Reply To: Boats/Ships?

[Sean Woleslagle]

First off – you all are awesome, very humbled to get to be a part of this awesome community! 

@gradyp and Martin, one of the main reasons I wanted to get better at this in particular is because of the amazing work I’ve noticed by @otowa in the gallery in the past. I’m about 8 months into my learning journey right now, but when I notice a weak spot I want to hit it.

Thibault, your work has been HUGELY inspirational for me in my learning journey. I see your pieces in the gallery and they’re seriously impressive. Keep doing what you’re doing! And thank you so much for sharing this out with me! I’ve never tried a lattice so this will be a new one for me. I’ll use what you gave me for starters and then might have more questions for you eventually but will definitely be respectful of your time if I reach out.

Omar, as always thanks for the awesome advice, man! I am trying to get some more practice in with modeling. Ever since taking Kent’s sculpting course I’ve been working as hard as I can to get better at sculpting characters, more on that to come soon. My day job picked up and just trying to squeeze as much time in as I’m able. I really respect what you said about “you’ll just be copying what they do and next time you have to do it on your own, you wont know what to do. In reality I’d say you just have to model a lot and by a lot I mean a lot, and make a lot of mistakes so your brain starts to get around the mental complexity of modeling complex stuff”. 

I think that’s really what I need to be doing is just a lot more modeling. Any of you that do both sculpting and modeling, how do you find a good balance between the two?