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The Road to 3D Grooming. My Story. Part 16 - 2018 - Hair Grooming/Lookdev for Jessika

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"She walks in beauty..." - how does that line go? =) Yes, it's still 2018. It feels like I got stuck there, but no. I was just making a lot of stuff =) Anyway, I got tired of Camilla and decided to create a new doll. And this time not a mannequin, but a full character, head to toe, with everything that comes with it. I already had some experience from the Harley Quinn I made back in 2016. I haven't shown her in this story, but you can find her on ArtStation in the History category =) I wanted to make a girl who could have different hairstyles. Sort of an avatar , as people like to say these days. Yep, we were building metaverses years ago, and the world started talking about them much later =) Why Jessika Her name is Jessika. Why? I just like the name. And once upon a time I was a huge Jessica Alba fan: posters on every wall, folders full of photos and all that =) The face, though, didn't turn out the way I wanted, no matter how hard I tried. The face and the c...

The Road to 3D Grooming. My Story. Part 15 - 2018 - Grooming for Joseph #3. Cornrows and Beard

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Continuing the story =) Who's this guy? - you might ask. Come on, don't you recognize him? It's the same Joseph who hangs out with Camilla from the previous episodes. No, not her brother. Her boyfriend. He's just changed a bit. Okay, he's bulked up a bit =) Harder than last time In the same year, 2018, I kept experimenting with hairstyles. The last episode was about my first braids, and I wanted to go further. Not just a couple of braids, but a really complex hairstyle: lots of thin cornrows lying tight along the scalp, plus shaved sides. I also really wanted to learn how to make proper beards. Last time I was just figuring out how a beard works, and this time I decided to do it right. Why not? Joseph wanted to look more stylish =) To be honest, it was quite a challenge. This hairstyle really wore me out. But I'm glad I didn't give up and finished it. How the cornrows were drawn The trickiest part was the cornrows themselves. There was no automatic way to ma...

The Road to 3D Grooming. My Story. Part 14 - 2018 - Hair Grooming/Lookdev for Joseph #2

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Remember how in the last episode I promised to show you Joseph's second hairstyle? I keep my word =) But first, a confession. Back then I got so carried away with the curls and my grandma that I forgot the most important thing. I never actually told you who he is. Let me fix that. Meet Joseph. He's 30. He loves sports, runs around the jungle naked and eats bananas =) How Joseph met Camilla Yes, he's Camilla's boyfriend. And how did they meet? Oh, that's a whole other story. One early morning, Joseph was running about his business as usual, looking for another banana tree. Naked, of course. What? That's just how tough his life is =) There are plenty of bananas in the jungle. But Joseph needs special ones, with a pit. Those are rare, and they're usually guarded by yellow dragons. That day, sweet Camilla came to the jungle on a tour with her brother. And her brother... got eaten by that very yellow dragon. Well, not exactly eaten - quickly swallowed. Joseph had...

The Road to 3D Grooming. My Story. Part 13 - 2018 - Hair Grooming/Lookdev for Joseph

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In the same year, 2018, after two hairstyles for Camilla , I decided to come up with a boyfriend for her =) The logic was simple: there's a girl, there are hairstyles, but no partner. That won't do. My grandma also added fuel to the fire: she really wanted me to make a hairstyle like Jon Snow's . Arguing with grandma is a lost cause, so the task was set =) And back then, I refused on principle to use ready-made models. It felt like if you took someone else's head, the work wasn't quite yours anymore. So I had to come up with the character myself =) As I mentioned before, until 2021 I did a bit of everything, not just grooming =) Camilla is a delicate girl, so I wanted someone big and powerful next to her. A kind of Tarzan . Confident in himself. The kind of guy you feel safe with. So that, thanks to the contrast, they'd look like a real couple. Yep, back then I also set myself the goal of conveying a character's personality 😄 To do that, I learned to draw c...