My idea for this assignment is a little ambitious. In Alaska, where I'm from, there is a mountain called Mount Susitna. Its nicknamed the Sleeping Lady because it looks like a woman sleeping on her side. The story goes that there used to be giants roaming the earth, and that the mountain was one. She was engaged to a man who had to go of to fight. She promised to wait in that exact spot for him, and eventually fell asleep there. Word came back that the man had been killed, but because she was sleeping so peacefully nobody wanted to wake her. She stayed asleep and slowly became Mount Susitna. On a good day you can easily see the mountain from Anchorage, my hometown. I thought it would be kind of cool to create a giant face on its side like in the story, and then place it on a bluff with a clear view of the mountain. That way you can see my model with Susitna right behind it.
I had a couple technical issues trying to work out how to sculpt it, and eventually landed with this:
It's a little hard to see, but so far I have the base of the face and hair done, and the hand completely done. I'm going for a low poly, geometric sort of look as I know I do not have the skillset yet to make it completely smooth. I plan to add a little more to the hair to make it look like it's pooling onto the ground, and then attach everything together to get one object. As for texture, I think I might go for a pencil/graphite look to emulate stone or concrete. I can make that myself and then scan it in. That way I can get a general texture overall and add my own shadows for details I don't want to sculpt.
There was also an issue importing into SketchUp. For some reason it kept all the booleans I had subtracted and made a second ghost hand. Luckily everything did import, so at least there's that.
It made me loss my marbles a little bit, but overall I'm pretty proud of it. I would have hoped to have more done, but now that I have more understanding of what I messed up, I feel a lot better about it so far.
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