What would be the best way to model this chair with curved surfaces?
Hello everyone. This is the chair I'm talking about: 
I spent hours googling, searching and trying out some techniques to make it but it doesn't look right. This is what I have so far:
I spent hours googling, searching and trying out some techniques to make it but it doesn't look right. This is what I have so far:
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Easiest way would be:
-start with a plane with only a few subdivisions, build the base shape without holes or "frame"
-when you got the basic shape, subdivide once and delete the holes
-then extend the borders to the back to achieve the "bent" effect around the edge
-apply thickness to the model
Used Modo and modified "flat" shape with and move/scale tool with falloffs. Finally learning to use falloffs, damn powerfull tools
Then bend it and tweaking, again move/scale tool with falloffs.
There are ugly topology around holes, but could be fixed. ( I think it should be done before bending)
// now I have chair to my ship models deck
I know it's bad but I'm still new to this stuff. Finally finished it after breaking my head so much yesterday.
Of course not! Here is chair 1:
I don't know why these chairs are taking me so long to make. I took 4 hours to make this one. Probably because I keep running into so much problems.
I probably should have modeled the rectangle between the chair legs as seperate objects. I only made them one time, then copy pasted them though.
Thanks for the advice. I'll try breaking it down into pieces more often. By first chair, do you mean the first one I posted or the one with the animals?
Aside from breaking the mesh up as suggested, I'd like to chime in and say to keep a close eye on the reference images when you're modeling something from them. Particularly the placement of the screws on the legs (both their height and which side of the legs they're found on), and the length of the back legs (which appear to be made up of two parts on yours).