Adventures across the 3rd dimension

Yeah, vertex painting only really works when you have an absurdly large number of polygons, but I prefer it because you don't have to do the UV stuff which is hard when you have an absurdly large number of polygons.
There should be no technical reason why it wouldn't work cos the texture masking is almost the same as the stencil option (which IS there) the only difference is that the chosen colour is multiplied with the brush colour making everything darker.

But I don't care any more.
I've moved past that bit now and need to go back to hairdressing to put something on his head.

Haircut or wig.

 

And now my Mean Angry Space Fairy has gone grey and posed himself in the clouds.

 


Those hands are still lumpy though.
So difficult to get them to retain some kind of credible structure at the wrist.
Also his arms may be too short but you can change that easily by scaling the bones.

I've just been playing with the cloth simulation to drape something over my god's shoulder in that Greek kind of way and my lovely fabric keeps sliding and falling off his body. It would be frustrating if it wasn't so funny to watch.

EDIT: I now think everyone should get dressed by throwing clothes at their body to just see what sticks.

Spent a while trying to find that halo texture function in Blender but after resorting to internet searches it seems like it hasn't had that function for years since they ditched the internal renderer for Eevee.
Apparently those Glare nodes are the next best option (and I was looking at those anyway the other week) but I'm not sure if that provides exactly the effect that I want.

Technically it is added afterwards because it's a compositor node.

But you're right, all the way through this one I've been thinking "I could just paint this on afterwards." But trying to do it all in Blender is a fun way to learn stuff.
Unless I have any new ideas I think it's pretty close to being done now with just the dilemma of how much of the glare gimmick I include. I did eventually get the drape to "stick" by adding more vertices and pre-shaping it a little instead of just dropping a flat plane on him.
But the whole pic does now seem a bit more illuminated than I'd planned. The lack of emissive lighting in Eevee meant I had to add lots of little lights to pick out the clouds and it obviously brightens the whole scene more than I want. It'd be nice if I could restrict the light to certain areas but physics doesn't work like that.