Decided to play around with stylized PBR, and used my newest hobby as inspiration! Made a cute pickleball paddle modeled after the Big Dill Paddle I used to learn how to play. Used Blender and Zbrush to block out and sculpt the details for the handle. Retopology and the paddle model were both done in Blender. Painted details using mostly Substance Painter, with some Photoshop use for cleanup. Rendered out using Marmoset Toolbag 3.

Provided a really fun canvas for testing out stylized techniques after working exclusively with realism for a while. Thanks to everyone who provided feedback, as well as Zachary Olson and Eleanore Falck for sending me tons of tutorials on stylized art!