Well, that's day 20 of 40 days of sketching. Quite odd, on one hand it's not a lot of days but in another way while looking through them. A lot has happend. in terms of progress.

Either way, I am looking forward for the next 20 days to sketch on location. Quite different compared to sketching from google streetview. The only downside? possible bad weather & roughly 20~24 hours of traveling needed from closing the front door behind me, all the way to my first place to stay. But that's something for tomorrow morning.

day 7 left | right day 17

ps. the houses are from the country I am going to for my vacation.

So... day one in the pocket of my own sketch journey.

Being inspired by Stubbs1 Sketch journey's one and two. I decided to do my own version of it. Not 60 but 40 days of sketching. The first 20 to get the very basic's down or rather, re-evaluate what I always used as base without really questioning it.

The last 20 days, doing actual urban sketching while traveling abroad / being on vacation. With the main goal to be in better shape in my vacation than the previous years.

p.s. also making this post to give an additional kick under my own butt, to do it actually for 40 days.

It's been a while since my last build. Apparently a year minus 2 days... Which means I am also now roughly 11,5 years on PMC

Either way, to keep things interesting & trying something new for presentation; I tried making a video. It's rough (including grammar, it's google translated not my strongest point) but interesting to give it a shot.

So for my latest build. A redstone powered Shinkansen below my first video attempt.

As chunky (rendering software) isn't working for me (as Minecraft 1.12 & older), due to some odd Java behaviour after my OS update some time ago. I am left without render software. Having a build without renders feels a bit shabby. Either way I went ahead and do some replacement testing:

Shaders 1:
Using the optifine installation I already had with SEUS
... Something went awry in the combination I guess....

Shaders 2:
...*pulling jaw back up*... That one seems to work (BSL).

Blender 1:
... why is my export program (jmc2obj) not working...???...
... *site hunting*, installation place of the jar is critical???... *let's try that*....
... *it works!*....
... *fires up blender*, installing MCprep addon *needs few tutorial video's to find his way in the interface*
... where is the toolbar??? *another tutorial video*
... load's world in & managed to prep it
... Where is the start render button???....
... Found it *presses it*
... goes quite fast, some noise but hey, it's render =)

Do you think it is worth to invest more time in blender rendering, considering the results of shaders 2?

images (scaled down) below from my latest build "The Bermuda Valley" (maze makers contest entry)

So I have done a test run on the PMC Papercraft Photography Competition, below the result:



Which is a papercraft of my latest attempt on skinning



So yeah:
- it misses the helmet (should have checked the merge button, for easier making)
- some second layer stuff which isn't incorporated at the papercraft. Looks quite bland now.
- for the next run, more solid paper
- the poster gum I had was dried-out...