Life is a series of desires

I want to talk about desires.

What is it to begin with? In my understanding, this is a goal that I want to realize. To do this, you can find, master, invent and use different tools.

Desires change over time. The reason may be the environment, people, a changing view of reality.

And as soon as one desire is fulfilled, a second one, or several at once, is almost always formed. They can be structured and prioritized.

Even before I started doing 3D modeling, for as long as I can remember, my activities were almost always related to art.

It was drawing pictures with pencil, oil paints, acrylic paints, and later digital drawing.

I made figures from polymer clay, mostly uncomplicated, simple shapes, for example, a stylized cat with floral patterns instead of fur.

I even painted with food colors on flour confectionery xD

An interesting experience was making jewelry from copper wire.

For quite a long time I made drawings for forged metal products (railings, canopies, window bars). It was quite exciting and there was even a bit of creativity there.

But all this did not please me enough for me to say that at the moment this is the work of my life.

I wanted to find something more meaningful and exciting for myself.

And the most important thing on my path to becoming a 3D modeler was working in a real forge. It was a LARP workshop. Metal helmets and armor were made there. They used etching and chasing method.

This workshop also had a second department: armor for LARP made of plastic. That's where I mainly worked.

It was in order to get this job that I started studying 3D modeling. I searched the Internet for free programs and chose Blender.

My first task for getting a job was modeling a helmet. It was the helmet of Karl Franz from the Warhammer universe.

I became so interested in this that I modeled this helmet in 2 weeks. I must say that I had no experience working in 3D modeling programs. But as they say, the main thing is to want :)

I ended up getting the job.

I made master models of helmets, printed them on a 3D printer, and sanded them for hours. This was then sent to make a mold using the electroplating method.

After making the mold, plastic was poured into it and a helmet was obtained. Quite a fun process :)

I also did plastic casting in silicone molds and made templates for etching on metal armor. And a lot of other things related to armor. Everything was very varied and exciting.

I was delighted with this work and began to want to do this all my life, it was so interesting to me. I received a small salary, but I was happy. I wanted a small salary increase in the future, but this was not so important, because this work became my hobby.

But after 3 years, I had a conflict with my boss. I was treated unfairly despite my passion, initiative and great interest in my work. I was fired.

But there is one undoubted advantage in this.

This work allowed me to start selling my 3D models on stocks. One fine moment, when I made a decent number of models at my job, my boss suggested that I put them on stock (even before I was fired =)). Thanks to him for this! He did this for his own reasons - he did not want to increase my salary, although he very much praised my work.

And so, 4 years ago I put my first helmet on stock. I didn't expect anything, I just made helmets mainly for my own pleasure.

Over time, this began to generate income.

There was a desire to work only for myself, to develop my own business, which also brings a lot of pleasure.

At the moment there is quite noticeable progress in my skills, which I am constantly trying to develop.

Slowly but surely, income is growing, interesting and cool customers appear.

I'm happy with what's happening. I am gradually becoming able to satisfy my needs better.

I set new goals for myself and know that I can realize them later. For example, buying a new tablet, a gaming chair and a comfortable computer mouse.

The next thing I want is to develop Patreon, gain more fame and make 3D models mainly on Patreon and not have to do anything to order. I want the priority thing in custom work to be only my interest. I was very lucky, my last orders were exactly like this. Thank you guys, I know some of you are reading this ^_^

At the moment I am here. I want to do better next.

If you are interested, ask questions and if you want to share, what do you want in this life?