@bees-bees-fear replied to your post “I want you to know, I can't listen to Red Flags...”:

​Weeks? It has been a bit over a week since I posted it! :D You'll see him more though, he's my guinea pig for learning the process. Retopo is close to done, he just needs a mouthbag and his back+tail spikes plucked off (decided they should be separate objects, because I don't like the rounded look they have with subdiv, boo hoo) I learned a lot already, mostly from Cam.

Once he's watertight, I'll venture into the magical world of ✨alpha sculpting✨

And then UV unwrapping, ew.

he ate a bee

GOOD

In all honesty, I should really be working on a new video but I've been in a big nasty art block for like a year now (Tom's been very understanding :'O ). My commissioners/patrons are definitely feeling this too. And my bank account ahaha :') Someone kick my ass!!!!

I've been trying to be productive in something else at least. I decided to bite the bullet and start on a full body character - I'm still nowhere near done with the sculpt, but it's... something <_<

(he's my D&D/BG3 Dragonborn, Vaik)

So uhhh yeah MY GOD I want to make stuff so bad, I just need to... make it.

I found this pair of Hollóházi porcelain deers online that I can't afford so I made them in 3D instead. This was a modeling/rigging/texturing exercise Cam helped me with. (Here's a different listing where his antlers are intact)

the 5 stages of grief

anyway,

We're using Blender! It's wonderful, free and has a lot of incredible addons! And since it's a free and constantly developed software with a huge community behind it, you'll find a lot of tutorials and content to help you start learning it.

Some WIPs, unused stuff and production art for Red Flags

The 3D assets were modeled by @cameronaugust, I just did the texture paint on the Centipede house (hey, it only had to look good from that one angle!)

RatCready, my beloved... @cameronaugust mentored me in every step of this little project but the rigging was done entirely by him. I learned a lot!

[OG RatCready idea]

don't have to learn how to sculpt properly if you just give up halfway and lazily paint over it in Photoshop instead

I've done a very basic Blender tutorial months ago but I never tried sculpting. This lil Argonian head was one of my first attempts and of course I immediately wanted to try the grease pencil with it. Bonus weird variant: