finished the BARREL. first blender asset since i was like 14 or something. tbh wasn't as bad as i thought it would be, im sure with more time using blender itll get even easier. Basically starting with a cylender using a hell of a lot of the loop cut option i was able to make the rough shape of the barrel added the rings and started texturing the thing. got halfway though when i realised i wanted to indent the edges of the boards creating the barrel to give some amount of depth to the asset. after struggling with the texturing it probably took me about 5ish hours, and most of it was screwing around trying to get the barrel to look explodey. im quite proud of my spray paint effect for the text. using the airbrush too slowly to get the text and then decreasing its radius to something reaaaaally small allowed me to make the drip effects by quickly pulling the brush down, and holding it at the end to make the droplet. i think it really pulls the spray paint look together. i then spent ages struggling to get the materials right so the rings around the barrel are metallic and the wood is... woody but after that, it was just screwing with the raytracing settings to make it look cool for the screenshot.

while playing with the different brushes i did notice that my pc... was attempting to take off into the stratosphere and probably could be defined as a toaster