Adventures in 3D modeling: Lego Minifig

After 10+ hours of fighting with Maya (the buggiest program on the planet).  I finally finished modeling my lego mini fig.  *Sigh* now for the rendering.

This weekend's project is in Maya.  I am still extremely new to maya, but I am learning slowly. This is the start of a lego minifig.  It has been a fun project so far :) Here is the progress!

So this weekend I have been playing with watercolor.   It has been FOREVER since I painted with watercolors, and I was a little nervous when I started, but after I started I remembered exactly why I love them.  With water colors you just have to go with the flow, and let things happen sometimes.  One thing that I have always loved are watercolor triads.  Old masters is my favorite, it consists of paynes gray, yellow ochre, and burnt sienna.  LOVE IT! Anyways, here is what I have done so far, it is still a work in progress.  I need to detail it, and build up some of the colors (especially in the skin area).  But, here it is so far.

                  

Here is a closer view of the face and wings.

As far as daily inspiration I found an awesome watercolor artist this week, Paul Bonner.  The way that he paints is amazing! I am going to have to figure out how he gets so much depth and detail into his work.  So awesome. Here is a link to his  website.  Paul Bonner does a tutorial on here  it is pretty interesting.  I am definitely going to have to try some of his techniques.

Here is what I have been working on lately :) I was going for a steam-punky angel.  The idea was that she wanted to fly, so she made herself some wings.