Sketchbook: GenericGoodGuy

GenericGoodGuy

Hello, I've been practicing 3d art for 1 month and 2 weeks now, I did some work a few years ago but stopped due to various reasons but now I'm back and eager to improve. Critique is welcome for future improvement.

No reference used, just trying to get a feel for Zbrush



More head practice, I tried to use reference for this one but I don't understand the structure of the skull/face yet.



I love doing cartoon style models, so here is one of Spongebob, first I sculpted in Zbrush and polypainted to see how it would look -

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I decided to make a full character model from my Zbrush sculpt but I don't like how it turned out but learned from it.

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I wanted to make a wizard but I lack imagination, so I came up with this -

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This is meant to be a pigeon -

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This is a model of a character I found in an inspiration folder from someone on Polycount, honestly it looks nothing like it due to lack of skill, it's from a game I assume called 'Moops so technically I made fan-art. - https://www.dropbox.com/sh/e4sywjlj4e5tjpw/tB4imROogV/characters/cartoony#f:GenFemale01.jpg - <- that's the original.

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This is a character I made based on the concept by http://www.mogibo.com/

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This is Grim the ghoul..creative name I know, my first original character.

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This is Giggi, he's a jester/mage thing, inspired from multiple different images.

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Updated my model with a new staff..more of a jester feel.

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Jester, I modified Giggi (my last model) to look more like a jester.

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Leonardo Da vinci (Stewies ancestor)

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This is Cha Cha from Monster hunter, fan art

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A couple of models..I try to complete a project every time I have free time.

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Some recent work -







And my very latest - Studying anatomy...It's confusing

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More practice.



On this face I tried following reference but I can't see any land marks to go from...need more practice - doesn't help that I find humans so boring and get distracted and doodle.

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Trying my hand at Props/environment art -

Yedp

Hey I'm trying to learn anatomy as well, that's definitly not an easy task, thought I'd share a website I found really useful, maybe you know it:
Anatomy for Sculptors

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Yedp wrote: »

Hey I'm trying to learn anatomy as well, that's definitly not an easy task, thought I'd share a website I found really useful, maybe you know it:
Anatomy for Sculptors

Thanks, someone showed it me a few days ago but thanks for taking the time to reply.

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I'm starting to really enjoy creating assets, I burned myself out working on an environment so I'm taking a break and modeling assets for a bit.

Modeled two assets today first -

Post office box



I'm not happy with how the top part came out, it looks like it's all plastic/melted (smoothing groups) but I'll learn from that mistake.



Second asset - a Street light



After texturing the light part of this asset I discovered a better way to texture the metal parts of it, which is why there's a mismatch in texture quality wont make the same mistake again.

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Monster egg - found the reference from an inspiration folder posted by a Polycount user -

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/e4sywjlj4e5tjpw/c-QZZpCBYj/environment/flash_game_concepts_01_by_dinmoney-d46dkp4.jpg

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Haven't updated in a while due to moving into college 2nd year but now I'm used to it and I'm currently on a week break. Here's some work-

I did this for a 3 week challenge, I did it in 2 days which resulted in poor quality but I got to test out a few things I've learnt and I'll make another full body character again later.


Not really happy with this, I didn't use reference and wish I did. I find it hard to find good reference for faces.


This is my attempt at the previous noob challenge but never got around to finishing the lighting.




This is my most recent piece, I used the reference of a dwarf and used a bit of my imagination.



Does anyone know any good websites with human faces on?

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Continuing to work on heads.



Thought I'd try using spot light to paint the reference I was using onto this sculpt to see how everything matched up. The eyes were a bit off and so was the mouth.

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robertg

keep up the portraiture work man, definitely improving. if you have the chance, you should look up a john assaro head and try sculpting it, or at least using it in conjunction with your other reference.

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robertg wrote: »

keep up the portraiture work man, definitely improving. if you have the chance, you should look up a john assaro head and try sculpting it, or at least using it in conjunction with your other reference.

Thanks - Ah! I remember downloading it from here, some kind person took tons of pictures of it and let anyone download it but I completely forgot about it. I'll be sure to use it from now on, thanks.

robertg

no problem man, I'm pretty sure i have the same set of images lol, they deff helped me a ton.

paulchen83

Hi, i've a human anatomy model i'm giving away for people to use as reference. And a Polypainted eye starter kit for people who wanna focus on sculpting. you can find it in my sketchbook thread. I understand what u mean when u say sculpting humans are boring. You have a very imaginative mind and have lots of potential in doing cartoony and stylized characters, i hear that a lot from people with good taste and art sense, but you still need to go thru the grind to do loads of study to turn that potential into greatest, so i guess, hang in there. I really like the jester mage character you created, that quirky sense of humor hidden beneath it....i wish people say that to me more often when i was starting out, but keep up the good work!!!

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paulchen83 wrote: »

Hi, i've a human anatomy model i'm giving away for people to use as reference. And a Polypainted eye starter kit for people who wanna focus on sculpting. you can find it in my sketchbook thread. I understand what u mean when u say sculpting humans are boring. You have a very imaginative mind and have lots of potential in doing cartoony and stylized characters, i hear that a lot from people with good taste and art sense, but you still need to go thru the grind to do loads of study to turn that potential into greatest, so i guess, hang in there. I really like the jester mage character you created, that quirky sense of humor hidden beneath it....i wish people say that to me more often when i was starting out, but keep up the good work!!!

It's you! I've been visiting your thread every time you post an update (near enough) I think you're a brilliant artist and keep hoping for an update of you getting a job. So you can imagine how happy you've made me feel from those kind words, thanks man. Also I'm starting to enjoy sculpting humans

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My first attempt at modeling a monster, I learnt a valuable lesson - always make teeth a separate subtool.

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Hey long time no update, well here's two pieces that are finished-





I also tried my hand at 2d...I think it went well, obviously I have a lot to learn but it's a start.