And these blogs are coming out in reverse order so I'm guessing this is the 1st you're reading.. The writings gone off the bottom pics as well fmfl innit. So the trees just a colour test and the pic of the girl. I loaded up a pic of Barbara Palvin and drew over her. Doesn't look good anyway but when I was doing it I just felt like I was cheating myself. No sense of reward.

To be honest, I do worry that if I persist with this route I'm going to produce something crappy:/

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And here's a star coarse. Still need to suss how to animate whatever's attached to the spline.

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here's a better attempt. I'm finding YouTube tutorials to be helpful.

I've actually been enjoying using Cinema 4d though obviously I've far from scratched the surface with it yet. I think it's an neat bit of kit. Since it was taking an age cropping my assets on Photoshop, I thought I'd try something to simplify /speed up the process. So created a blade of grass in Photoshop and loaded it to Cinema 4D, copied and pasted, tadaaa. However I had to take the photo from that angle as I struggled keeping the grass on the same plain, it was scattered everywhere.

I've spent the majority of the week familiarising myself with Photoshop and Cinema 4D. Mostly cropping assets but trying to squeeze a bit play in as well. And here just free styling, the only advantage I'm finding with Photoshop (for this type of art) is the colours, they look sharp and you don't have to blend them etc.