Nothing to show off today, not because I skipped work or anything, amazingly I still have not missed a single day in these challenges. No, I spent a couple of hours working on my new sculpture. I am really, really looking forward to reaching a skill level where I can just bust something like that out, without having to go back and work and rework individual sections to try to get something that looks reasonable. As it is I’m only done with the first blocking phase of the sculpt, just getting the main shapes down with no real detail. But, it is good practice, and you have to make mistakes before you can really learn to avoid them.
I’d like to say that I’ll be able to show off my results tomorrow, but I honestly don’t think I’ll have it completed then either. Maybe, it looks like I may have a bit more time to work on it than I would normally. We’ll have to see.
As far as the other part of the challenge, the video tutorials and classes, I *may* have cheated just a bit. Since I’m still working on my sculpt I bypassed the usual class structure and watched one of their other tutorial videos, specifically one on how to model wings. It introduced some different techniques that I haven’t come across before, so I’m glad I did. I’m still going to count it, though, even if it isn’t directly in the course path.