It is time for the ZBrush Summit. It starts on Friday and I’ve taken the day off from the day job so that I can get some things done before I camp in front of my computer all weekend to watch the live stream. I’m excited about it. There has been a lot of great information come out of the last two Summits and looking at the schedule for this year, I expect there will be even more great information from this one. Before it starts though, I have to get some things done, like the chores and a bit more art work.
I got a good bit of work done on the Ovation Guitar painting this week and even got back around to working on the Halloween House for the Halloween Card. I didn’t get any more work done on the Gretsch painting though. And those aren’t the only things I need to work on. Besides art projects, I’m still dealing with that shower that needs new grout, and now has a deadline. That means that I’ll need to stay on top of things a bit.
Yes. I worked on the Ovation painting. I finished up the first layer of the crimson. It was a little like working on the Gretsch. I was working on it and just kept going and then before I knew it I was almost done with the layer. I finished up that layer the next night and then couldn’t wait to see what was going to happen when I added the flame red. So I had to start on it. I was really happy with the way it looked and I would have worked on it more that night except that it was late and my hand was starting to cramp. So I worked on it the next night. And then the night after that. Here are some pictures of the painting from this week.
I’m a bit funny when it comes to working on some of the 3D projects. When I first started working on them I would work on a project even if I only had 20 minutes at a time. Maybe because I had a lot of fairly basic things I needed to model for the scenes. Though all those bows for last year’s holiday card, weren’t what I’d call basic. Still, I find that I’m not quite as good right now at sitting down for those short sessions on the computer which is silly because if I would, I would be even closer to finishing the Halloween card than I am. I am closer though. I got one more component modeled to completion and another started. I made a cauldron to put candy in and I started on the model for the candy. I used cylinders as the base shape for both. And then I used a torus for the handles for the cauldron. To get the twist for the candy wrapper I wanted to use the soft selection so that I could select one
edge loop and rotate it and then the effect would be gradual. But I couldn’t get it to work so I just used the rotate tool and rotated the edge loops individually. That made a mess of the end cap sections and I had to straighten those out so that the faces won’t be all mangled when I apply a material to it. Here are a couple of screen renders of the progress.
As always, I have plenty more work to do. I’ve got to finish the other side of the candy and I have a couple more items to model before I start adding materials. From there I’ll need lights, and I think this one is going to require the use of a camera to get the right angle. I am excited to get more of the Ovation painting done. It’s coming along really nice. There is also the Gretsch to get back to, I think I’m ready to start adding some of the detail to that one. Let’s see how much I get done before the ZBrush Summit takes over my computer this weekend.