"Animal Businessman" - (SJ21.30)
In 2021 I participated SculptJanuary to force myself to practice sculpting thoroughly.
I was lucky that nothing got in my way that month, so I was able to sculpt all 31 topics. Most in January, the last in early February...
"Animal Businessman" was the topic of SculptJanuary 2021 Day 30.
I chose a bull, which I thought was suitable as a businessman. I didn't want to take it to the extreme
and portray a ruthless, ambitious buffalo, no, I chose a neat, mundane businessman.
I had already sculpted cattle for Day 15 "Heavy Horns". So I didn't want to start all over again
from a Cube. That cow in the background seemed very suitable to me...
...I imported it into a new blend file. THIS was a pleasant starting point :-)
I gave the bull a more confident, determined look through a firm frown in the brow
and I sculpted a human haircut on top of the cow's head.
In the meantime I was also looking for suitable color spots for the cowhide.
I now cut the bull in half just below the head...
...and I tilted the body into a sitting position...
...I lengthened the neck into a more human neck...
In my Day 15 project I forgot to give ears to my cows - the heavy horns distracted me :-)
So now I duplicated a horn...
...and I sculpted it into an ear shape...
...that I developed further along the way to what seemed to me an acceptable cow's ear.
The ear also had to get a cowhide color instead of the original horn color.
Then I've added a Cube and started modeling it...
...in the shape of a tie...
...and from a Circle...
... I extruded the collar of a shirt.
...Okay, now the sculpting could continue...
...first the tie...
...then the collar - (I made the cow's head invisible to be able to handle everything well)
The ears remained detached from the head. I tried to weld them on, but then I started having problems with
the procedural color distribution. So I left them separate. I didn't have time to look for it any longer...
Then I added a Torus to my project...
...that was the basis for the glasses I modeled now. This was the first time I created glasses.
It wasn't very easy, but I liked the result.
...I tried it out with darker hair because I assumed it would look more masculine, but the sharp hairline bothered me...
...and in the end I stayed with blonde.
This was the final of Day 30.