First attempt at 3D human modelling

This is how I started the model. I made half of it by starting with a ten sided cylinder and extruded the edges to create the rest.

I then used the mirror geometry tool to "mirror" the half to make it whole.

A closer look.

I finally added a turbo smooth to it to finish it off. It still needs work but this is it so far and for a first attempt i'm really happy with it. I haven't put a head on it because I don't want to.

Hey......Listen!!!

A new image i'm working on. It's Link from the Legend of Zelda series (incase you didn't know). There's going to be something in the background but I havn't decided yet. It's a toss up between Ganondorf or Hyrule castle or something else I dunno.

Finished robot (Dunno why its blue)

The finished thing. I have no idea why it's gone blue, something happened when i was experimenting with it and then it just turned blue so yeah. I changed the legs like I said and i'm really happy with how it now looks.

New robot

Robot I did yesterday. I'm still working on it, the legs aren't what I wanted them to look like so i'm going to keep going with them, maybe change them up a bit. I really like how this has turned out, I used a reference from my silhouette sketches in an old robot brief which i really liked.

SPERM EGG!!!!

The finished Sperm Egg, Surreal pic. I like how the planet has turned out at the bottom and how the lighting looks on the image. I'm still not too sure on how the hand looks but I still like it even if it is the weirdest picture I've done and have no idea where the thought for it came from.

Jars

I'm actually quite happy with this image. It looks alright compared to others that I have done. The tutorial was pretty good, he had some useful information. I know it's not spot on to Daarken's image, but I think it looks pretty good otherwise. I'm still getting used to the chalk brushes but other than that, I think this image turned out well.

Apple extra

Messed around with it to make it a bit better. I made the apple shorter and changed the light glare a bit on the centre. It's still pretty sketchy but I definatly prefer this one to the last apple (below).

Crappy apple

 This is the finished one. I bloody hate it so much. I couldn't get the texture right and the lighting kept f'ing up so I left it at this stage. I don't know what standard chalk brush Daarken uses because it isn't the standard ones on photoshop.

Starting out with block shade. Doesn't look like much, and the shapes wrong but I think the light looks alright so far.

Bobby Chiu tutorial, Creature

This tutorial was really good, much better than his last tutorial. His image is a hell of a lot better than how mine has turned out. Somehow, I lost the detail from the original sketch which he seemed to have kept all the way through, also, I couldn't figure out which brush he used so I varied through three or four different ones throughout. I liked the outcome of my image, but i'm still not happy with it, due to it not fully having all the detail that his has. I stuck to following his tutorial and kept to the same time limit as his, except from when I had to pause and go back a bit to figure out what he had just done, so overall this image took just over two hours which i'm quite happy with.

Wheel Robot

 Forgot to take screen shots along the way so this is the first one.

I'm pretty happy with how this looks, the minigun, in particular is the thing i'm most happy with. I got the inspiration for this robot from playing Borderlands, where they have a robot similar to this and I really liked it and thought I would make one myself.

The finished thing. Will be UV'ing and texturing soon :)


Nearly complete.

An update of how the robot is going:

     This is still a work in progress as I have been busy with other things, but the textures coming along well, i'm really pleased with how this is looking. I just need to finish up the shade and detail and it should be all done.

The gun needs light and shade as I havn't done any texture to it yet. I really like the gun as I have mentioned before and once its complete I reckon it will look really good.

The UV's for the robot.

UV and texture

Just texture

Personal improvement

For this week, I really havn't had a clear idea of what i'm going to focus on because I think there is far too much for me to improve on. I decided to kill my soul some more and watch more Feng Zhu tutorials and videos in some of the different areas that I wanted to improve in. I've watched some vehicle tutorials, landscape, anatomy and some traditional techniques that he shares. They are all bloody amazing and he uses some fantastic techniques which are very simply and effective that I think I can use in my own pieces.

I'm not sure if I will have anything to show that will be finished this week but I will try to get something up hopefully but the whole finish the game for the vertical slice has delayed me quite substantially so i'm not promising anything but I will try.

Mid teleportation...

I've not yet finished this piece yet, I got very tired the last few days. It's getting there but I would like to finish this as I think the finished piece would be quite good. I hate the smoke that i've done at the minute so i'll re-do it later.

This is the finished piece. I really like this and how it has turned out. The smoke looks really good and I think I got the shade right on him so that he pops out well. The face is more recognisable now as well so it stands out more that it did before. Overall, I think this piece turned out really well and I am really happy with it.

Nightcrawler

I'm a bit excited about this brief, Nightcrawler is a cool character to draw. I have an idea of what i'm going to draw. I might do him jumping out of the smoke from the bottom of the page, similar to the bottom left image on the board but different (obviously).

To be continued.....

 Getting there...

 This is as far as it's getting tonight. It's been far too tedious to complete, going back and forth between the layers and seeing what things he's done to them. It looks pretty cool though, i'm quite pleased with how it looks at the minute but yeah...needs to be finished though.

Just a thing that happened on one of the layers which I liked so thought i'd share.