In today’s session I was able to start work on my Blender donut! This was very exciting as I was able to practice a lot of the keyboard shortcuts that I learned in the last video. In case anyone following his tutorial may have forgotten them, he still went over what keys to hit and how to do many of the things covered in his last video. To start, I opened up a new file, deleted the default cube, and used shift+a to add the shape that would become my donut.
In his first video, I learned how to bend the basics of the shape (width, size, etc), add modifiers to it, enter into Edit Mode from Object Mode, and bend and move parts of the vertices to create protrusions in the default shape. This added imperfections along the cylinder of the donut to make it more accurate to how a real donut bakes. I also flattened the sides a bit since donuts typically rise up while in the oven.
At one point, I struggled when selecting a full row of the donut’s vertices because I had forgotten I had turned on the option “Emulate 3D Mouse” in the last video when I attempted to model without a computer mouse. This proved nearly impossible, and I had gotten a mouse since then, but forgot to turn off that option which effectively rendered my Alt key useless. I needed my Alt key to select the full row at once, and a helpful commenter on that video brought up what to do when it wasn’t working. Through this help, I was able to correct my problem and finish the video without any other issues. Below is a photo of my progress and a link to the first video!
In the second video I followed, we learned how to make the icing on the donut. Basically, it involved duplicating the whole thing and deleting the bottom half of it. Using modifiers, you can then make it bigger and thicker to look like icing coating the top of it. Then, through a number of other steps, you can bend the vertices of the icing layer and snap it to the donut to make it look like the icing is dripping down the sides. This is as far as his second tutorial video got! Below, I have another picture of my progress alongside a video link to his tutorial.
