For hard surface art i am studying machinery

Booooo

Hello everyone,,

I'd like to increase my skills as a hard surface artist by improving my knowledge of machinery in general.

But I'm wondering what a good area of study would be to focus on for this purpose.

My first guess was mechanical engineering, but when I attempted to study that subject online it turned out to be mostly mathematical formulas, which are useless to me here.

sacboi

Industrial Design, is the area I'd suggest you explore further.

Paul Pepera for me was a visionary exponent in expressing an industrial aesthetic via his art:

https://www.artstation.com/artwork/lrJdV   

Zack Maxwell

Uuuuhh.. what's going on here?

RyanB

Buy machines.  Take them apart and put them back together.

Eric Chadwick

Haha copybot! Good catch Zack. Banned.

sacboi

...dagnabbit!