Okay - another quick update - isn't going too bad considering how much I really hate doing ears! I've yet to find a tutorial that I'm completely satisfied with that allows you to build great ears - so I've sort of winged it a bit - hasn't come out too badly considering it usually takes me a day to get anything that remotely resembles an ear.
I'm sort of on schedule at the moment. The next seven days will be spent doing the torso and tweaking the head around a bit. I keep thinking on how mammoth a task I've set myself right now.
Things I have to learn:
1. Texturing - no model of mine has actually got to the stage where I'm happy enough to texture it - therefore texturing isn't something I've ever really done
2. Rigging - nope never done any of that either
3. Sasquatch - Time to get that long hair tutorial! I wonder if sasquatch can simulate wet hair?
4. Hypervoxels - If this does turn out to be a mermaid, it would make a kick-ass scene if I managed to put beads of water on her body or have water splashing up against the rock where she'll be reclining.
So - all good fun still to come!