(Wendy10698) My Blender Journey: Vertex by Vertex

[Wendy Robinson]

I’m starting this thread as place to track my progress and keep myself accountable.

Hi,
everybody! My name is Wendy. I’m 28 years old. And I’m one of Jehovah’s
Witnesses. I started learning Blender about 7 months ago and I
immediately fell in love with it!😍 I had been trying to learn computer
coding but it wasn’t quite what was I was looking for. Then I heard
about 3D modeling and I was like “That sounds like fun. Let me look into
it.” ENTER: Blender. Immediately  I was like “This is what I’ve been
looking for! This is so much fun!”😆

 Since then I’ve been hopping from
YouTube tutorial to YouTube tutorial. Shout out to Andrew Price. I think
of him as my main teacher in the basics of Blender. Did the Donut
Tutorial. 🍩Did the chair. Watched his video course about lighting. I
learned A LOT from his channel. After a while though I started to feel
like I wasn’t learning as much from Youtube but I was still missing so
much information. 🤔Only problem was I didn’t know WHERE the gaps were
exactly in my Blender knowledge. 🤷🏼‍♀️

Then I found CGCookie and I
fell in love again!🥰 I was drawn in by the HUMAN course (WIP) and the
Pothead course (also WIP). This website is amazing! I really appreciate
the structure of the lessons and in depth detail the teachers give. It
gives me a clear path to follow in order to keep learning.  I’m
recommending it to people who don’t even know what Blender is.😂
 Although when they ask what kind of stuff I’m working on and I say
“Pothead” it does take some explaining. Not many of my friends are into
Blender so I’m glad I found people who DO understand! I try and talk to
people about vertices and retopology, texturing and lighting and it’s
like I’m speaking a different language. Now I have a place where people
not only understand my struggles but can even help me with them!

Thank
you so much for the videos and for responding to my questions! Keep up
the amazing work and I look forward to meeting more artist and seeing
more of everyone’s art work!😎

[Adrian Bellworthy]

Looking forward to see all your awesome work, we already know you can model an awesome Pokemon!

[Mel C]

Ahhh.. the good old donut tutorial.. I tried to get my husband to learn blender by making him to do the donut. He gave up at the sprinkles..  😆 Anyway, looking forward to follow you in your blender journey!

[Wendy Robinson]

Thanks! ^_^

[Wendy Robinson]

Technically this was the first thing I ever made in Blender.

[Wendy Robinson]

Followed closely by this. =D

Granted this was not first try. That was lost in the Void a long time ago. The way I learn is by starting a project, getting part way through, starting it again, getting part way through, starting over AGAIN and repeating the process until I get to the finish. (Working on breaking that habit though) It was good in the beginning. Helped me to learn and get firmly in my mind the lessons I needed to learn.  

[Wendy Robinson]

@melinmotion (My first attempt at making cookies.)  >.<

Decided to make cupcakes instead. The plate is based off one we actually own.

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