The most challenging part was figuring out how to model Gertrude's hair. Her hair is composed of coils and they feel very bouncy and springy. After a series of hair iterations, I ended up deciding on a Quad drawing process: First, I created a basic cylinder mesh and inserted edges to mimic the overall shape of her coils.

Then, I made the cylinder a live surface so I could model directly on it. I used Quad Draw to draw rectangles around the surface of the cylinder, gradually spiraling upwards from the base. After this step, the Mesh resembled a spiral staircase, with blue rectangles traveling upwards along the cylinder.

With the flat spiral shape now available to me, I extruded it to make it 3D, and worked on the mesh until it looked more hair like. From there, it was simply rinse and repeat for the rest of the coils!

I'm especially proud of the stylized look of the end result. The face was challenging to make, especially going off of the 2D reference art I gathered of Gertrude. I like the level of detail on the model overall, because it's form is complex enough to communicate Gertrude's look without overcomplicating it and still retaining the cartoon-ish feel of 2D Gertrude.