Kara WIP

Hi Everyone. This is my first post here.

I am following the Kara Training Series from Blendercookie. However I do deviate a bit by using my own drawings as a base. This is my first big Blender project.

Here the results of my work so far. I have finished the base mesh and I am now at the sculpting stage. It took me approx 2 weeks to get this far.


The skirt does look a bit plain, but it is a Tanzanian Kanga, so it should have some nice colorful texturing at the end.


Some details of the head. Also still a work in progress.

Obviously it is not finished, and I have still a lot of work to do. I just gave is some basic colors and lighting for now.

Hope you like it.

It looks excellent so far, but personally I would add another edge loop right where that quad on the upper cheek area is showing a bit of a diagonal shadow between the upper left to the lower right vertices. It doesn’t seem to show up in the subsurfaced version, so, probably not a big deal.

Thanks Modron, I will check that when I am back home. I probably sculpted it away on the left head picture, but the base mesh has to be good too.

I did some work on the hands. Let me know what you think.


The inside with some sculpting.


The other side. I am not sure about the nails yet. Some work to do there I think.

looks like pretty good hand…could be slightly fuller at the base of the fingers though.

Great start!
I would advise though to use photo references instead of drawings when studying anatomy … and for hands and feet and such you can always study your own …

Thanks all.

@Modron : You where right, I did adjust it a bit and it looks better now. You grow blind for that kind of details when you look to much at it, it seems.

@dOMINUS : Thanks for the advise. It does indeed help, looking more at the reference images. However I think my anatomy would look a bit strange on her. :slight_smile:

I am working on the feet and clothes now, so hopefully the sculpting will be done soon. I will post some pictures then.

I like it, Has sort of sharp features, maybe that’s how you wanted it though…? Looks good man!

Hey all.

I think I finished the sculpting on the body. Now on to the clothings.

I colored part of the kanga to check for faces coming through the top layer, when I found out the random chosen color looked good. So I did assign it to some faces to give it a nicer look. It still has to be sculpted though. I probably will use this color in the texturing too, because I like it.

@Novaslayer Thanks, I am glad you like it. It is indeed supposed to be a bit stylized. I try to keep as close as possible to my initial 2D drawing. And I can not draw very realistic. :wink: