First 3D Model - A Barrel

I have never had any 3D modelling experience and this year is the year I have decided to give it a go. I started by watching and taking notes from the official Blender Fundamentals 2.8 YouTube playlist before continuing to a beginner tutorial. The chosen tutorial was a Blender beginner tutorial by Brackey. Link to tutorial HERE.

The tutorial was fairly easy to follow with the greatest challenge being that he was using an older version of Blender and the UI format has drastically changed in new versions. Once I got to the texturing part of the tutorial, I had a lot of fun using an online image editor called Photopea. I intended to recreate the Sobel shading technique, popularised by the Borderlands games. I went through multiple edits and polishing of the texture map until I finally came to a design I was satisfied with.

The Final Rendered Images