3D WORKSHOP:
A quick little Whale
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Note: I actually made life more difficult by creating my Grease Pencil sketch in front I thought it would be fun to create a view, while of course quick little whale. Our whale isn't sketching a side view going to be overly realistic, but will of the whale. I suggive us some fun modeling practice. We are aiming to create a fairly clean gest drawing in side mesh without a lot of unneeded verti- view, then your sketch and views will match up without complicaces, and we are going to use the Grease Pencil to sketch out a very ba- tions. sic outline for reference. Step1. Okay, so I just drew a very basic outSo I have this idea for a cute little whale, but my sketching skills are so line of my little whale rusty as to be useless, and just jumping into Blender (1 & 2) and changed the color of my lines and getting to it will likely end in frustration. to red for better visiThis is where the grease pencil excels. It will allow bility. You'll notice, us to draw a very basic shape with just the importhat as of yet, I only tant details, for us to use as reference. have the body drawn. We will add side fins To open the Grease Pencil dialog box go to View>> and the tail fluke when the body is done. Grease Pencil. There are a few options we need for this exercise. Select: Make sure to turn off "Draw mode" when you are finished with your sketch. Use Grease Pencil: This lets us see our sketch/drawing Step2. Add a cube and subdivide smooth (W> Draw mode: This activates the Grease pencil (it Subdivide Smooth). toggles it on/off) From the front view, Sketch in 3D: This allows us to see our sketch delete half the cube. even when rotating view We will add a mirror modifier later. Note: Because everyone will end up with a somewhat different sketch, the following steps are some what general in nature and you may need to do some adjusting of the instructions to match your sketch.
Introduction
By Sandra Gilbert
A Quick Little Whale
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Issue 24 | Oct 2009 - "From Out of the deep"