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Re: Feedback on 3D character model

Looking good

I think with the final asset, some of the forms of the sculpt got lost, in particular with the head. This probably in part due to the different lighting/ reflections between the matcap highpoly render and final render. It's up to you (or how you intend to render) to what extend you paint highlights into the textures or use a roughness and specular map, perhaps a combination. With the latter, the lighting situation is important to allow the maps to work.

Then you could also add some color zones to the face and add in some color variation in general.

Perhaps decrease brightness of eyes in a gradient going away from pupils, so the eyes appear less flat. Similar teeth when overly flashing.

Here is a rough overpaint, overlayed matcap for specularity/highlights, painted in reds on nose and ears, darkened eyes and teeth some, some slight blue on the lower face:

Keep it up!

Fabi_G

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Re: Feedback on 3D character model

Your character is solid!

when you say it isn't working, It might be helpful for you to put it into words what isn't feeling right.

I would honestly say though, try and wrap up this character and do another. This sort of thing you just need to do a lot of, and you will naturally improve.

Like if you were to say aim to do the next character in half the time, but maintain the quality, it would be a solid goal for you!

Muzzoid

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Stylized Common Chest

Hey everyone! I'm continuing my journey to learn stylized prop and environment creation, and I'm sharing my latest results with you. Here's my new small project: Stylized Common Chest. Please give it a look and let me know what you think! Any feedback on how I can improve in future projects would be greatly appreciated.
https://www.artstation.com/artwork/98zBAv?notification_id=7023130595

Image: https://us.v-cdn.net/5021068/uploads/editor/67/ppthjma7x71g.png

2met7cen

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Re: Feedback on 3D character model

clean work, this might help you imo https://help.steampowered.com/en/faqs/view/0688-7692-4D5A-1935

zetheros

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Re: Advice with secondary forms

"This is a lot to digest. There really should be some online courses that cover secondary forms; there are so many considerations and things to be aware of, it could very easily be its own topic..."

Actually, Scott Eaton one of the founding artists behind digital sculpture had authored many of the fundamental concepts/principles you're currently grappling with for example - Anatomy for Artists I might also add peer review offered thus far is quite exceptional and as a point of reference I'd say your journey has imo gotten off to a great start, so keep at it. One other thing I'll mention is that mental health issues prevail throughout the creative sphere irrespective of medium, in my mind perhaps endeavoring upon a targeted artistic pursuit one will initially as an untutored novice resort or attempt to define their self worth via ones creative ability however without going into further depth beyond the scope of this thread, in terms of agreement totally side with @Muzzoid response above.

sacboi

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Re: Adobe raises price of Photoshop 50%

I honestly really like Krita, for 3D art I don't think you need much else: it has filters, masks, easy to use UI, symmetry, lazy mouse, etc. Some people seem to think that it's just for illustration for that's not the case, though even if it has some vector functionality it's not the thing I'd use for graphic design like UI elements probably. Inkscape is a thing and it's free but I haven't used it too much.

Ruflse

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Re: Advice with secondary forms

Muzzoid said:

Hey man, you are putting in the hard yards, you ARE putting in the effort and time, and for the most part you are doing well. You are RIGHT on the cusp of leveling up, it's just going to take stepping back and considering the process a bit. I also apologize if I've been a little blunt here.

Let me see if i can break this down a bit better, when I'm talking about art being about perception, I'm not talking about some abstract concept of looking harder. your brain is literally doing signal processing on everything you see and interpreting it. Your brain is literally changing how it processes information when studying art.

The mechanism which our perception gets better is a ratchet. You make a perception, you then check that perception and prove that it was wrong. Every time this happens, your perception improves. The point of external feedback is not to give you theory, (you can get theory from any ol book or video), you are renting our perceptions in order to drive your attention to the areas you didn't know needed attention, which drives this loop.

That's all a bit abstract. So let me put this in practical terms. The pattern I always see with students, is I give a paint-over, pointing out something. Then most of the time they do an iteration, but it's applying the concept in a limited way.
What you want to do instead, is instead take the advice and apply it as strongly as you can. How can you capitalize on an external perception as much as possible.

My advice of varying the edges of the form, you just applied it to the one point of the form. What if you instead went to every single form, and added crazy variation of edge hardness. TRY and take it too far. Really get under the skin of what the commenter was trying to get at.

Okay. I also have to apologise if I seem a little too sensitive, which I am anyway, though probably more-so at the moment due to mental health issues, low self-esteem/confidence, new medication I'm taking and its side effects, and family issues. I can get de-motivated very easily and I often feel I just annoy other people with my constant posts/messages. Plus, I can sometimes feel others don't explain things clearly in a way that I understand and then they decide to say no more if I still haven't grasped their input, which really frustrates me. ^^; In other words - not everyone has the patience to deal with me. But I do appreciate and respect every piece of advice/feedback I get.

The explanation about perception is a lot for my brain to properly digest, but I think I get what you're saying. Hopefully. The last three paragraphs make the most sense. ^^; And funnily enough, that's what I was doing last night whilst working on it. I was adding this edge variation to as many places as possible using the two references. And only using a Clay Buildup brush to add and subtract.

DustyShinigami

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Re: Advice with secondary forms

Feels like the critique already given either stayed relevant or become relevant again.

Like this part, based on @Muzzoid's advice about edge variety, was an improvement (in my amateur eyes), but then you seem to have undone it in later iterations: