How I Got Good at Blender 

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agreed. you use blender for several years, and still learn something new every week, it's crazy!

Ian Hubert's lazy tutorials are not for beginners, but I've found that watching on loop about a million times forces it into you. I tried 3 or 4 times over the years to really sit down and learn Blender, and every time I made it maybe a few inches further but still just never "got" it. And watching Ian over and over really connected with my brain in a certain way and finally turned the big keys. After you've made it through the donut and some other basic stuff (CG Geek is excellent), starting to watch Ian's stuff will make you feel a little over confident on how easy certain things are and pushes you to do things outside your comfort zone and get better.

The face in the thumbnail is a self-portrait I made with 3ds MAX around 2006. 😦

For me a another good way of learning is also taking notes on what mistake and error you encounter when working on blender, Most people like me who doesn't know the ins and out in a software like blender will always run into problems and worst part is you cant describe it. best solution for me to either find a tutorial or post the problem in a blender forum, After that I would list the solution on how to solve it on my notes. you can use anything to be the notes as long as its a way for you to look back and preview. personally for me I like to use discord and have my own personal group for myself where i can post all the notes on a channel specifically for blender problems while also having other channel used for blender resource material or reference material.

Best advice ever. I couldn't agree more. It's great to hear it from someone else. It really makes you wonder.

I started my Blender journey in 1.5 and had a big hiatus after 2.5. Now I'm learning it again basically from scratch, so much of my muscle memory is no longer applicable.

I agree with a lot of what was said, I started November 2022 and been learning blender since! I’m with the cg cookie people personally to learn a lot from but also subbed to about 100 people for blender on RU-vid I bet. I kind of agree with not using peoples assets for a while even though I all ready have bought some. I’m making my kind of small apartment and I’ll use the assets I find from this one creator for most models and model other specific things myself is my current project! I finished the basics of navigating blender and stuff like that and im learning digital lighting now but I also plan to learn 3d environments and be good at storytelling for my main focus as a animator! Lots to learn for the next 2-3 years on the fundamentals but it’ll be worth it! Then to never stop learning after that :)

CG Fast Track is great for getting started. Even more so than the doughnut. I recommend it before doing the doughnut. (It is how I am learning Blender 3.6 after finally getting my potato of a computer back able to model at all.)

Thanks for your inputs ❤ So helpful for me as I am a beginner to Blender

Hey thank you very much, this really resonates with the way is was thinking, I am still following through some videos step by step to learn the techniques but I will be doing my best to create things from scratch.

This is really helpful

A good video with great advice, thank you!

Great advice! I am an artist who enjoys variation which helps me to explore and stay passionate. I like to paint in oils but also acrylic, sculpt in wood, scratch build scale models. I also worked as a software artist building models for computer games in 3D Studio Max ( 1996-2015.)But as much as i can transfer the basic 3 D knowledge i gained, things have moved on! am miles behind with blender, so thanks for this .

when you learn blender you gotta be like blender you have to learn everything be the jack of all trades.

Awesome video SIR!

With regards to not putting in the time I found this out the very hard way. I used to make armour and prop models for use in Pepakura so they were really basic and had to stop for a short time, then Blender changed something with an update and I couldn't find the stuff I usually used. I tried a few times to relearn blender but evert time I did I couldn't get used to the new setup and still couldn't get past the stuff I was used to doing not working because if the updates. My problem started when Blender changed to 2.6 and now it's at 4 I am so far out of tune that I am essentially a total noob again and need to learn blender fron the start all over again.

Well what i enjoyed really the most among tutorials is Cbailey content🎉🎉 very informative

Sir , include all concepts in thumbnail you taught in video, it will attract so many people.

I watched a few Blender Guru vids but I came to hate his smug face. :( I mean, GURU? Too arrogant for my tastes. Must be the water down "undah". I did watch his donut tut all the way through.. I later made one myself but didn't follow his tutorial to do it. I did it from kind of memory and a knowledge of everything I'd seen in other tutorials and a bit from his (mostly the copying of the base mesh to create a covering or partial covering, namely the icing). Most tutorials are helpful because there is too much to know and you can learn something new all the time. Some are just way too involved for where you are in your Blender journey and you watch and go NOPE. Keep rockin, man.. Love your vids.

I tried getting into Blender for many years and didn't succeed much until I watched Grant Abbitt's @grabbitt beginner tutorials. They are absolute best for beginners. Especially "Learn Blender 3 for complete beginners", old cottage tutorials and sea shack tutorials. He teaches how to very quickly start doing some fun things in Blender and, more importantly, the skills with simple low-poly style that he teaches are easily scaled later to more complex scenes. He uses very little external stuff in his tutorials, and simply teaches how to create these fun very simple stylized scenes in Blender, which is a much better thing for beginner, as more realistic stuff is very overwhelming for beginners. Grant managed to make learning very fun and after his courses I actually had an ability to start creating something right away - the feeling I didn't have after watching Andrew Price or many other tutorials where I was left with a weird feeling of "ok, I can do a donut now, how does it help me?". So, if you are an absolute beginner to Blender, go to Grant Abbitt, you won't regret it. On a similar note, I has recently seen a trailer of CG Boost's tutorial about simple cube-based animation ("Cubic Worlds" course), which fits into this idea of "learn very simple fun skills first" paradigm which I liked so much in Grant's tutorials. I didn't see the tutorial itself, but judging by the videos of their students they've showcased, and the general feeling I am getting about it, this is way to go. I like that more and more teachers start using this approach of teaching quick fun scalable skills.