You need to make annotations for every lesson you’re learning. The difference is when you’re dealing with something that is important in visual terms. For instance, let’s say the tutor starts teaching how to model a head with basic things like this:
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And in the end you get this:
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That’s a lot of stuff to do. And when you get home you probably won’t remember how to make it again in the same way. Considering that your learning curve depends on your practicing and dedication, the best thing to do is making things easier so you can learn faster.
For this kind of annotation, I don’t recommend writing. Sure you can type shortcuts you learn, some concepts and operations. But it will be impossible to type something like: “Start with a box. Now divide it with two edges in the horizontal. One of them is on the line of the eyes and the other (…)”
I take screenshoots from the beginning to the end. This operation won’t make me lose any important process when I get to model on my own. Sure it may vary from person to person, but that’s the way I do and it works for me. I recommend it if you’re having difficulties to model without a tutor on your side. And you can use this kind of technique in other lessons too, like rigging. In fact, I use it all the time. Except for writing theory.
And one thing that is important: take screenshoots with a software that automatically saves the images in a folder you specify. That way you don’t have to edit the images everytime. There are many free softwares that you can download to make it. Don’t worry about taking screenshots of a specific area. Take the entire screen because it’s faster and it’s just a reference for you.
Modeling ears isn’t too hard with good practice, but I think the hardest part is attaching them to the body keeping everything smooth.
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I still need to make some adjustments in the whole model. Here’s a quick render to show the character with the modeled ear:
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My newest cartoon character still unfinished. I don’t know when I’ll continue modeling it, because I need more practicing on ears and also learn how to make the hair.
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The introduction to character modeling on Azimut training school started only with Harley Quinn’s head. But now we saw how to model a (bald) character in cartoon style. It was a little more complicated and I did not like the final result. I’ll try to do it again, but not with the same drawing reference. By the way, it’s not my drawing.
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