Havent seen much from you lately, thought you were dead D:

1 month old Infant son with  Neomi ... will return more frequently when possible. For now updates are only possible when everyone is sleeping.

Congratulations!!

Thanks, were taking it one day at a time. Hopefully things can settle into a routine soon. The baby is doing well so far, allowing for a rare few hours of quiet every so often. Render time is feed and change time, and the computer keeps the room nice and warm.

The ball with a member,lovely.

With a what? This image is supposed to be SFW, only the color of the ball is reflecting off her glossy color of her bathing suit. Perhaps I should have selected more contrasting colors.

Oh crap,my bad. SORRY!

Nice! ^^

Radiant cuteness! Surprised you could draw this with a baby in your arms at 3AM!

Relative timezone, I did this at 6pm - 9pm with a feed and change in between during a test render. The baby is beginning to settle more, simply being nearby and able to see me while he's awake. But most often Sleeping as he's still only an month old infant.

I love how she blends in with the background so well despite it not being 3D.

I’ve not done much with 3D lately. Still working a lot of 10-hour days but the “model” I got, I play with. Learning how to shape things, moving vertices, face and edges along with othe things. Sometime soon i’ll Star it again but more serious. There’s some creases/ridges, like on the front of the neck, that are there.

I do have to ask, about the three bigger girls. Did you make just one base model and then modify them or is each character their own hand crafted model?

Almost all models were unique starts, each extruded as required from the default cube, following their original reference background images to guide the shape.

Sparks (Dark Elf) -> Sasha (Racoon) -> Lola (Roobat) were a progressive modification of Sparks original mesh. Reshaping and adding Geometry with sculpting for a significantly unique shape. Sam (Carret) was again a unique mesh started from a default cube. Though each follows a similar workflow, they have a similar body shape, though the edge flow of the mesh improves greatly.

Although similar in appearance, they are quite different from each other in many ways. https://www.furaffinity.net/view/18973442/

Reusing a mesh is kind of what I want to do. Most characters use a humanoid form, some are humans and others are humanoid with things like animal ears, tails, etc. Plus, a number of characters are of one species, like raccoons, zebras, and dogs, to name a few. I'd just need a male and female form. Theres other exotic creatures that would require their own models as they are a bit complex.

This is one guy whose tutorial, https://youtu.be/rlhMyNdRx1Q , I watched and got this, https://www.furaffinity.net/view/26671619/ It's more of a practice thing that I poke at to see what happens. One thing is that he said he doesn't like to use the mirror modifier and in some ways, I can see why he doesn't use it often. There's a few errors. Look at the throat area, you see there's like a fold/crease.

I'm understanding how it all works. I see there's so many ways to model but i want to do it the fastest but best way.

In edit mode switch to edge editing, or face editing and look for lines there that connect in an unusual way.. you can select that edge and delete it.

Ctrl-tab. Then select 1 for vertex, 2 for edge or 3 for face editing.

For symmetrical objects I always use the mirror modifier.. you can cross the centerline if you temporarily disable the clipping for spots that press together.

Yeah, I did that with another problem on the neck. It had like a ring around it and I found the vertices/edges and got rid of that. The vertical edge, which you can see, I must've had something selected and moved them.

I had to disable the clipping because there were edges, that i selected but couldn't move but they weren't near the center. The joys of modeling.

My birthday is in late April and it's one of two months where I take an "art vacation" except the last week where I do a birthday pic for myself. This year, I'll still do the birthday pic but most of April I intend to delve into Blender and try and get a model done.

If anything, I should do this tall, skinny alien character since the design is really simple, https://www.furaffinity.net/view/16879898/ She'd probably be the best one to do a full model of.

Yes, with mirror and clipping enabled some of the vertexes will get pinned at 0 and unable to move them. In Edit mode, Press 'N' to bring up the properties panel, and then manually transform the vertex XYZ location away by .02 or some small amount to break them free again..

Sometimes its just as well to select and delete the vertexes that get all mushed up on the mirror axis, Then extrude new ones back towards the center line, and merge them as needed (CTRL-M)

I did at least the vertex transformation and then just moved them after turning off clipping. Seemed to do the trick.

I did manage to make the arms but they're not perfect. I may just start a new model from scratch since there's probably too many things messed up. Still this practice model was helpful in learning.

Some vertexes can get stuck together, so occasionally in edit mode.. CTRL-A to select all vertexes, Then SpaceBar to search for the "Remove Doubles" function to clean them up.

I did that and there were some slight changes. But I still see this “folding” effect on the neck and other problems with the shoulders.

It’d probably be best to start a fresh one and hope I do better.

If you have a mesh that's giving you troubles, I can take a look, but yes. Often starting again is a good option as it's also good practicr. With the basics.

I did want to do it again as the last few weeks I haven't done much with it and thus kind of lost some of what I learned.

I'll send ya a note with said model.

its actually a good practice to use an existing base mesh with good mesh flow.. sculpt it into the required shape.. In my case I do it the hard way each time to learn as much as possible.

Expression of contentment makes this really pop.

God for a second there, I thought you made a SecondLife avatar here, I was like :Q___

It could be done, I would just need to create or find a compatible rig, then simply clean up the models a bit more.