Witch modelling: Shirt and Sweater vest

 I started the witch model with the shirt and the sweater vest. I started out with a hollowed out cylinder which I shaped to be the bottom of the sweater vest, then kept extruding upwards and shaping as I went, eventually shaping the arm holes when I got to that point. Once I'd got the basic shape I then used the relax geometry tool to smooth out the uneven edges. Once I had the main shape of the sweater vest, I extruded the edges to create the ridge. I wanted to model the ridges from my concept, but I decided to add them in the textures instead, as they'd be difficult to model and I can make them look better through textures.

Next were the sleeves of the shirt under the sweater vest. I extruded from the arm holes of the sweater vest, then kept extruding and shaping to form the sleeve, using the orthographs and the base meshes arm as a guide.

Next I modelled the collar of the shirt. Instead of extruding from the neck of the sweater vest I decided it would look better to have the collar be a seperate mesh, and I wouldn't have to worry about adding extra uneccesary geometry to the sweater vest. I actually struggled quite a lot with modelling the collar. I started out with a basic cube, extruding it around to create the shape of the collar. I had a lot of issues extruding the collar down to form the shirt, at first I extruded just an edge, but that created a lot ofissues with the geometry which I couldn't figure out, so I went back and extruded faces instead of just edges, which worked better. This worked out well because it also added extra dimension to the shirt. once I'd got the shape of the shirt collar I wanted, I added a bit of volume to create the shirt edge.

Lastly I created the buttons, which were really simple. I created a polygon cube, pulled in the corner vertices and added a few edge loops to the edges to support the shape. Then I duplicated them and rotated them.


Here is the completed sweater vest and shirt. I'm really happy with how these came out, considering it's my first time modelling these kind of clothes.





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