Concept Sketching help? Time Machine Booth

Kainkun

Hello, I've been trying to learn a lot about technical 3D work but I need to focus on getting better at general design so I've been trying to sketch some concept thumbnails. This is all an idea of a Time Machine Booth. The idea was that time traveling become so common in a world that there are commercial time machines out in public like how there's vending machines or photo booths.

Any critique or tips on sketching helps. Feel free to suggest a direction I should go. I'm not sure if I should keep sketching new ideas or start narrowing down like on the second page.
Thanks


This is my first page, I tried to make many different shapes and styles


I decided a few to focus more on and tried to make different versions of those.


This is all of the references I gathered before sketching. I used pureref. I didn't have a specific direction I wanted to go in so its pretty scattered.

Thanks for looking

Eric Chadwick

Welcome to Polycount!

Moved your thread from General Discussion to 2D Art Showcase, where you will get the best feedback.

Kainkun

Thanks

Brian "Panda" Choi

Well, what kind of consumer device are you relating this time machine to? 

A photo booth?

A tanning salon unit?

What?

Harley94

It looks like you have a metric TON of ideas for your time machine, but your initial sketches don't show a lot of focus. I suggest beginning your design process by focusing your end goal to certain ideas and limitations. You already mentioned the idea of a time machine acting like a telephone booth, which is a great start! You can use that as a base, do some research to learn more about how a telephone booth normally looks and functions, and from there construct variations of a booth to see what's interesting, what works, and what gets your design closer to accomplishing your end goal. Not everything is going to work; this loose, quick stage is the perfect time to get the bad ideas out of the way. Good luck!

Kainkun

Thanks Harley, I thought that's what I tried, to do, most of the sketches are booth based and I have a section of reference images for booths but I guess I could have narrowed it down even more.