How does professional make their Reference sheets front and side view?

[Anonymous]

Currently I've hand drawn my desire 8 characters which everyone of them has a unique feeling. But i am unable to make the side view. I was wondering how i am able to transition my hand drawn drawings into actual perfectly measured reference sheets front and side views. Thank you!

[damaggio]

Crop your image in Photoshop that is a square and apply to a square poly plane in Maya and move into position for modeling reference , you can also use image planes , they work well too.

[Anonymous]

The full step by step will be 

1. Take picture of my hand drawn picture.

2. Crop the picture into a square... after that I couldn't understand or follow on what you've instructed me to doI'm completely new to 3d designing i am interested in continuing and turning this into my hobby and someday a profession. 

[damaggio · Accepted solution]

Just look on you tube how to model in Maya or how to use image planes in maya and you'll find a lot of useful videos.

Also if you look in the documentation for Image planes or right here in the forum.

A google search will also provide a lot of results.

Also how to model a car in maya videos is very useful because there's this kind of set up you are looking for.

[dgorsman]

You're better served by scanning the paper to an image file rather than taking a picture.  This will remove all distortion, lighting, and so on.

The "professional way" usually involves doing everything digitally with a pen tablet.  You can start out with hand sketches if you don't have the high-end tools, but it's good to switch to a strictly digital format as soon as possible.  That way you can explore multiple concepts and just swap out the reference images without any issues from scaling or position.