Working on a blue-lipped sea krait

When do you call it quits on weight painting. There's always something that can be fixed more 😭

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After 8 months I've returned from the mines of Coloso.

Now to get back to the usual texture painting and rigging.

I made my first artstation post!! 🎉

www.artstation.com/artwork/qJ65BP

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For my NPR brethren
#b3d #npr #toonshading

I've begun prepping my latest piece for cel-shading!

It's fully rigged, so once I paint the lines on the body I'll consider it done (unless I get distracted animating frow lines). Hopefully I can make it my first upload to artstation!! I'm so excited

I can't wait to import this character to Unity. ...After I detangle the mess that is my material and texture organization.

How bad can fixing my UVs be?
🪦

Sculpting hair is so zen, is it anyone else's favorite part?

I promise I'll paint the part in later. 🐇

The thumb's wrong.
Who do thumbs exist.
I hate them.

I'm a lot happier with my facial topology this time. I think the normal shadows should be pretty good. I've been studying the topology of Cheme Leon on Artstation.

Might be worth adjusting the ovals I have for the rembrandt triangles a bit more though. The lip density is also definitely too dense

Well.
I've done literally everything I can without sculpting the hands and retopology. My procrastination has failed me, and it is now time for suffering

I'm certainly going to regret having not sculpted the wrists earlier 🫡

me: "Okay, my goal for the weekend is to draw boxes in perspective"

*30 minutes later

"Let's actually start a new sculpt first"

*A day later

"Well that went alright, now I need to retopo this new sculpt"

*A second new sculpt was started instead

Procrastinationnnnnnn

When your own weaknesses in make-up are evident in the characters you sculpt.

Straying lipstick? Check
five o'clock shadow due to poor foundation blending? Check
Woogly eyeshadow? Oh certainly a check

#b3d

Made some polish updates:
-Diversified the color values
-Made a new dress
-Redid the lines along the nose
-Redid the facial make-up
-Hand painted lines in the hair

The to-dos are unchanged:
-Implement inverted hull
-Texture paint a couple lines of musculature
-Paint three sets of cel textures

Painted my normal shadows, attached is a before with standard rendering, and a lazy cell shaded pass with the custom normals

To do list:
-Implement inverted hull to add an outline
-Texture paint a couple lines of musculature
-Paint standard, shadowed, and highlighted textures
-Do a detail pass

Okay!
Did another pass on the texture painting and finished up the sculpting.

Next steps:
-Tweak the eyebrows
-Bake the hair strands
-Normal painting

Did the first pass on texturing my latest piece. The ordered to-do list includes:
-Add poly hair
-Make lower lashes
-Consider sculpting some eyeliner
-Sculpt the mask
-Sculpt the wings
-Paint the shadows for cell-shading

"Phew, after eight hours working on clean topology, now let's make some cuts to support NPR normal-editing for shadows"

My topologyyyyy 😭