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Sketchbook of Brett Bean

Enter in to the weird and wacky world of Brett Bean, as we delve into his imagination and take in his fantastic sketchbook!

Enter in to the weird and wacky world of Brett Bean, as we delve into his imagination and take in his fantastic sketchbook!

After asking his mother if he could be a drummer at an early age, Brett was handed a piece of paper and a pencil because 'it was quieter', thus starting a slow descent into the seedy underbelly that is known as character design and visual development.

Through years of toiling and drawing, the egos, the self-deprecation, and the ability to endure, Brett emerged mostly human and finally employable. Since those fateful years he's contributed to film, TV, games (both digital and analog), pitches and books.

When not working for clients he is busy on his fifth art book, a new graphic novel collection of short stories, and fine-tuning his own screen pitches for the screen.

With a passion for travel, caffeine, volleyball, Tom Waits and speaking in the third person vernacular, Brett currently freelances, teaches, and lives with his wife Julie, a brilliant jewelry designer, in Pasadena, CA. You can find him at www.2dbean.com.

Messing around with a big brush pen is super-relaxing to me

Who doesn't love pirates?

Some sketches of a voodoo-inspired villain I've been messing with

These are really fun as you can explore any shape. Nothing is too weird for robot heads

Here are some rough and tumble western types. Again, just explorations of shape and personality

A doodle in a direction I might take one of my storylines; at this stage, I'm still figuring out my level-of-detail-to-time-it-takes ratio. A lot of my sketches happen this way as I experiment

Just an old man in his hover chair

The base drawing for a Vlad the Impaler idea

This guy's face was imploding, so I pushed it along too far, just to make myself giggle

Related links

Head over to Brett Bean's site
Grab a copy of Sketching from the Imagination
To see more by Brett Bean, check out Sketching from the Imagination: An Insight into Creative Drawing, Digital Painting Techniques: Volume 5 and Prime - The Definitive Digital Art Collection

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