Adventures across the 3rd dimension

Hmm, I was hoping to do the eye AND rig the hand today. But the eye was rather time consuming. Yes, I know I could have just downloaded the textures from the internet (and  this video  has a link to all the ones you need) but I wanted to paint them myself!

So eventually I did get a better eye...

 

...but it doesn't seem to work in Cycles...

 

I don't know why.
Maybe it needs more samples or something but once you turn on reflection/refraction then Cycles gets slow enough as it is. That pic took over fifteen minutes to render whereas the Eevee one only took five seconds and the real time viewport isn't that different.
But I do like the darker creases and nostrils from Cycles.

Anyway, I'll leave that and move on to the hand rigging next.
I've also started thinking about doing the lower half of his body and giving him some kind of clothing but despite seeing lots of Orcs in Lord Of The Rings, Skyrim and many other fantasy things, when I stop to visualise them I have absolutely no idea what kind of thing an Orc would wear!
I should pay more attention when I see an Orc.

Rigged the hand today. Still haven't done any weight painty stuff, just used automatic weights from the menu but I don't think the ugly fellow cares...

 

Aaaw, isn't that sweet? He loves using his hands now.
He even managed a half smile without clipping his big teeth.

Edit: Oh, I forgot to reply back to him...

Hmm. Clothing.

I don't really know how to do this so I thought I'd start off simple with just a leather strap over the shoulder. And it was hard.
The end result wasn't good either....
 

I attempted to just add a torus, scale it, rotate it and then sculpt it around him but trying to keep a straight edge while still getting it to wrap to his body was not fun.
There must be a better way of doing it. Preferably one that doesn't involve that super slow Cloth Simulation thing.

Perhaps Shrink Wrap? Or maybe just snap poly modelling like when you do that manual Retopo thingy.

Dunno.