Next round of Gnomon yay!

So its the Gnomon Spring term yay! I am being a bit more ambitious for this term and taking both Character Modeling and Sculpting with Kevin Hudson and Environment Modeling and Sculpting with Devon Fay.  The first lessons were really fun, I got to meet my new peers and tutors and learn a little about all their backgrounds.
I am really looking forward to getting stuck into these two classes! both syllabuses look great and since they are not introduction courses we spend the last few weeks working on a single piece which will help my portfolio a lot :)

So week 1 homework for Character Modeling and Sculpting is to build a quick character using a polygon workflow.  Kevin built a stylized version of the monkey from Space Ghost during the tutorial from a cool reference so we will be using the same workflow to build our own characters.  I am attempting to build a chibi style version of Mikasa from Attack on Titan.  I recently binge watched the entire first season on Netflix while doing homework from last term and thought it was amazing!  I really like the ODM gear the characters use so obviously jumped at the first excuse to model it.

image taken from Pintrest (not my own work)

We also have to piece together some reference for our final project.  I scoured Pintrest for a few hours and I think I have settled on a cool looking Pirate character.  I will get some feedback next week as to whether I should proceed with this character or not.

Week 1 homework for Environment Modeling and Sculpting is to kitbash reference for a lamp prop and then model it.  The concept of kitbashing reference together is really cool and not something I had done before.  Overall back in my 1 model a day training I got quite experienced at modeling quick props from reference but taking multiple parts you like and modeling something unique should be a lot of fun.  I'm going with a Steampunk style lamp, already have quite a bit of reference from this morning and its gonna look awesome!