Based on one of the BCON talks, I decided to try doing some images with just 10 cubes. Only very slight editing made for shapes and to add more accurate color patterns on the ones I colored, but mostly basic scaling, rotation, and positioning. In other words, even if all you've done is a blender Fundamentals or CORE course (and not even the full course at that!), you could do something like this. HDRIs or sky boxes used for lighting with maybe a lamp
(Marking as "Final"... but will probably add more :D )
1. Posed figure based on a pic I took in late April 2026.
2. Picture based on my dog Coco.
3. Picture based on my dog Jackie. (went over 10 on this one.)
That is a cool idea. I've always said that simple scene are where you truly have to exercise your composition muscles and your artistic eyes develop greatly.
I keep forgetting about doing some "simple" projects like this... but they can be great creativity sparks
One of my favorite images I've made took this same idea one step further, adding in subsurf, more usage of loop cuts, modifying the simple shapes with extrusions, etc, to make "play-dough" like creations. For one of these "play-dough" style scenes, I recreated a scene from The Empire Strikes Back with Yoda, Luke, R2D2, and the X-wing in a swamp. (The trees I made in that one were the only things that were more complicated.)