Just finished the low poly queen model, here she is:
Avoided creating non-planar faces by using the ‘triangulate faces’ tool around the two surrounding face loops, before subdividing the upper edge loop and pulling the middle vertex down. Then as a little bit of polish I extruded the edge of the upper ring; wasn’t a fan of the razor sharp edge!
And here’s a render of the chess set so far:
I’m pretty happy with the marble look I managed to get from using procedural textures on the board! How’s everyone else doing with this section?