October ProgBlog #1: hairy frustrations

haaaaaaaaaaaaair

Now that I've got a hang of it, this bit is going pretty well and relatively quickly (and is also somewhat meditative at best and mind numbingly, agonisingly tedious at worst).

I feel like this is probably a bit overkill but it is mostly working. The first few times I was doing test renders I couldn't work out why the lighting was so weird and eventually cottoned on to the hairs being too thick. Once that was fixed it looked a lot better but this other problem that I have persisted and that's a flare I don't fully understand happening at some point in the render.

My guides look like

and with everything turned on it looks like

and then I render and for whatever reason the hairs just want to flare out.

There's probably a checkbox or something somewhere but I can't find it.

It's annoying me a lot but on the bright side at least with even a partially animated comic I can probably fix most of it in post if it doesn't fix itself in the meantime.

sketchies

In very vaguely related news I managed to somewhat fix up a few life and scheduling dramas including a very long standing sleep issue (being that I wouldn't because ain't nobody got time for that, the weirdly easy "hack" was just to write on my calendar that I needed to read at 10pm which required going to bed as that's where I read, and if I run overtime I just use the reading time and still manage to go to bed not too late) and I managed to convince myself to start drawing in this cute little book I got ages ago.

I bought one for myself and one for 17yo, there was this not-very-epic battle about who should get which as both of us wanted the trisquel one but I ended up with it as I'd bought them

Given the purpose of this particular exercise they're not worth their own art posts so I'll probably keep tacking a selection of them onto the ends of the progblogs just for something different.

15yo was watching me draw the last one and good-naturedly giving me a hard time for having a bad memory because it didn't occur to him that I don't look at his violin as often as he does.

_{he offset it by saying he had a lot of admiration for people who could just draw things as he struggles}

If nothing else it will provide enough "filler" that I'll feel motivated to post anyway on the days where I just don't because I don't feel like enough prog has been made (or in some cases where none has been made because things keep overrunning my work times).

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