Matthew Kean Sketch book

[Framedworld]

okay back to sketching

a thinner torso study:

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I gotta admit I f’ed this one up pretty good. but this thread is a sketchbook of progress good or bad, so here you go. I wasn’t using a reference in the beginning spent about an hour screwing up the basemesh before saying F it! and using a ref and finishing it twenty min later

Lesson here kids: If your not comfortable with something, use a ref to help, otherwise you’ll bang your head against the wall and never wake up.

[Framedworld]

Im starting my superhero project. not exactly sure which one, but seeing as they are all almost the same herculean body with a different clothing Ill be good

Any Ideas for a hero, preferably DC. I have the encyclopedia and there are just so many! haha.

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[Framedworld]

Oh and I used a special reference for this: my own sketches. Look at the difference:) I’m happy

[Clintus_Maximus]

Hey man its a good start.

I know you are going for a more exaggerated form but your muscles are off too far to look good even in a cartoony way (IMO). You said your reference was your sketches… when doing muscles working from real reference is always preferable unless you’ve been life drawing for 20 years, which you may have, i don’t know lol. An easy way to get great muscle reference is to look at MMA fighters.

Use google and search for images of guys like Kimbo Slice, Rampage Jackson, Frank Mir, Todd Duffee, Filipe Nover, and Diego Sanchez. You’ll get all different body types and the muscles that those body types will show off at their peak. From there you can exaggerate the forms and bulk them up so they look more over the top. Plus they only wear shorts when they train/fight so you’ll be seeing almost everything, and certainly everything that you would be needing making any character (assuming they aren’t going to be naked).

[Framedworld]

no joke about 20 min. turns out deleting the higher res levels leaves a subtle end. this more what I should be aiming for? like in the beginning of the thread.
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[Framedworld]

Update.

New figure, going to do a low res game model of it. Been really depressed lately, haven’t done much sculpting. I needed to get some stuff out, so I made this:
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[Framedworld]

updates:

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[Framedworld]

here is where Im at so far:

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[Framedworld]

I’ve just been updating this girl lol, and yes its a female (check the crotch)

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[moonlitmaverick]

interesting concepts. are the skin material renders from ZBrush. If yes, what material have u used? Looks nice.

[Framedworld]

I did the texture for it, phase one

[Framedworld]

still working on the alien dude for realtime,
as a break I did an old man head:

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[adampof]

good work

[Framedworld]

thank you, heres an update:

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[Framedworld]

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Started a texture for this dude, next is posing and then off to Maya for the hair and render! all before the feb 25, where I’ll have to submit this bad boy for a contest

[Framedworld]

New personal project, I call it “wise guys”
Going to be done in a family photo esque setting.
Each is a tough guy, I’m thinking of giving em torn suits and knocking the crap out of each one. it’ll make the photo that much more intense.

This is just to show off each one, and doesn’t represent the final composition.

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[Framedworld]

as for the old guy:

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[Framedworld]

Chipmunk concept for a short a short one of my classes is working on

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[Framedworld]

Did a quick render test of the wise guys in zbrush:

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[Framedworld]

I’ve begun the first layer of detail on the chin tuft guy:

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