I was relying way too much on the lighting to control the colours in my scene. Here's a new iteration. Pushing the colours in texturing atm, still playing with scene composition. Threw in an older version of the rat @Torch made. Him and I gotta decide on a placement for this little dude. Was going to stick him in the tunnel earlier, but he'll be too far away to see much detail, wouldn't want to hide such a cool character. I got rid of the stairs on the left because they were just contributing to the noise in the scene. Same with a bunch of the buildings. Replaced the texture for the sidewalk, since it was just so noisy before.
Hiya! Thanks everyone for your comments. Here's more progress on the gladiator. I've finally begun the texturing stage and set up a Marmoset scene to test my progresses. Planning to keep working on his texture for the next few days. Hope you like it!
Wow! You guys are amazing, and make me itch to do more real woodwork.
Currently living in an apartment with no space, so in the meantime I'm mostly carving spoons, spatulas, and little butter-knives out of some greenwood I got from a fallen tree in the woods nearby. Fun way to play with shapes, as you can see; quite a few of these just aren't practical (heck, some aren't pretty either). Fun to carve though.
All the flatish shapes are made using only a sloyd knife. The spoons were made using a hatchet, a sloyd knife, and a spoon knife. Long way to go, but I enjoy it! The pale ones I just carved yesterday, so still have to do a final pass and coat them (I slather them in propolis extract if I want to darken them, which is a weird trick I started a while back, then cover them in linseed oil.)
I realize the wood background isn't great for seeing the darker ones, but, well, hindsight and all that.
And a shot to show off a lil spoon I think has a lot of character:
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