• Inspect your trinket and write down a detailed description of it. See if you can already spot any traits, and mark them if you do.

Alternatively, you can take a photo of your trinket, and draw circles around any unique physicalities you see.

• Write down all of the unique physical characteristics in a list. Leave enough space behind each trait.

Ask yourself these questions to make sure you have all of them written up:

What materials and textures is it made of? What qualities do those materials and textures have?

What is its shape? Look both at the silhouette and note any interesting curves/divots/edges and look at the primary shapes its build out of.

Are there any signs of wear/usage? Any customisation that separates this trinket from any other by the same name?

• Create a small reference board. Look through your existing visual repertoire and think about the traits you've written down. Collect all the illustrations, paintings or otherwise visuals that depict a similar subject, character, traits or feature stylistic choices you would like to reference.

• Go back to the list. Behind each unique physical characteristic, write down how you can recreate/incorporate that into your visual work.

• Now you can create concept art! Use both the reference board and the list as your basis, but try out different things (perspective, art style, colors)!