Hi all, I am still a noob at blender and I am trying to make some Roman columns with Acanthus Leaf detail. Only thing is im really struggling to model one. Any one have a tutorial on how to model one of these please. I keep trying and trying, I leave it a day then go back to it and still with no joy. There has to be a simple way.
I’ve outlined one layer in red, and on top of that layer, there are other layers, outlined in blue. Get these added to your model first, using quad faces. Now within each of these layers, there are cuts going into the layer, or sections coming out above the layer that you need to add to your model. The image below is a technique for using the knife tool to get the geometry you need in your quad faces to make a depression or (moving it in the other direction) a raised bit.