Modelling - Legs and Head


Now that the arm and torso was done, work on the legs could begin. Once again I was just going to make one of the legs and then it would be mirrored over with the other body parts. To make the leg it mainly just involved extruding downwards and then adding and stretching/squishing edge loops to get the shape of the leg and foot. The base of the foot was made by first extruding it all downwards and then extruding the center upwards at a slight angle.



Once the leg was done the mirror tool was used to mirror the half I built to the other side and then the two halves were joined together. Before I could mirror it though I went and made sure that all of the points on the center axis were in line so that when I would mirror and join them there wouldn't be any issues.
Then it was time to build the head. I started by you extruding the top of the model upwards and then just used the extrude and edge loop tools to mold the head shape into the right shape. The ears were made by extruding out a cuboid slightly and then using the smooth tool on it. The wings were made via extruding out a bit and then smoothing as well. The face features were made by using the multi-cut tool to cut out areas of the face which I would then extrude and manipulate into shape. 


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