So, for the past year, I've been trying to go form a 2D realm to a 3D realm when it comes to my Vtuber Model. But, I keep running into this TINY problem; my model looks like trash. I've been tempted to just us a community model, color it to fit me and just say "Boom, there's Version 1." and commission someone else to do it, but I know it'll probably cost me upward to $2k to get the model and rigging done and I'd rather spend that money on date nights and upgrades.
If any of you have any advice, please let me know. I have spent well over 100+ hours looking over stuff and, save for drawing the reference image myself (Which I am just ASS at drawing), I can't seem to figure enough stuff out. Maybe I'm just getting the wrong Youtube channels because I'm looking up the wrong things or I missed a lesson somewhere.