Reply To: Polybook – Aaron “The Cabbage Detective” Rudderham

I’m not dead!

Hello to you all again, and sorry for being away for so long, though with how fast the internet seems to forget if you don’t remember me then hello, I’m the guy with the bee avatar who forgets the FoV slider exists, nice to meet you!

Now, for the 2 of you who are curious as to where I have been, it’s rather simple: A couple weeks ago I received a(n admittedly self inflicted) injury in both my lower back and legs. Now whilst it was rather minor in the grand scheme of things it meant I couldn’t sit at my currently awfully uncomfortable chair for even medium length periods without being in pain. So not only could I not do a lot of Blender stuff it also hit my motivation pretty hard, especially seeing how far the rest of you were progressing (though I certainly had my fair share of fun during that time). But it now appears that I’m on the mend and a new chair is in the mail so I’m back to work again!

Fortunately whilst I haven’t done *much* during that time I do have a few things to share. First of all is the progression of that little eyeball creature I made, who’s come quite a ways, though there’s still plenty left to be done! His name is Isaac, the Eye With a Sack:

Got a bit of a cultural blend here as you can see…

I originally gave him eyelashes but due to messing them up because I’m rather inexperienced with hair physics I think I scared my friend off from putting them on ever again because he said they look like something I don’t dare repeat here. I’ll probably end up adding them myself anyways.

Now the bear hasn’t really had any proper visible progress, what I’ve been doing consists of weight painting the rig and hoping it doesn’t break (spoilers: it always does).  However this doesn’t mean I’ve made absolutely no visible progress at all…

If you look at the last image I shared of it you’d realize that one of the patches was blank. This is because my friend came to me and said he wanted me to draw him something to put on it. I was initially going to dismiss this due having pretty much zero experience in 2D art but due to desperately wanting to learn I decided this was a good motivator. Now whilst this is going to be a patch, making it pretty much entirely white on a black background, I decided to do some basic colouring and shading nonetheless, as I wanted to learn. So I must stress this is both my first drawing ever and is still a WIP, but here’s what I have so far:

I might add individual hair strokes on the face yet, hence the WIP, but so far for my first attempt at drawing ever I’d say this isn’t so bad. Guess this makes this a sketchbook as well now lol.

Critique away! I’m looking forward to reading all your comments, and I’m very grateful towards this community in general. I apologise again for being absent for so long but now that I’m back I’m looking forward to sharing my progress with you and observing yours in exchange! Have a good day and happy Blending!