Where to start? I don’t have a really good introduction for this week and what I worked on. I just worked on stuff. I also had to get a haircut and try to go to a free training event in relation to stuff for the day job. Which doesn’t excite me nearly as much as the upcoming ZBrush Summit from Pixologic. Still things got done.
I did go to the free training, though I waited and went in the afternoon, for a number of reasons. I can’t say that the sessions I attended were that exciting. I didn’t expect them too be. I don’t do very well sitting still and listening to lecture on computer stuff no matter how much I might want to know about the topic being discussed. It just doesn’t work out well for me. So that part of it was a bit of a bust. However, I did have a really enjoyable conversation with a couple of vendor reps from Baton Rouge.
In addition to that bit of socializing, I also got some work done. I managed to finish off the porch light for the Halloween House for the card. I finished the detail for the globe and added some thumb screws that are to hold the globe in the top cap part of the fixture. All of the pieces for the light started out as cylinders. From there I made tweaks and minor adjustments. Mostly I did things like round off the edges or scale an edge loop. I did attach and then weld two cylinders to make the fixture part that attaches to the wall. For the globe, or jar, I rounded off the bottom edge so that it wasn’t so sharp. I also added some edge loops so that I could scale a set in and make it look like there are ridges in the jar like you sometimes find on glass jars. If you remember last week, the base of the light was buried in the wall. Now it sits against the wall like it should and I scaled it down
so the proportions are better. This time, instead of attaching everything and then sorting things out when I go to add materials, I attached only what was going to be the same material and everything else I just grouped. When I scaled it, I selected the group.
Here are a couple of renders of the porch light as it is at the moment.
I finished up the second layer of black on the Gretsch Guitar painting. When I sat down to work on it I wasn’t really planning on finishing the layer up in that session. But I just sort of kept going and at one point I realized I was nearly there so I couldn’t stop. Next up will either be to start on the aged chrome or to work on the small area of binding at the bottom. Oh, dang. I just realized, I may need to change what I was intending to use as my background color for the painting so that you can still see the binding. Hmm…I may need to think about that. While I contemplate that, here are some In Progress pictures.
The Ovation Guitar got a fair bit of attention as well. I filled in that gap I created when I adjusted the shape and then I just kept going. I got all the way across and started back the other way. I finally stopped when I got to my fourth or fifth time of reaching a stopping point. I’m getting a bit excited about this one. Instead of doing the second layer of crimson I think I will make the second layer flame red and start to build up the quilted look some. I hope. First I’ll need to finish off this layer.
I also made a small update to the SusanG Productions website. I realized that while I had intended to add a link to this site and to the store, I hadn’t done it yet. So I made that quick update to the site. I still have one more small update I need to make right now. Then I need to start planning for a gallery sort of link for the paintings. I want people to be able to see them. So the gallery is a “to be added” feature.
As you can see, a bit of progress on several things this week. I’m hoping to get even further in the coming week so that when I hit the weekend of the ZBrush Summit I can sit back and enjoy the Live Stream of it.