@Ghlighte that's impressive honestly. I don't think i'll ever get into sculpting since i don't have a tablet

@hideki it's a lot easier than it looks (at least easier than I thought), but then again, surface defects are not visible with matcap shading, and mastering it will take a long time.
As for the tablet, I agree that it is a must for sculpting. I'm using an old Wacom One Medium, and it is just enough for everything I do. I heard that newer Huion ones are also good now.

@Ghlighte @hideki do you sketch your concepts first?

@fluffy @hideki kind of, but there is nothing from the concept left in the model currently

@Ghlighte @hideki I wanna learn how to come up with cool designs for things. How do I do it? It's hard to communicate exactly what I mean... I have some functional 3d printed stuff but it just looks blocky. I wanna make it look /good/. What even is this called? How do I search for it? Where can I learn

@fluffy @Ghlighte @hideki back in the days there was eatpoo.com/conceptart.org, iirc they closed down/changed and moved on?
theres cgtalk/cgsociety.org now and some others.

@fluffy @Ghlighte @hideki if you just want to doodle there's meshmixer

@eee @Ghlighte @hideki i want to, uh, make concept art for computer keyboards

@fluffy @Ghlighte @hideki lmao it all died gofundme.com/f/i-need-your-help-with-conceptart

RIP

@fluffy @Ghlighte @hideki this was way before intel agencies herded people into 'web 2.0'
opengameart.org/forumtopic/does-anybody-remember-conceptartorg

what a shame

@Ghlighte @fluffy @hideki there ya go crimsondaggers.com/forum/index.php

@eee @Ghlighte @hideki > the real reason conceptart failed was politics. Also the owner tried to cash in on the website by creating the company massive black and making several parts of the site paid. there was a ton of friction between the users of concept art and the company massive black Big names that visited the site began to leave because the site no longer was the site it used to be

@fluffy @Ghlighte @hideki I feel so old now, when i was a wee lil lad i spent my days browsing ca, it was the best

@eee @Ghlighte @hideki do you still do concept art

@fluffy @Ghlighte @hideki i can draw, yeah
not doing it anymore, so it's all chickenscratch. back in ye olden days we had oekaki/warpaint, a pretty good piece of software that let multiple people share a canvas and doodle.
the collapse happened in the 00s.

@eee @Ghlighte @hideki was it like https://cryptpad.fr/whiteboard/

@fluffy @Ghlighte @hideki nah we had a stand alone program, all of this is gone in the rain

fuck facebook and fuck twitter, this shit destroyed so much

@eee @Ghlighte @hideki they got rich as hell doing it

@fluffy @Ghlighte @hideki web.archive.org/web/20070520154249/http://www.warpaint.se/

@fluffy @Ghlighte @hideki lmao i'm an old piece of shit, this should still work. all you need is to find like minded people now

@eee @Ghlighte @fluffy @hideki I'm so old I rode a dinosaur to school, uphill both ways

@fluffy @hideki that's hard to say. I don't think design courses work, at least not in the sense that they teach you to design stuff you want immediately. The best bet would be practice - you sketch several concepts, look at them the next day, draw again, a little bit better, look at improved concepts the next day, until the result is good enough. Repeat for several months (or years), and you'll gradually get better at design, or drawing, or modeling, or whatever you want.

For me personally, a good exercise to get better at drawing was drawing insects from photos.