Darktiste Sketchbook

[darktiste]

Blender is a great tool for all kinds of things. Well worth the time to learn it.

You might already know this, but you can turn on the 'images as planes' addon that comes with Blender. Then you can drag and drop reference images and videos into your project. Could help you match the material you're going for more closely.

Well depend if i need to make an arrangement of multiple object in a scene else i use use pureref to set my reference and avoid it crowding the space in my blender scene.(I hate layers i am guilt of using them a bit to much but they are great for none destructive workflow specially in concept art where you want your option to stay open also they make it easy to go messy around with what ever blender as to offer.What is great is using 2 plane of a subject matter and create a 3d object base on an orthographic view of the object to get more consistent proportion but you can aswell just work for a simple front view you will just have to make more decision for the thickness of the object and what might be different from the back of the object... like i would not use only a front view of a character there is just way to many thing that are unique to the back view because character are organic so more unique but for symmetrical object like bowl let you just need one front view and it pretty much all you need obviously the more complex the more likely you need would want to figure out thing out before modelling but it really depend how fast you become like it would have been stupid for me to use blender because of how unresolve my understand of how to be effective with blender i had to make project just to polish my skill throught a few painful test project to figure out how blender would incorporate itself to my tool kit.So take blender as a playground right now don't make the mistake of being focus on random project where you forget how thing work.The best way to learn i think is to make sure you try address problem you have that free your time for the ''problem you enjoy'' this way you work to personally make your work more rewarding and you actually remember thing instead of roboting your way throught the tutorial.