Torben Lindströms Sketchbook

TorbenLindstrom

Hi there! It's high time I started my own sketchbook here on polycount.
I'm currently attending The Game Assembly in Malmö, Sweden. I do mainly concept art but I've also grown very fond of 3d now that I'm learning it.
If you have any thought on my workflow or my designs and if there's ANYTHING you think I'm missing, Then you'd do me a HUGE favor if you'd tell me. Thanks in advance!
Here goes todays work

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My latest render

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A sketch for a char. Trying to decide and work on a design as fast as possible, took about an hour to make

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concepts for a robot. I'm trying to get a bit out of my comfort zone and think of function and purpose rather than fall back on using cat legs, thin waists and broad shoulders. also did a study.

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A continuation of last days work

Rick16bit

Ha, nice corridors. Reminds me of the endless job to add some decorative or architectonal twists to our corridors to keep them somewhat interesting. Which isn't easy!

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Rick16bit: Sure isn't easy. Going into detail is something I tend to neglect I'm afraid and with my interiors I think it's pretty evident. Thanks a bunch for the crit!

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As usuall trying to speed up my process. Tried this time to define the reflectivity of a material early on. I tend to leave speculars till I'm rather deep in the painting but i figured they'd be an awesome tool to try to render out shape.

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Esbjörn Nord

Really nice mood on the last picture, but why not use the opportunity to tint the light source red to make a nice complementary pair?

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The environment is ment for a horror game, i looked at resident evil and tried to mimic it. It'd be nice to have a warm lightsource and still have it look creepy though

KristaW

I love the old midget. At least I think he's a midget But he's great and has lots of personality.

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Thanks kristaW. he's part of apersonal project with small chibi chars in exosuits. Still I'm not to fond of over-cuteness in chebis so I try to ad some realism to them. Which, yeah, makes them look like midgets rather than cartoony chibis. no matter what it's been an interesting experiment

a quick experiment with overcast light and fog

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a quick one today

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lightstudy for the win, I've taken a liking to overcast light resently, normaly i use all these very well defined lightsources and often i resort to just one but fog and overcast has such a nice mood to it that i've normaly don't use

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finishing up my personal project, been working on it half time for little over a month, learned a lot i'd say

Esbjörn Nord

Turned out great in my opinion! Love the human characters!

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Thanks Esbjörn!

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workin on a poster a friend asked me to do for his club, it'll be interesting to see how far I can take the details

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the finished version, tried not to mute the shapes to much with the render

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my ivoluntary pokemon
might even be a model in the future

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a sketch from the weekend

and a little study from today

Broken_Lawnmower

This is a nice sketchbook man! I'm really enjoying the textures on that wolf (although it seems a bit stretched). Also that ivoluntary pokeman is great. Don't stop posting!

SaboR1996

These are insane, the human sketches are some of the best I've seen in a while!!

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yet another study

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broken lawnmover: thanks! i've tried to use and create my own custom brushes these last months properly. And doing studies are a great way of producing them i've found out!
and I agree, he has a stretched feel to himself. thanks for the comment!

Sabor: wow thanks sabor, you made me smile like a kid on christmas eve there for a while.

made a sketch last knight and tried to render him out very quickly today.
I think I could use some more longer ongoing studies as well, but I've yet to feel I've mastered speed like some other people in my class have

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speedpaint ballistic extrafistic

wolfelectric narcoleptic

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lunch sketch

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and the last two days sketches

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been at my parents place the last days, nursing my operated toe.
Without no computer box I had to rely on good old pen and paper most of the time.

kevlar jens

Neat work, man. I love the shading and colors in your digital characters, and the hatching in your most recent post is nice.

Keep it up!

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thanks jens!

been hard at work trying to achieve a new level of rendering

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Ah, it's nice to be back again. I'm sorry for not posting and sharing my work very well during the summer but I'm going to end that habit now that schools started. Here are some thumbnail compositions for an kitchen turned into a post apocalyptic shelter
roughly 5 min on each sketch


And If anyone's interested, some stuff from this summer:

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A long timer I did at the start of this term.



And this space scene is a personal concept painting I'm working on at the moment


!!WIP!!

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space is the place!
Think i'll do a city scene next

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been a while since I did characters, hoppin to put some more recent ones in my portfolio

Vincent074

looks neat

I just like to mention that at the moment, it doesn't look like that stick is supporting the guy. It might look better if the bottom of the stick would be angled forward and his hands closer to his torso

http://puu.sh/5OO7y.jpg

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Thanks for the cirt vince! I think you're definitly right about the stick and placement of the arms.

One thing that bugges me is that she doesn't read as an old lady which was my intent.

I guess it's the broad jaw and the lack of hips

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Finished the old lady today, shes part of a personal project to redesign the main cast from crime and punishment



The detective is up next


and started a colour study of bierstadt

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polished an old speedpaint

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mostly been spending time with relatives and gathering energy for the new year. Trying to get back in my old workflow but I feel slower than usual. I think it's time to start to not get out of bed at 2 pm

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finally gonna get into some details!

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polishing an old speedpaint again, trying out some rendering techniques

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Some correcting and rendering of the face and maybe a little value fixes left

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seeing how far I can take an environment. Spent aprox 12 h on it

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finished the detective. Im pretty happy the end result
But I learned that with to much polish and nitpicking details my work tends to get uncanny, and the process takes waaay to much time.
Im going to aproach the next character with a more painterly aproach and really try to never get into excessive details. Rather work on the feel of the materials and the volumes with looser methods and rely more on texture solutions for rendering

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a loose sunday study. Been bad at uploading recently so I'm gonna gather some of my latest until tomorrow