I try to follow the pothead course.
Let's say a 15 minutes video. It takes me like 2 and a half hours to complete the video. It's very long and I don't feel productive. But I learn a whole lot.
I feel very impatient as I don't progress fast in the course. I make a tons of mistakes and I have to reshape and redo everything.
It's not my intelligence. I understand the course very easily. But it's always about small details. Either you model is done correctly or your model is done incorrectly. I don't want to miss any bit of details within the course.
I want to make models clean. Some pieces are not as perfect as the teacher, Jonathan Lampel, cause it's time consuming, but I get the idea and I try my best. It takes a lot of courage. Lots of effort.
Hey maxcady ,
That sounds all very recognizable.
Don't worry, you will get faster, although you'll probably never make something that is done in a 15 minute video in 15 minutes.
Try not to be impatient (difficult, I know!): "Journey before destination.".
Making mistakes is great; that's how you learn. Almost all questions asked here are being answered by people that made the same mistakes themselves.
And yes, it takes a lot of courage and effort! This is not a donut tutorial! Just because this is a beginner-friendly course, doesn't mean that it is easy.
Yeah Max, it's all about patience, trial and error, getting into a different mindset. I always say most important of all is having Grit. That underlying firmness of mind when facing hardship. No matter what you are doing or learning, you are going to encounter hardship along the way, especially in the beginning, but it will most definitely get easier with time, you just need to be resilient. It's like Harry Potter said: “Every great wizard in history has started out as nothing more than what we are now, students. If they can do it, why not us?”. So yeah, imagine that, there was a time when Dumbledore or Yoda couldn't do a spell or wield a lightsaber. Everyone is a beginner sometime.
We that learned 3D were very frustrated at some point or another, and each and every time we pushed on, that's what made the difference. Remember, Humans are creatures of habit. If you quit when things get tough, it gets that much easier to quit the next time. On the other hand, if you force yourself to push through it, the grit begins to grow in you. Stay on it man, just keep pushing. Grit and discipline are more important than talent. Without grit, talent may be nothing more than unmet potential.
I'll echo what Omar and Martin said so far. It may be a 15 minute video, but that's usually edited down from 25-30 minutes of actually working, and that's only after I've done that same thing several times to get it right for recording. It sounds like you're following along in exactly the right way! Spending two hours on one piece might sound like a lot, but that time spent in guided practice is at least half the value of the course if not more. If you need to take a break then feel free to pause and come back another day, since I know it takes a lot of patience, but by the end you're going to be SO much faster and farther ahead than when you started. Keep up the good work!
I'm the kind of guy that likes things to be done the right way. I see a lot of videos on Youtube saying: I learned Blender in 5 hours. Well, that's great but I can see they first project, which is good but very basic meshes. They can't understand subtil details and they would not be able to make complex meshes. I don't like those shortcuts. I prefer to follow you and progress slowly and understand topology.