you what you chose before!

[bennettdurfee]

Thanks, @big-misch! Totally agree commitment can be difficult but setting a deadline has been very helpful.

[bennettdurfee]

Demon character update and process images. Jumping into baking and texturing next.

[bennettdurfee]

Lil demon update

[bennettdurfee]

Some process images from boot camp