well i am a cinema 4d modeler and a newbie though my process is detailed form some of my art theroy and process is a bit hard to explane though i will go through it if you want ... first i start out with brain storming and tinkering around , which normaly consists of a pencil in my hand and my sketch book or one of my many sketch books , i always am drawing something , at bus stop's , when i sit down for a minute any time in the day and nearly any place.. secondly once i find a sketch i like i begin to draw it multiple times , over diffent sides and views of the same object over and over , still on papper and my pencil in my hand , to capture what i see it is , mostly useing 3 point perspective form the flat image i roughed out befor next i take a look all over the web and through books i have here on my bookshelfs for refrance materals or other designs that have been in the same genera and i save all of the images into a project catalog , normaly there very good for ideas of detailing and texturing later. then i begin consitruction of the model , useally form the largest object or largest base within the model and bratch off form that. then i go into detailing form that when bratching out in diffent areas , wile studing it ,pondering it , and refuring many many times to my own sketches i started with. and then i go into the process of texturing which normaly i texture a model multiple times , removeing the shades i dont like or tweaking them until its pleasing to my own eye . ------- and the type of modeling i do is structural or mechanical modeling in a sci fi like genera for now ,though i hope to brantch out eventually and get the hang on organic modeling , but sence i am staring out still learning C4d alot of the accuall modeling process is tral and error , so i want to get down to where i feel i am decent at this stage , and then move onto the organics side this is the only image so far i have done to my satifaction in c4d , though so far i have had many models i have scraped or put on the shelf for later , because my skills are to lakeing to get some of the angles and effects i want , without it looking compleatly glued togeather... but hey we all start out somewhere