Blender 3D Dungeon - Help with the workflow

[Falconius]

I think that looks good. Nicely done!

The reason to use modifiers as opposed to the tools in edit mode is simply that modifiers are non-destructive/non-permanent, and if you want them to be permanent you can apply them. This offers the advantages of generally keeping the mesh lower poly count and easier to edit and alter. It also lets you see what is going on or going to occur without actually doing anything to the mesh. Sometimes you want to use the edit tools sometimes the modifiers but more often than not a combination of both.

Another good thing is that you are essentially building up an asset library which can be shared with different Blender files. For instance if you wanted to use a chest, or one of the lamp stands in a new scene you can append them from this blend file whilst in object mode (under the file menu), and they'll come in with all the material shaders, modifiers etc. Indeed you can append just materials or other blocks of data without bringing anything else in.

Anyways, enjoy the cat break

[Levtrona]

I think that looks good. Nicely done!

The reason to use modifiers as opposed to the tools in edit mode is simply that modifiers are non-destructive/non-permanent, and if you want them to be permanent you can apply them. This offers the advantages of generally keeping the mesh lower poly count and easier to edit and alter. It also lets you see what is going on or going to occur without actually doing anything to the mesh. Sometimes you want to use the edit tools sometimes the modifiers but more often than not a combination of both.

Another good thing is that you are essentially building up an asset library which can be shared with different Blender files. For instance if you wanted to use a chest, or one of the lamp stands in a new scene you can append them from this blend file whilst in object mode (under the file menu), and they'll come in with all the material shaders, modifiers etc. Indeed you can append just materials or other blocks of data without bringing anything else in.

Anyways, enjoy the cat break

For the modifiers, that absolutely makes sense. I will have to watch a lot tutorials.
The asset lib is really handy, also i think you can use different assest as instances, so i would not have 20 chest but only one on different positions. when changing the original, they all change. Very mathematically. Basic understanding of programming helps a lot in Blender.

I have seen your work on Art Station, beautiful. The sculpting in Blender is awesome and very intuitive, so much fun to play around.