was my first time tracing over a concept sketch. it came out better than i expected. the cool thing is that it only took a couple hours to get here. before i would try "ideas" directly in blender... i didnt realize how much of a time sink that is even for simple stuff like this.

modeling with only a vague notion vs with a pre-existing 2d reference is like night and day. i already "knew" that rationally, but i've learned that on a visceral level today.