paulogallo

Day 33 - 19/6 Did some manequin's today, starting on composition. Did all the modelling in my GF's house. I gotta manage better the time because i don't want to take much of the small time i have together with her and spend too much of it modelling on zbrush.

Day 32 - 18/6 Modeled here in my GF's house today. She likes to watch me study and I think it's cute when she tries to help me figure out the stuff I'm learning. Today I tried to study human anatomy building muscles with zsphere sketch. It was hard in the beginning but got easier once i started getting a feel of what the brushes can do.

Day 31 - 17/6 Got in touch with a new feature that builds volume from spheres. Looks interesting to build shapes like muscles or sci fi stuff.

Day 30 - 16/6 WOW, today I got crushed. Just got done with a new tutorial about another feature, which shifts modelling from organic to polygonal. And I was completely beaten. Couldn't get anything to work, completely lost. The feature is awesome though and I do feel I can get to understand it given I spend enough time trying to understand it. I'm feeling super exhausted, but excited to be working with this in the future.

Day 29 - 15/6 Sharkboy done! I'm super tired. This week has been very taxing and I've been struggling to find energy to fill out every single responsibility and things that need to be done. Really wishing a day could have like 30 hours. I'm wondering what I'm gonna focus on studying now.

Day 28 - 14/6 Tried some painting today. Very cool to be able to apply color variations generating a texture effect. I'm looking forward to playing with this feature in the future.

Day 27 - 13/6 I'm starting to miss gaming a bit, but trying to keep my focus. Today I worked on detailing the hammer shark, and got really frustrated because it was not seeming like the reference model. Every single time I start to get confused or frustrated I concentrate on my "one step at a time" mantra and it has been working to keep motivation up so far.

Day 26 - 12/6 Spent this day with my GF since It's Valentine day here in Brazil. So I tried something special with Zbrush today, as a gift for her. Got to toy around with some rendering properties and got a nice result, she was very happy with her little heart haha <3

Day 25 - 11/06 Spent the whole day going out with my gf and we had a cool dinner together. Tomorrow I'm gonna spend the day with her since it's Valentine here in Brazil. I got some time on Zbrush while she was at my side helping me get the shapes right while I showed her how I work on Zbrush. It's super cold here and I was modelling covered in sheets in bed lol

Day 24 - 10/6 Spent the night with my gf and got to work a little bit on my shark lessons. This time I blocked out more of the shapes and learned to mirror an object symmetrically to the other side of the mesh. That was super useful to position the eye correctly.

Day 23 - 9/6 Today I got started on my next character sculpt, a hammer shark. Tried to follow through the tutorial by doing the most accurate shapes I could, while paying attention to the flow of the mesh so I can learn how each one affects the overall form. It's very complex to find the right tool and its application to get a very specific deformation or effect, and I guess it only comes with practice.

Thanks, WorkInProgress! Your words of motivation and my commitment to always do at least a little everyday is what keeps me going. Day 22 - 8/6 A lot of work for very little visual results is starting to get frustrating. A total of 5 and a half hours sculpting a 20min head model tutorial is not very efficient use of my time, but I'm focusing on my "baby steps, everyday" mantra while trying to understand better what I'm doing to learn and practice smarter and quicker.

Day 21 - 7/6Ohhh boy, now we're getting to the hardcore stuff. Spent 3 HOURS sculpting what the guy from the tutorial did in 10 minutes and it was just somewhat close. I'm slowly learning how to build shape and even though it's hard as hell it's a good guidance on mastering the tools with a form in mind. Steady baby steps, every day.

Day 20 - 6/6 Now that I got the hang of Zbrush I started sculpting with my Wacom Tablet! It was wacky in the beginning but I was able to get the hang of it. it's ABSURDLY easier to sculpt with a tablet and I got started on a new string of tutorials on Zclassroom.

Day 19 - 5/6 Almost twenty days later, after so much hardships and feelings of being overwhelmed, not knowing really what to do or learn, I completed my first posed character. Super rough but i'm really happy that I could build a character so early. Now I'm gonna take a step back learning new tutorials so I can master every tool and technique to be able to build anything I want. Thanks for all your support so far.

Day18 - 4/6 Finished the model at last, now I just need to pose it. I'm not going to spend any extra time detailing it because i want to go into another fundamentals first. But this is it! My first T-pose cartoon! Hoping to learn a lot so the next ones are better and better.

Day 16 - 2/06 Finally started to edge out the character. Now I'm gonna start on the fun part, details. Very nice to start toying around with the design and expression. And dear god, hair is stupid hard.

Thanks, Cam. It all started with a casual conversation with you, on your site, with me not really sure at first if it was a bot or no haha. That was the talk I needed to finally motivate myself to push my life further. I guess sometimes all we need is someone to guide us and listen. Taking my time to turn away from a session of gaming then going to sleep made me feel good while I was playing, but when I left the PC and went to sleep I felt really bad with myself and my life. Today it's the opposite. I feel kinda bad while I'm practicing art, because I get my ass handed to me over and over seeing how much of a beginner I still am. But when I finally finish my daily session and post my progress here, turn down the PC and lay on bed to sleep, I feel really good. It's a real sense of achievment, like baby steps progressing into finally walking to maybe running one day. It all started with you and I am super grateful for you and all of your work on Game Quitters.

Day 15 - 1/06 Polished the model a little bit and started on color. I'm getting the hang of it, even though it takes a lot of time to get the results I want. It's good to feel the constant growth though, a major part of why I've always been gaming.

Day 14 - 31/05Today I am EXTREMELY excited. I managed to get in touch with a professional 3D character artist from here, Brazil, and he confirmed I'm on the right path. That really surprised me because I have been trying to speak with artists for some guidance and no one ever answered so i was losing hope. He was super polite and I was thirsty for guidance. I'm carrying on with my toon character lessons, this time I got started on clothing! Not as hard as I thought it would be. I'm starting to get the hang of this, and it feels reeeeeally good to get at least some resemblance of control and understanding of what I'm doing.

Day 13 - 30/05 Today was tough. I was really, really tired, but pushed myself over the edge to keep going strong on Zbrush everyday. I carried on with my cartoon character tutorial, this time treading on detailing on a higher resolution. Didn't make much visual progress but I learned a lot about brushed and their effect on surface and how to troubleshoot a brush combination to generate a sculpting effect I want.

Day 12 - 29/05 Went full force on the cartoon character modelling. I'm feeling overwhelmed again because this tutorial is kinda too advanced for my beginner knowledge. i'm trying to learn and practice it anyways.

Day 11 - 28/05 Today I started on a tutorial of modelling from a base skeleton of "Zspheres". Very complex but I'm slowly learning the workflows. Also spent some time helping my girlfriend with some designs for her new logo.

Sure thing, Cam! Day 10 - 27/05 Oh boy, what a day. Spent the morning on work, spent the evening with my gf visiting her client for her freelance gig (she's an interior designer and I helped her taking measures and pictures for a project), then we came to her home and we both got dinner, a movie together and I started working on today's 3d modelling practice session while she started working on her project. I feel like I don't even have time to game, and I also feel more connected to my gf since I'm not gaming, and she started to game less as well. Overall it's been a very nice first 10 days. Today I focused on practicing some of the brushes to get a feel of how they affect shapes while trying to build a simples form, a spoon.

Day 9 - 26/05 Today I started the second section of the Zbrush Classroom, only to learn I couldn't model anything because it utilizes stuff from a newer version. So I didnt get to make any modelling today but I browsed a lot of tutorials to go back to my glass cup. I'm gonna be getting Key Shot as well, a rendering software, to tackle my glass cup again.