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this is so me btw, I wish i could draw soo bad

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Also don't be afraid of being very specific about your medium. I did get into drawing somewhat but once I realised just how much work acquiring certain skills would've been, in particular around shading, I tossed all of that and focussed on sculpting where I don't have to do work a GPU can do for me. I can bloody program the GPU to do projection and physically-accurate shading, could do that for a good decade back then, I'm not going to do it in my head.

So start up blender and give it a whirl. Only thing you need is a PC that's not entirely ancient (though a beefy one is certainly nice) and a graphics tablet. (Don't sculpt with a mouse. I mean you can give it a spin to get a conceptual impression but the results will never be good due to lack of control and your index finger is going to die -- if you don't want to buy a tablet right now try hard- and subsurface modelling).

Youtube is your friend, start here if you never used blender (and enable right-click select, last video, to instantly be a pro) because blender on first startup indeed looks like this, then do the obligatory owl and by that time youtube should know what you're doing and recommend stuff.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

Here is an alternative Piped link(s):

start here

obligatory owl

Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.

I'm open-source; check me out at GitHub.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Funny you mention blender, I've been working with it for a couple years, and just started on maya a year ago.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

Fallen to the dark side, you have. Train your mind to resist, you must.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

its sad I get it, but there is no real choice when working with 3d as a job