I actually think the move should be to:

Texture paint this table.
Render/light it.

Then just dive into NPR from there.

If diving into NPR proves difficult, continue with the project learning path. Just don't do NPR. But I think it's safe to just start with NPR. K.

My Blender Learning Path

 I started out with a scizor, and had a hard time before declaring fuck blender

I need to start smaller and simpler so here

Be rough. Don’t be perfect. Quantity over quality.
Finished is better than perfect.

KEEP IT SIMPLE

Project Path:

-Pear
-Banana
- Sword
-3d simple cartoon man (think of the simple animate school rigs)
- simple robot (walle cleaning one)
- wooden shack

Hit list on things to learn:

- texture painting

- lighting/rendering

- NPR

- Shader node networking

- Rigging

- Animating

- Modeling

(Shit. So really, everything)

First Post about Blender

Wow I forgot I had this blog. Here I am 8 years later.

I started learning Blender and wanted to blog to track my progress. 

Starting out with a very simple model. A table. Yet I've learned a lot from this one model.

Things I've learned from this project:

- loop cutting

- xray mode

- x as a delete option

- 1, 2, and 3 for vertex, edge, and face selection

- M to merge verts

- shift+r to repeat last command

- Basic shading

- Basic UV unwrapping

The UVs are so clean!

Tutorials I've used for this quick 1.5 hour riff

https://youtu.be/XleO7DBm1Us?si=YqeRlfsrj_v701H5

https://youtu.be/fsLO1F5x7yM?si=i5tcaCc_gRdlklAu