James Gurney made a neat 3D model from craft foam to help him paint a robot

[frauenfelder]

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[Mister44]

Awesome. Using a real reference makes it so much more… real. It is what separates the professional illustrators from the amateur.

[Medievalist]

This one’s cool too, but I think it’s a 3D render job, not a model.

[SummerFang]

Mark, thank you, thank you, thank you for posting this! I just went down the rabbit hole of watching a bunch of his videos. He is great and his artwork is fantastic!