As an artist, I’m more interested in having a nice, detailed mesh rather than anything else, so I would appresiated that all comments /suggestions are towards the mesh / modelling; and not the lighting, composition, colours and so on. If you feel you have to though, you may.
I intend to add some flowery designs around the side & center, candle holders as well as improving the candles themselfs (hopfully to resemble the more classic spiral-ribbed birthday candles you get).
I posted this ealier than I planned, as the candle part was alot harder than i expected in terms of getting a nice spiral so any suggestion on how to do that part would be greatly appresiated.
The modeling looks great! Especially the decorations around the edge. Those are quite nice. I don’t have any suggestions on how to spiral something but there’s a tut below on how to make a drill bit. He uses a procedure to spiral that, maybe you can apply it to your candles.
Personally, I would leave the model as is and just have the texture be a two-color spiral and map it to color and a b+w version to nor.
