Rendering has always been a struggle for me so it was really great to see how Dave works and get insight into his process!

My First attempt at rendering (note: not one of the descriptions listed in this course. just a character for my DnD campaign)

My First attempt at rendering (note: not one of the descriptions listed in this course. just a character for my DnD campaign)

THAN YOU MR.Dreco I‘m from China，your lessons is so valuable！I was drawing Sam, but it seems I went a bit off-topic...

that was SUPER FUN!

Not super happy with this, should have spent more time on the base, feels abit muddy and anatomy is a bit weird.

Here is my finished Entity. Definitely a challenge to render things without any reference. A lot of alterations along the way but managed to make my art director somewhat pleased with the end result. On to the next one!

I’ve been struggling with some personal issues so I had to cut back on the details but I still wanted to be able to post something so I did do some little details along with my assignment. I did Maren Asando.

I'm waaay late on this. Just came back noodeling with stuff a lot. Like Dave said, it was worth it to improve though. So happy with the progress. I'll try to get the next one in on time!

Hey all! So Dave has recorded the critique for this assignment and my goal is to finish the edit sometime between Fri-Mon! There were so many good submissions in this assignment and I think this critique will have some valuable insights!

Hey everyone! I started this course a few days ago and didn't think I'd make it in time to submit a final render. I should've picked one of the given options... but for whatever reason I went with doing a blanket merchant :S my bad. Enjoy my pelican who puts items in his beak!

hi all! attached below is my interpretation of maren asando. i leaned more into the archaeology aspect of her character, but made sure to include some literary motifs. i think i'll benefit from keeping the bullet points from the brief around at all stages of the design alongside the required references. had a lot of fun with this assignment; happy enough with my work, but can't help feeling like i'm hitting a ceiling of some kind. hope i didn't miss the cutoff for the feedback by too much

Here is my submission for The Entity. This changed a lot from the thumbnail and I feel I kind got carried away with stuff that moved it away from the original character brief. I was thinking of biblically accurate angels that are actually more terrifying looking, along with the armored archangel image as well. I really lost steam when the rendering started. It felt like going from 0 to 10 and I became rapidly overwhelmed, both by my expectations and by the complexity of materials, skin, wings, etc. to try and get right. I want to keep working on this, but I would greatly appreciate any and all feedback you have for me, Dave and fellow classmates. The stuff posted here has been amazing! You all rock!

Hi, I came back to this assignment after a month, so I changed the character a bit from the thumbnail versions (she has a lot of belts now). I have never rendered this much, and I can feel my limits, so back to studying, I guess.

Here is my submission for this assignment of Maren Asando! I didn't have enough time to render it properly, but I ran out of time! Thank you Dave so much for the lessons; I'm learning a lot and improving so quickly <3

I still need to do quite a bit of rendering, but I don't want to miss out the feedback ^^

My submission. Was not sure how much time was left so didn't fully render it as much as i would have liked to. But am happy overall

Here we go! My submission for Maren Asando. At the beginning I felt like I choose the wrong thumbnail, but day after day I got attached! Hope someone like her as I do now!

My submission on Entity! I am facing some difficulty when I reach the detailed rendering stage. I tend to feel mentally exhausted and lose energy during rendering, and I am not sure whether this come from issues in my rendering workflow or from gaps in my painting skills. Rendering feels very time consuming and I notice my motivation drops at the stage. I'd really appreciate your guidance on how I can improve this, and I am genuinely looking forward to the critique. Thank you Dave!

My render with a bit of progress since i have been catching up to the course this past week. I would have liked to take the render a bit further but was scared to miss the deadline. I decided to rather get a feedback and work on it some more afterwards. Thank you btw for this amazing course!! I have learned a lot already and cant wait to takle one of the other character assignments just for fun.