Sketchbook: MrSocks

MrSocks

Hey there,

My name is Zac. I've been lurking for a while and decided it was time I get involved.

I've been teaching myself for the past year and a half, and working mainly in Zbrush since last May. During that time I've found myself gravitating towards character art, so that's what I've decided to focus on.  I look forward to getting involved and sharing my progress here.

**Critique and Comments are welcome**

If you're interested, I can also be found at the following:
https://www.artstation.com/stocksz
https://www.instagram.com/stocksdigitalart
https://www.twitter.com/ThatsMrSocks

MrSocks

I signed up for Shane Olson's 3D Character Workshop about a week ago.

This is my WIP version of his Male Bust mini-course. 




Original concept by Luigi Lucarelli:

MrSocks

Updated this guy today based on feedback I received. Ended up making his eyes less bulgy. Adjusted the shape of his chin and cheekbones to break up some lines a bit.  And made the jawline a bit more refined.



Decided to call this one done.  I feel like I learned a lot from it, and I'm excited to start the next project.  Final Zbrush pose and render below.

Taylor Brown

I love this!

MrSocks

Thanks @crawl glad you like it!

MrSocks

Started work on my first full figure done for Shane's workshop.  The original concept art is by Max Grecke.

Here's my progress on the blockout so far.  Feel like it's pretty close, the forearms are giving me trouble though. May have to redo them.

Taylor Brown

How much is Olson's workshop? I cant seem to find a link on his site.

MrSocks

I couldn't either til he opened it up for enrollment this last time.  It was ~$700 (not sure if that's subject to change or not).

MrSocks

Some in-progress shots of the Young Reaper character.

Pretty rough at this stage. Still figuring out the arms and having some trouble getting the head and face to a good place.

Original concept by: Max Grecke

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Making some more progress on the Reaper. Feel like I'm starting to get close.  Have a few areas that need to be cleaned up, and the hands need to be redone, but it's coming together!


Original Concept by: Max Grecke

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Was out of commission for a while working on other projects, and dealing with getting sick, but I'm back to work on my reaper character now.
Getting close to calling him done.  Here's the result of the first pass of posing.  As always, any critique or comments are welcome.

Original concept (Left) by: Max Grecke

MrSocks

Updated the pose based on some feedback and took some time to learn about compositing.
All that's left to do now is retopology for a game-ready mesh.

Taylor Brown

It turned out great, good call on rotating the head.

MrSocks

crawl said:

It turned out great, good call on rotating the head.

Thanks Crawl

I ended up doing a few more tweaks and decided to make a version that matched the concept art as closely as I could.  I'm officially calling his hi-res and render done. Now I just need to finish the retopo!

MartinCi_01

Nice, now I want to make something in the same style.

allknighter

Cool concept and great rendition.
Good job!

lotet

Amazing work, Love the style! 

MrSocks

Thanks everyone for your kind comments!

After spending a long time on the reaper character, I decided it would be best to take a step back and do a quick bust.  I'm aiming to finish him up tomorrow, but in the mean-time here's a quick progress shot.

Original concept art by: Johannes Helgeson -- Wasteland 2 Fan-art

MrSocks

Finished up the Murray Daniels bust.  It was nice to do a shorter project again. Now onto the next one! 

-Original concept art by Johannes Helgeson.

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Alternate color scheme I did for the Murray Daniels bust.

MrSocks

Started work on a new character.  Feel like he's coming along pretty well.

Original Priest concept art by "Biboun" Christophe Fossard.

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Been working on some other stuff for a bit, but I'm back to the Priest. Here's some updated screens.

Parts that are still pretty rough:
- Skirting
-Hair (not very happy with how uniform it looks right now)
-Items hanging from waist wrap (sash, rope, satchel)

Quick BPR closeup of his face


Front and side view of the Priest's face


Basic front view of everything to this point


Side and 3/4 view

MrSocks

Here's another update on the Priest. 5/25/18.

I'm nearly done with the Hi-rez. Here's what I've got left:
-Clean up area around eyes.
-Fix up Cross necklace (it looks a little weird right now.
-Detail hair








I'm quite happy with how the hands turned out, so I decided to include a couple close-up shots of them.




Thanks for taking the time to look!

MrSocks

Been a while since I've posted here.  Had a rough couple of months and decided to go back to fundamentals and try to really build up a better artistic foundation.  Here's a quick little Fishman bust that I've been tooling around with as a practice piece.