Learning Blender

I know I've ranted about this before, but the available clothing options for 3D models, especially female models, are horrible. (Unless you're making images of strippers — then they're fantastic!)

The obvious solution — complain on the internet — has thus far failed to yield results. So my backup plan is to make clothing myself, because again, I have the self-confidence of a mediocre white man, so why wouldn't I be able to do this difficult thing that I have no training in?

There are expensive programs that make virtual clothing creation easier, but I'm cheap. And Blender is free! Obviously, it's time to learn Blender.

Since Blender has a pretty steep learning curve, this time I decided not to go with my usual "poke at menus until I figure out how to do the thing" method of learning new software. Instead, I am working through this tutorial on YouTube. At the end of the series I will have created an iced donut.

So far, I've learned the basics on moving around in Blender and then modifying a torus so that the end donut isn't so symmetric that it looks fake.

At the end of two lessons, I have this lumpy torus.

I think it's going rather well. Maybe I can dress my characters in baked goods...