Month of boredom: bendy doggo WIP 01 (Patreon)

So a friend of mine sent me this picture probably like 2 years ago, and today I was going through my idea dump folder and I was like hey, that's nice - so there we go. Decided to make it with Jinjing-Yu.

At first I didn't think I could tackle it, because I wasn't sure if I'll be able to translate this quadruped pose to a hominid body. XD Then I also didn't feel like making a chair. ._.

But then my brain decided to not be an asshole for once, and it gave me a nice idea for a chair that looks lovely, and isn't a pain in the ass to make! So that's one less problem. I simply decided to go with the idea and wing the pose.

NOTE: I wasn't really making any progress images, nor did I save any unfinished things, so I'll improvise the first two pictures.

So I took a sphere and masked it from the side like so:

Then I extracted the masked area, which gave me something like this:

Some smoothing and adjustments later, as well as some procedural modeling, I ended up with this:

Pretty much ready, but it also needed a cushion. Made that by extracting the bottom part of the chair's inner surface, and then smoothing, pushing and pulling it into shape. And there we have it:

It also needs legs, but that's something I'll add later, during scene setup. Maybe I'll also add some sewing details to the cushion.

Now, we also need a Jinjing-Yu to awkwardly flop onto this thing, yes?

I always start with the expression, because most of the time I know exactly what I will be making. And also because making expressions on a character in an asymmetrical pose is not fun lol. So here we have the expression (pardon the lack of hair; adding that is like one of the last things):

"smol blep"
- Jinjing-Yu

Then comes the basic posing. This takes the longest in the sketch stage. I think I spent about 2-3 hours getting the basic pose more or less right. I most often start with posing the torso and legs, then head, then arms and hands. Here's what I have so far:

NOTE: I didn't pose the arms or tail yet. XD

As you can see, the nipples are horribly deformed; I didn't get a chance to fix them yet, but it's a normal thing to happen when posing torsos. The whole body probably needs some fixes, still, as this is a very difficult pose. This is also more or less the final angle. I usually work on poses to make them look good from any angle (this makes them more believable and natural), but I might skip that part for this piece because holy shit

I'd say the first stage is about 60% done.

I'll try to make regular updates for this piece, but once I finish it, I won't post it until next month, because I REALLY need a backlog.

But yes, I hope this stuff is somewhat interesting to see!

Enjoy! :D