Sketchbook: boj

omglawl

Hello.

It's been a few years since my last visit to polycount forums. Today I found my old account with this silly username, so I thought it won't hurt to create a sketchbook thread.
So let it be. Critique appreciated.

I've been working on a project for some time now. I did two sculpts for it, the first one didn't work out for me, so I decided to do a new one.

Here's the first sculpt, sorry for low-resolution.


The new one was better, so I gone further with it. Here's the latest render of it.


It's far from finished, and I don't really know if I'm going to finish it at all.

If anybody is interested I can post some older stuff.

robertg

maybe its my computer, but i cant see the image you posted? and we'd love to see your older stuff!

omglawl

It's not your computer, it was my fault, I'm sorry, I hope it works now.

robertg

oh man, now that i can see your first image i want to see some of your other work even more!

omglawl

These are mainly some fast renders, or the ones I did just for fun, otherwise I'd just leave it in ZBrush.

Nut

nice work man, you have some strong anatomical understanding
the African boy looks greate
do you render all these in zbrush? i just can't figure out how to render background in zbrush, any advice?

omglawl

I don't render it in ZBrush. If you want some decent renders you might render it in external programs. Decimate your model, export it, set up some basic lighting and you're ready to go.
Under the Lights tab there's a "Background" tab, or under the "Document" tab you can change background colours.

omglawl

I haven't sculpted anything for a few weeks now, so today I had some free time to dedicate to sculpture. I decided to do a quick bust of Voltaire by Bernini just to get used to ZBrush again.

[Deleted User]

Amazing! your models are very realistic! can you advise me on how to study anatomy? I'm starting to use zbrush

omglawl

Well, I can only tell you how I started to study it. I'd recommend you to purchase these two great books:
-Anatomy: A Complete Guide for Artists by Joseph Sheppard
-Human Anatomy for Artists: The Elements of Form by Eliot Goldfinger
Later on start building your first human skeleton, bone by bone. Then cover it with muscles. You'll reach the point where it'll be about iteration and a lot of work.

omglawl

On the way of creating the sculpt of Voltaire I got two different yet the same characters, with some Voltaire likeness, and I really like them.

denz3d

Great stuff, like the ecorche' & the little girl has some nice form going on.

omglawl

WIP.

omglawl

Another WIP.

omglawl

So here we go.

Early skin shader. I need to fix lips and nose area. Let the fun part begin (:

omglawl

Slowly progressing with the skin material, still a lot of work has to be done.

robertg

looking solid man, the skin is really coming along nicely

omglawl

So I had some time today to try a new method of building a skin shader.

gonzo_3d

Nice work. Looks like you've been working hard somewhere, it shows in your control of the tools and form.

omglawl

^Thanks.

I've deleted two previous pics, since they were really terrible. So there's a new version of skin shader. Sorry for low-res picture, I might post some high-res pics soon.

omglawl

Rough sketch.

omglawl

omglawl

Sonne: Lamp Concept

CIB

great work, very nicely presented.

omglawl

^Thanks.

Did a fast sculpt, inspired by Scott Eaton's Orge design.

omglawl

Haven't sculpted anything for a month or so. Had some time yesterday to finally open ZBrush and do something.

omglawl