During class this week we were shown how to sculpt an elephant. Mine ended up looking like a complete monstrosity, but I learned a lot from this process! It also made me lauhg a lot. IDK why, but art that makes me laugh is a success in my mind.
I visited sketch fab, and looked at a lot of ‘cute’ character concepts just for some inspiration. I knew what I wanted to do, but going through these talented people’s sculpts, textures and posing really motivates me – the more practice I get, the better I’ll become! I wonder if some day I’ll be as good as these artists:
(The Neo Geo girl is a particular favourite, to be honest.)
When I picture my final project, I picture something like this in terms of atmosphere – I want to achieve the little firefly/star effect that this artist achieved, which runs the whole way round the sculpt.
I’ve decided to name my little Axolotl Explorer ‘Gus’. I drew up a little reference sheet for him, so that I could start blocking out his body in a T-pose – I found this really helpful when I sculpted the fruit for last week’s homework, so I thought it’d be best to use this technique to start:
This is how the character looks as of the work I did today:
I’m really pleased with the model so far, hopefully it’s all symmetrical and good to work with going forward! I am going to show it to Henry in my next 3D Literacy class.