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I'm making an anvil and while the wireframe of the mesh looks fine, there are weird artifacts near the base of the anvil that I can't seem to get rid of (I tried recalculate normals and merge by distance).

The problem is exacerbated in lookDev, where I'm getting an odd, swirled stretching effect.

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You have ngons (faces with more than 4 vertices). Try to avoid that, especially on twisted surfaces. Just join the vertices with J to make quads.

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You also have faces overlapping like these ones. Delete them but also the ones underneath because sometimes the face is large as 2 faces. Here again make sure that you have quads.

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Adding to moonboots's answer, make sure to disable the Subsurf modifier for the Edit Mode, otherwise you'll have a hard time fixing your mesh.

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Another issue is that your normals are mostly inverted. Enable Face orientation in the Overlays menu, as shown below; then, in edit mode, make sure all the faces are coloured blue. You can change a face's colour (that is, their normal's orientation) by selecting it and pressing Alt + N > Flip.
(N.b. You can flip multiple face's normals at once).

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  • $\begingroup$ Edit: the keyboard shortcut for the normals menu is alt + N. $\endgroup$
    –  Cari Berry
    May 3, 2020 at 14:15
  • $\begingroup$ Oh, my bad. Edited it. $\endgroup$
    – impresso
    May 3, 2020 at 18:03

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