A self-made man!


So, you want a be a self-made man? Or woman?
You want to enjoy the exclusive confidence of knowing that every polygon, every vertex in your body comes from your own sweat and labor?

First, you'll need reference materials. In this case, they'll be easy to find. Prop up a mirror next to your monitor, take snapshots, draw or have someone draw you.
We're interested in cartoonish, lower-detail material here, if you want more detail - check out the detail-up tutorial.

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Terms...
This is a form-down modeling technique.
The term form-down implies beginning with general forms and then working details into this by slicing or extruding extra geometry.

Detail-up will be dealt with in the next part.
Detail-up implies specifically detailing geometry for defined regions, then building them together to form one full mesh.
Of course, both techniques work great together, as well as with other techniques such as splines.