Blender 4.0 | Model Feet For Beginners

>> Welcome back to the channel.

And today we have a fun little
beginner's modeling exercise,

and that is how to take a
cube and model it into a foot

with nice topological flow and
a nice simple topology here.

Nothing complicated.

So if you want to learn how to make this,
keep watching, and I'm going to show you step

by step, through simple methods, how to get from
a cube to these nice-looking feet over here.

So we have a new scene opened up in Blender.

Let's select a default cube, and we're going to
tab into Edit Mode, at which point we're going

to go into our front graphic view, and we're
going to go G, Z, and holding in Control,

we're going to snap it to the floor, like so.

So it's sitting here at the top.

And then we're going to go into
our right orthographic view

by pressing 3 on our number pad.

And let's go into our X-ray view.

And let's select this front face and
go E to extrude, and extrude it out.

Let's extrude it out to about here, and
let's grab these two verts and go G, Z,

and let's move them down like so.

Then let's grab this face up here and go E to
extrude, and extrude it up about this much.

And let's go X, and let's delete
that face at the top, like so.

And then we're going to go into our top
graphic view, and in our top orthographic view,

and in our top orthographic view, let's
select this front face and go S, X,

and scale it on the X a little bit.

And then we'll go Control-R and
just add in a loop in the middle.

Control-R, double click.

On the side, we're going to
go Control-R, double-click.

And over here, we're going to go Control-R
over here and add in a loop over here.

And then what we're going to do is in our
top view, let's just select these front faces

and go E to extrude them a little bit, like so.

And then we're going to press
A to select everything.

And then we're just going to come in
here, Control-R, add one in the middle.

And Control-R, add one over here.

And then we're going to press
A to select everything.

We're going to go to our smooth tool,
and then we're going to click and drag,

and just smooth it out a little bit like this.

Then we're going to turn off our X-ray.

And now what we're going to do is we need to
have an area here where we can extrude toes.

We don't want to go Control-R and add in loops
here, which is what a lot of beginners will do,

but then you're adding in unnecessary
loops over here, too much topology.

So a better way to approach this
is to press K on your keyboards.

Let's come over here and press
K, and let's click over here

with the Cut tool, and let's
go to the next edge.

And let's go all the way back to here, and
let's come over here, click in the middle.

And then let's click across onto this vertex
over here in the corner, and then press Enter.

And then let's come over here,
press K to get to Knife tool,

and let's click over here and go across like so.

Now let's click over here in the
middle, just like we did before,

and let's click on this vertex here in this
corner, and then press Enter, like that.

And now we're just going to come here,
press K again, and let's just cut

across from this vertex to
this vertex, like that.

And now let's do the same thing at the bottom.

We're going to come over here, press, in
fact let's go from this vertex over here.

We're going to press K. Let's go from
here, down to this edge over here.

Let's come to the bottom, click over
here in the middle, and then let's click

on this vertex over here and press Enter.

And let's come over here, press K. Let's
come over here, come down, come across,

click in the middle of this face here,
and then go to this vertex in the corner.

Press Enter.

And then let's just press K and just cut
across from here to here, and then press Enter.

So now we still have quads, we still have
square faces, but we have a little bit

of a better situation now because we have
more faces here in the front to deal with,

but we haven't added unnecessary
topology to the rest of our foot.

So now we can see we have, you know,
one, two, three, four toes here.

What about the other toe?

So what we're going to do, we're going to grab
these two faces here on the side, like this.

Let's get to a top view,
and let's go R to rotate,

and let's rotate this and
go G to move it out a bit.

And then let's go to a vertex, select option,

and just select these two
verts, tuck them in a bit.

And then let's just space these
verts out here, like this.

So now this is what we have.

I might just grab this guy over
here, just these three verts.

Double G, just slide them up a bit.

Same with these guys over here.

Double G, just slide them up, just to
make them a little bit more evenly spaced.

And we want more space here for the big toes.

I'll slide these guys up.

And now let's go to face select option.

Let's select this face and this face over here,
and let's go to our right orthographic view,

and let's go G and move this down a bit.

And let's go E to extrude, G to
move up, S to scale a little bit.

And let's go E to extrude, G to move
it down a little bit, like this,

and then E to extrude forward, S to scale.

And now we have our first toe.

And then let's grab the next two faces.

Let's go into our right orthographic view.

Let's enable our X-ray, and
let's do the same thing.

E to extrude, S to scale, E
to extrude, G to move it down.

Let's move a bit more further, forward like
this, and then E to extrude, S to scale,

and now we have a toe over here
that's a little bit longer.

I'm going to go out of X-ray Mode, and then
I'm going to grab this, these two here.

And let's go ahead to do the
exact same thing for this.

I'm going to go into my right
view, go back to X-ray.

E to extrude, S to scale, G to move it up.

E to extrude a bit more forward, E
to extrude, S to scale, like that.

Okay. And then I'm going to
grab the next two over here.

And them I'm going to go into
my left orthographic view

by pressing Control and number pad 3.

And with this one, we're going to go
E to extrude, S to scale, bring it up.

E to extrude out, S to scale, and then
E to extrude, S to scale, like that.

And then I'm going to go
into my top orthographic.

I'm going to enable proportional
editing, and under the dropdown I'm going

to make it connected only, and I'm going to
go G and just bring this in a little bit,

and rotate it, just to adjust it, like so.

And now we have our three toes over here.

Now let's grab the big one over here.

And let's go to a top orthographic view, and
this time we're going to go E to extrude,

and this time I'm going to rotate it slightly.

G to move it in here, and now we're
going to go E to extrude, like so.

And let's go E to extrude one more time, S to
scale, and let's go to our edge select option,

select this edge down here, and
go G, Z, and just bring it up,

and then double G just to slide it forward.

And let's grab this guy here.

G, Z, move it up.

And now, this is what we have.

Some nice-looking toes.

I'm going to go to my front view and just
adjust these by bringing them down a little bit

with proportional editing, just
so they sit more on the floor.

But now we have our toes.

Okay. So now you can go, with proportional
editing, you can grab different edges,

and you can adjust the shape of your
foot a little bit more, but more or less,

this is a simple foot you can model.

And from here you could add a lot more
detail, subdivide it a little bit,

but this is kind of like the simplest foot
you can possibly model using this technique.

So go ahead, spend as much time as you want
polishing it up, but this is where I'm going

to leave this tutorial on
modeling a foot in Blender.

And if you wanted to mirror this, you
could just go into Edit Mode and go G, X,

move it over to the side, and you can go
to your Mirror modifier, or your modifier.

So just click Plus, and then search for
a mirror, and by default it should be set

to the X, so then you have two feet, like this.

And you can also go add and search,
and just get a Subdivision modifier.

Tab back out, right-click, and go Shade Smooth,

but that's really all there is
to modeling feet in Blender.

So I really hope you guys have enjoyed this,
and I'll see you next time for another Blender.