I'm currently working through the Fundamentals of Lighting Course and there's a recommendation to create a community progress thread. So here we go.

I'll start by posting a few recent works, and take it from there.

Importdoesn'twork

I got started with mine this morning. Detailed models will be coming soon. Just sit tight and wait for the surprises. 

I've been at this for hours and to no avail.   I am trying to texture paint a symbol on the motorcycle body, which is quite complex with many materials for its many parts, using a stencil.  I create a new material, then add a texture slot and then assign a texture to the brush but when I paint, it either doesn't appear at all, or its off the charts as you can see here - the blue curve at the upper right.

I understand the process and can easily apply this image when I start a new file and apply it to a cube, etc.  But I cannot apply it to the motorcycle.  I assume this means there is something about the selection process or UV mapping that I am missing.  Just not sure.

Just starting. Finished my rocket and created a copy of my fidget cube as my first unassisted render.

Here's my primitive exercise.

I made 2 simple examples. The first is a Pyramid Cottage consisting of a cube and cone. The second is a dome structure consisting of a single isosphere.  I got the most out of building the dome structure. It was not until viewing this lesson that I realize that a uv-sphere is a quad and a isosphere is a trik. I’ve been trying to figure out for years how to build a dome structure. Only to realize, all I needed was an isosphere.

I’ve been away from Blender for 4 years focusing my attention on building the spherical (360x180) panoramas used as backgrounds and HDR photography. 4 years ago I got myself to the intermediate level. Now that I’m back, I find myself not only getting reacquainted with blender but learning a new interface.  Not realizing there was a 2.8 track, I’ve been working in the 2.7 tracks and converting 2.7 to 2.9. Even to the point of doing the tire and rim project in 2.7. I’m finding it a lot easier to start from the beginning in this track and work my way up.