Redoing things

After initially starting on a dirt texture for the ground, i decided it was pretty naff about half anhour in. So yesterday I built some quick frames for trees and today I've spent an hour making a new texture for the rocks on the ground. This will be tilable once its ready.

Grassy dirt

Tarted up my texture a metaphorical fuck load in comparison to yesterday. Its not crisp yet by a long shot, but will do for now. Also adjusted some of the modeling on the main rock to suit a blend between the pebbles around the edge and this. Should work... sorta? I hope

Dirt

Started to paint the dirt texture with some grass, its the base that will go below the foliage, I feel it needs far more grass (and detail) but that will come in time. 1hr also watching the wire makes slower progress  ;D

Viewport canvas

Looked into the viewport canvas and stuff this evening. Very interesting if I could get it to work, I dont think the multi subobjects made things easy for me, and my version of max isnt the same as the tutorials which make it look completely different.... not so helpful. Anyways, added a few refinements to the cliffs, baked a normal for the ground and waped some basic colours down. Willtry to use Viewport canvas to make the seams blend better. 

Refining details

Just an hour of detailing into the texture. slowly coming along, still need to sort out the levels and colours really, but im happy with the progress.

Todays progress

Put another hour into refining the rock detail and shaping out the colours on the texture sheet. Attempted some moss last night but it looked pretty naff, removed it. May add that again as a seperate model to give it some bulk over the actual cliff face. we'll see

Normals and the start of the texturing

Finished off the low poly that stands at 1357 tris, and baked a normal map. Begun the texturing process giving some style to based on the shapes from the bake. 2 hrs work.

Also watched some tutorials about dynamesh. Very cool stuff, not so useful for this however...

Dynawhat?

So I added a little bit more detail to the high poly sculpt and tweaked some things I didnt like. I then proceeded to start building a low poly mesh in max, when my housemate walked in and said, why not dynamesh? So tomorrow I will learn about dynamesh. 30 minutes today

A new hope

So I've began to sculpt a rock. I'm pretty crummy with Zbrush, so i've been watching tutorials whilst doing this, so not much has been done. 1 hr progress

I felt like adding a bit more to this today, another hour and a half's work to this. Learning about the different brushes and shortcut keys in the mean whilst too.

New focus

So, I'm going to be away for a few days, back sometime next week. I feel that my drawing has come a long way since the beginning and I'm yearning for something new to do. So, I will now still spend an hour a night, however I will involve more of my capabilities, I will attempt to sculpt, model & texture using my new drawing abilities. Hopefully I will be able to post up something each day, but this may become harder due to the fact some days I wont have tools available to myself.

Lets see how this pans out.

Tonight is reference gathering time.

Moth

30 minute sketch of a moth, much happier with this attempt than what ive done over the past few days.

Road

25 minute landscape sketch, not particularly happy with this, very tired tonight and want to watch breaking bad. Ah well ill try harder tomorrow

Life drawing

1 hr life drawing. Lined it out first then began colouring in. Not particularly happy with this effort. Ah wells try try try again...

Various life drawings

Just some practice on people today. 50 minutes whilst watching TI3 replay. Navi vs Tongfu game 3. Anybody knows what that means, will understand why this has been quite unproductive.

Best squirrel ever

Okay so I spent about 10 minutes roughing out a squirrel before I was distracted, then cycled 30 miles with an old friend of mine, then met another old friend of mine and went to see Patridge, and now the day has past. It was day of the Patridge. Don't think I can be arsed to finish this one now :P

Catherines birthday card

Drew a card for my gf, wont post it up yet, as you know, its a  card for her... youll have to wait.

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tada!

Ninjwawa

Because why the hell not. 1 hr

Ninja croc

1 hr, crock is flipping in yo STICK TO THE FACE

Ninja Chicken

Ninja chicken 1 hr

Ninja Shark

Ninja Shark! its up in yo grill! 1hr

Ninja pig

Ninja pig yo 40 minutes

Octopussssssssssy

An Octopus! very happy with this, 1 hr 

Bumper car

Hurt my wrist today on a bumper car, so I drew one! 1 hr