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DustyShinigami said:

 I tried adding some noise to it before by including shapes/bumps within the main shapes, but then they became over-emphasized. Or was that the main shapes...? Maybe now I should go and re-add those shapes/noise now that the main shapes are softer and less emphasised...?

Hmm, I was trying to condense an abstract concept into a more concrete and practical advice, but am realizing that it was probably too reductive. The point I was attempting to make about the area marked up in red was that those secondary forms you added weren’t very “descriptive”. They don’t communicate any useful information about what is actually going on with the form and thus just makes that area difficult to “parse”.

That is what I meant about looking vague and lacking in clarity. It’s not necessarily about more versus less detail, but that any detail that is there should help describe something. I thought you had the right idea when you refined the scapula: you took it from a nondescript shape and molded it into something with form and function…but then you got rid of it in later iterations ?

I hope that makes (at least a little bit) of sense and clears up some confusion. And now that you’ve gotten a few pointers on how to approach secondary forms; I think you are at a good point to start doing a pass on the entire figure and then make a self-assessment to see how close or far you are to your goal with this study (which, by the way, is not meant to be a 1-to-1 translation?). I think that could help you (and people critiquing) see it in the greater context, rather than critiquing just a small part in isolation only to end up spinning your wheels too much.

Thank you guys for the kind words!

And no worry Dabou, I should've shown in the previous comments what concept I was following so no confusions would happen.

I slowed down in the end of the year but got back into studying and practicing earlier this yes.

I remade yet again my skull study and went a bit further by texturing in painter to also practice this skill.


I compared it to my other finished study I posted here a while ago:



I've also made some anatomy minor studies such as face features etc, and I just finished an orc that I planned to do as an sketch but got carried away and finished a sculpt + rendered him in marmoset:







That's about it, I plan to get a more serious when it comes to my studies and be more consistent, for my next steps I'm wondering if I should stick with small studies like these ones or try and make a new character project, like that dwarf, nothing too complex but something to practice the whole pipeline.

Hopefully I'll get an answer to that and you guys will just see what I make next, thank you for taking the time see my stuff, stay safe!

tks for the comments! will keep at it!

Hello everyone! i am trying to go with the Fortnite characters look, this is a first wip of the highpoly, would really appreaciate feedback if possible, thanks!

I'm not familiar with fort, night, but you can press 'p' to switch zbrush from orthographic to perspective mode for character sheets

Fallen Angel animated game ready character for Game Engines, 150 animations!
Video preview and renders https://www.artstation.com/artwork/rlPqK5

Modeling/animation/simulation and cloth rendering were done in Blender, with a preview video showing the model in Unity.

I based my work on several concepts. In my opinion, neural networks are still not very useful in this field. The only thing I used them for was the shape of the skull, which I actually like the least in this project.

I sketched the sword concept myself. The idea was to make a semi-copy of something so the character could throw it.