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artgajez-reblogs replied to your photo “Excuse how silly it still looks lol, but I’m still working on the...”

OMG you did the thing! it looks amazing!!

O shit, what’s up dude, I haven’t been on FB so much in a while but let me tell you I’ve seen some of your 3D work and it’s so incredible!! You picked that up lightning fast!! Making full characters too with like hair and clothes lol, m(-_-)m Dude you, your work and your dedication inspire me!!

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Yo if you're feeling a Karkat right now, as an animation student I can't tell you how badly I want to animate him.

Feeling??... Rigging??

I was thinking of rigging it, yeah! I want to use this model to practice/learn rigging, especially the face!

But there’s a lot of things to note here!The rig will probably come out super basic/simple/limited! [I’ve never rigged a face and so I was planning on learning by using this model]

Also I’m making this using Blender and I don’t really know how to make models available to use on different software;;

Oh and, this model has no legs! It’s only from the end of the sweater and up! xD

But yeah once I finish it I’d be more than happy to share it! :D

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How are you making the hair? I've somehow avoided doing that when modeling characters so far but I'd love to know how you did yours -a 3D student

I completely get you when it comes to avoiding doing the hair! I’ve only tried doing hair like... 5 timees?? and two of those have been with characters that don’t have “real hair“ [for example a fairy like girl that has mushroom hair], and the others have stayed unfinished.But ANYWAY I’m using Blender and I’m following this tutorial:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t2XjdzzWCqI

So it’s... “Polygon Hair“? I think it’s how I’ve seen people call it.I dunno if Hair cards/planes might be more appropriate, or if sculpting it in one single piece might be much more efficient, but I wanted to try this way.I’m using a bunch of layers, some are symmetrical, others asymmetrical.The reason for using many layers is because it looks like an absolute mess at one point, difficult to figure things out , so in order to see what it looks like, and to avoid getting confused with the curves I’m using I just make a new hair chunk and separate it from the rest of the hair in edit mode [by pressing P]:

I first did a quick “mockup”? like with sculpting, super rough just to try and figure out how I wanted to make the hair [Why Karkat... why must you have such weird hair... I looked up a bunch of references, I realized my own drawings of Karkat I’ve made before don’t make much sense either lol]

And finally, the symmetrical parts are the sides, because I thought It’d look alright to have that silhouette. And the asymmetrical parts are the bangs and the top back:

I hope something in here helps! I could share the .blend file too, I’d just have to figure out where to upload it.

I wish you the best of luck with your 3D journey! May you finish a bunch of characters with awesome, efficient hair!

[Please note: I’m also trying to learn and figure things out, I’m an absolute beginner when it comes to 3D stuff so take any of my advice with a whole cup of salt!]

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what a darling!!! it might be a bit expensive in the future though, because what makes their ears fold, affects their joints when they get older i think. but all scottish folds have variable degrees of painful degenerative joint disease :(

That’s really scary and sad to know... but at least it won’t take me by surprise now. Sadly I don’t know about the kitten’s parents [since it apparently affects the degree whether both parents had those types of ears or not], but I hope it’ll happen later in life and to a manageable degree. I don’t want him to suffer...

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Hi, I love your homestuck selfies! What do you do to get one done?

Hello! Thank you I’m glad you liked them!!

However those HS Selfies were done 5 years ago!

Also tbh the actual reason I stopped making them in the first place is that some douchebag took the chance to send gore because I had pic submissions open for them... so ngl they bring me a shitty memory too. I’m really glad people are enjoying them tough, ty.

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I made a fantroll once, he hated everyone.

Sounds like he’s ready for life in Alternia

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hi! sorry for the ask but are your conmissions open? and do you do gw2 gold commissions? i looked around some but on mobile its harder to find current info. anyway love your work! will continue to admire your art. <3

Hello! Thank you so much for your kind words and for your interest on commissions! ;v;

They are not open at the moment [I’m taking a little break bc they can be very stressful one after the other]but yes I did some gw2 gold commissions! However I did not announce those here, they are on the forums and if I open them again I’ll probably update that thread instead of posting about it here? [as I’ve got a few messages on the forums from people who are still interested in them]

https://en-forum.guildwars2.com/discussion/20119/gold-commissions-offering-sketch-busts

Ah but I’m not sure when they’ll be open again, and I’m more likely to open regular commissions before then!

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Honestly Muramasa does not get enough love. Thank you for the Momohime.

Thank @mimicteixeira for requesting the drawing, I didn’t know of this game’s existence before then :0

[She was a lot of fun to draw though, she’s super cute, I’m glad you liked seeing it!]