Merry Christmas yall!
Playing with Blender 3D to learn better modeling and texture painting and rendering using Rayscaper!

Had the chance to make more...

This is rather an old model... Yet I liked the result.

More and behind the scene images

@L-i-am ok, great.
Just modeled it for you
Please let me know if it needs modifications.

@pixelcruncher My pleasure to have my hands on such a charming piece of software. Considering my laptop is rather old, not supporting recent graphic cards and all the computation is done by the processor.
Here are more tries to discover the "coating" layer .

@L-i-am in all of the designs the concept has been to be in harmony with the context. Pebbles, Branches and river, flatness, etc...

I already have shared a few watercolor videos on youtube and I hope you find them handy. Here is one of them ( mute the sound plz):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qd7VTDsX_N0

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I was born in a small and beautiful mountainous town called Borujen. At that time it was a lovely and privileged cozy city with beautiful houses and entrance gates that rarely you may find them now.
This one, amongst a few, has remained despite damages and must be as old as the WWI era. (Unfortunately, the porcelain plate indicating the construction date is missing.) They used to be on the gate's top middle, where you now witness a niche.
https://3dwarehouse.sketchup.com/model/335b7872-d7cb-41d1-991b-2b36d5a44e81/A-gate-in-Borujen

Over the years each time, I encountered a beautiful hand-drawn sketch, have tried to mimic it in Sketchup and here you will find some of them for free:
https://community.sketchucation.com/topic/164079/new-styles-by-majid
A sneak peek:

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Fine render.
Yet time to revise construction codes, tastes, or details... I am wondering why they repeat the same style/material/construction skills... while witnessing that is vulnerable to fire... It is like making iglos in tropical climate, just because I used to iglos....

I will watch the video, yet years ago I read a book on quantum physics (by Alastair I. M. Rae). Due to the book, The thing is that the "observer effect" happens on micro-scale (and one suggestion to upscale it is the Schrödinger's cat hypothesis).
Due to the book if I remember, our world has started by an intangible division on micro scale, and all successive creatures are the result of micro-scale incidents. So basically our world is the result of micro incidents.
If those tiny incidents were different, the result would be another world in another level/time—maybe still dinosaurs were alive. Or if those micro incidents were faster, we would be in another level of knowledge, civilization, and technology.
and here is the fun part:
As the observer makes the reality (on micro-scale, and our world or other possible worlds are an accumulation of those observations), the "PROPER OBSERVER" can witness whatever world they anticipate...
it means that the world of UFOs and dinosaurs are there waiting for the proper observer to realize them...

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Inspiring! Thanks for sharing!

Great render, and HAPPY NEW YEAR ( I wonder why you exclude New Zealanders!)

Thank you mates and HAPPY NEW YEAR, my friends!

@Mike-Amos Thank you, mate. It all started by an image from Lisa Glanz and was a personal challenge to learn how to "texture paint" such a model.
Not very similar, but.. :
https://www.lisaglanz.com/blog/character-drawing-challenge-12-skating-bear/

@majid This is my most complicated organic modeling job so far.

Merry Christmas yall!
Playing with Blender 3D to learn better modeling and texture painting and rendering using Rayscaper!

@Mike-Amos Actually it was a really friendly popular design. Each gate had two brick benches to sit down and chat with neighbors. The Elderly also had this chance to rest for as long as they wanted, while being safe from the sun and precipitation.