"Hey everyone!

I'm glad to finally be able to model my first without the use of any tutorials!

So, I proudly present to you - PEPPA PIG!

I have bunch of these cute plastic toys from Peppa Pig franchise all around the house, my 3 year old is playing with them, so I've picked up Peppa and asked myself: can I do it? What supposed to be an easy task turned into grueling battle of one man's shallow knowledge against endless possibilities providing software. It took me more than 10 hours to finish something that most experienced modelers would do better in less then two hours. But! it's finished and I'm happy. It had its up and downs and you can see WIP photos on my artwork page.

Anyway, for beginners, what did I do here...

I took reference images (front view and left view) and inserted them in Blender. You should know better than me before you start - if you take a picture of Peppa's left side, make it viewable in right view. This will save you A LOT OF TIME.

Most Peppa's parts are spheres - arms, fingers, dress, ears, cheeks, eyes and lower part of the boot are basically spheres cut, rescaled, rotated and with material on it .

Boots are my weak point and I really couldn't do 'em better at this point, they're combo sphere and cone.

Peppa's mouth is bezier with certain thickness and red colored material.

Nostrils are recycled and rescaled eye parts.

Head was the most complicated, yet thrilling part to be done. I first started modeling it using two spheres. Then my girlfriend came and told me about a thing that's called "shapify" or something like that in 3ds Max. That command gives you (if I understood her right) an ability to extrude certain portions in different form. I've googled it up and found out how to create a snout in Blender.

So, I've selected faces of the sphere and hit ALT+SHIFT+S. Then by moving mouse I could round those faces. Then I got rid of the four triangles by MERGING and extruded the new part after adding additional loop. Some rescaling and rotating, and there's a snout!

Since I'm a total beginner and I'm really unable to make a proper tutorial, I am willing to answer brothers and sisters newbies questions if they occur.

What have I learned working on Peppa?

- don't be afraid to ask for an advice
- experiment
- use Google, ask questions, seek answers
- reference images are reference images, not the holy word that should be followed blindly.
- if you don't fail, you'll never make it in the end
- finish what you've started, young man!

Now I'm happy, and up next, I'm gonna try working with symmetry and mirroring - I'll try to recreate one toy figure :)"