Fergus Russell's sketchbook

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You could try to hit the wood texture a little bit harder to avoid thing looking to similar to clay.But you can get away with what you did pretty easy just with the color suggesting the material most of the time.If you want to challenge yourself try props that aren't the usual color you would expect the material to be and instead work to make the lighting and the stroke suggest the material instead.Example a orange armor, Ask yourself what kind of aging would fit?What the reflectivity of the material? How can you suggest the material using it silhouette(example fur silhouette is very distinct).You can also try to let say do 10 props just in black in white but you try to make what ever texture read with a minimal amount of stroke.(Brush economy)(Useful for concepting) You can also do completely black props focus only on silhouette that can be also good exercise to think more about shape language for example you do a set of 3 props the same object but with each one having a specific shape(triangle,square,circle) as it main basic shape to construct from.You could also try to do set of props and think in term of composition arrrangement,camera angle and etc.

Outside of the challenge aspect you can carve the challenge to serve your purpose it doesn't have to be a random happy accident.