One tip that can be helpful for those who may be interested in doing character stuff eventually but still not quite sure how to put the shapes together…
A couple of years ago, I was browsing the kids section at my local library and came across a book on clay modeling (think play dough) for kids. Flipping through the book, I quickly saw how many of the shapes used in the book could easily be made using just the techniques that we learned this week and last week. I took it home and did several of the projects digitally as a great exercise in putting the shapes together.
This is, for the most part, how I put together a “play dough” style Star Wars Fan Art scene later that year and I used a bit more simplified version of it late last year in previsualizing a scene that I wanted to do in more detail.
And at least for the modeling, this is exactly what I did to create the rustic bedroom scene I worked on last summer.
Don’t be intimidated by a large scene. The key to doing a “big” scene is simply to break it down and realize that to make a large scene, all you need to do is put a bunch of “little” projects together. Take it one piece at a time, and you can do very detailed, complicated scenes, just with what you’ve learned so far.
