Modeling the notebooks, pieces of paper and books turned out to be much easier then I expected. I started with a four sided Poly and then just cut the edges where the folds and creases were. Looking at the wire it sure isn't pretty but if works in the end. As always I tried to stick to quads as smoothing modifiers aren't too keen on triangles.
The biggest task modeling wise had to be the violin and the rose. Luckily I found some good blueprints for violin which helped me quite a lot. After the belly was done, I had to find a way to do the F-holes. Boolean did the trick, but as usual I had to clean up the mesh. For rib and lining I used the belly's outer edge, converted it to spline and enabled renderable spline (set to 4 sided). The rest was just chamfering the edges and doing some small modifications. Last but not least came the hardest part – the scroll. It took a lot of patience to make it look right. What started out as a cylinder quickly transformed into a scroll with some edge cutting and extruding. I think the wire tells the whole story.
While blueprints made my job with the violin a lot easier, there is no such thing as a blueprint for flowers. All I had to go by were the reference photos from the net. After the first petal was done, I just copied it number of times. I reworked each of them so I ended up with 5 or 6 different ones in size and shape. All that was left to do was to copy them a few times and arrange them around a center point. Overlapping was quickly sorted with a bit of bending and edge moving.
As I started this project, I thought that modeling would took me a couple of days, but as it turned out, I spent quite a while modeling all the details. Don't know if it's just me, but I rather model something then fake it with textures. Which brings me to the next chapter....
