Sketchbook: HarlequinWerewolf (Skull Cat 3D)

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Hi! My name's Leah and I'm a student of Animation and VFX and I've decided I need to really push myself this year before I graduate! So I'm learning ZBrush and Maya as well as trying other software like Nuke, 3D Coat and Substance Painter. I would like to get into game character development so any and all critique is super appreciated! 

The Faun High Poly Sculpt




I also did a little process gif so I could keep an eye on how I was working



The Unicorn High Poly Sculpt

carvuliero

Keep doing what you doing for someone who just started with zbrush your work look promising 
Faun end up looking pretty nice even there are quite a few things that can be improve on her anatomy
I think you should do another try closer to your concept art (really like her face shape in your concept art )
If you are serious about character design will be a good idea to  get some proper education - books/video tutorials/mentor what ever works for you , as you already have solid drawing skills wont be that hard for you to transition to 3d

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@carvuliero Thank you! I do need to sit down and read through some books as well as video tutorials. I'm hoping to run by the sculpts with a lecturer at university soon but right now we have a brief that is pretty time consuming. I might come back to the faun, but I have a habit of just leaving things

In other news, despite being busy... I've been working on blocking in a mermaid called Elara. The wonderful concept art is by Nikhil Shinde and you can see it here: https://www.artstation.com/artwork/LQ1El I fell in love with the piece and really want to push myself by sculpting in pose. There's still lots to fix and I'll probably do a paintover before I continue.

carvuliero

Good for you .Definitely traditional sculpting can teach you a lot more then digital tutorials also if I ware you I would prioritize what important for me as for university schedule goes and not spend much time on "required subject" that I have not interest in (for example if you want to be character artist doesn't make much sense to study architecture and environment art at least in the begging , when master one subject you can expend to another )
If I may suggest you using block like shapes (primitives) to block your shapes - much easier to keep symmetry and proper volume distribution - working is straight line could be easier then curve , just like in academic drawing

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@carvuliero Wow, thank you so much! This piece is definitely going to be a learning curve for me so I'll need to keep at it. I did start with primitives but I think I started shaping them too soon before I had all the proportions right. 

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Sadly I haven't had time to actually do much lately cos of deadlines and stuff and I can't even post images from that because I signed an NDA Anyway, here's a minor update on Elara, mostly just on her face.

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I've had a little time the last few days so I pulled together some sketches for a demon character called Vex. I want to use her to practice a full 3D game ready model with hand painted textures. 



And a REALLY rough T-Pose



I haven't done colours yet so I want to mess around with that this week as well as maybe pulling together an expression sheet. 

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Messing around with colours

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@Erisian Thank you so much! I am still very new to all of this and I have a lot to learn but it means a lot heading that I'm doing well I feel like your own work on your sketchbook is ahead of mine! I really need to learn how to do realism

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Pretty much done with the sculpt on Elara, going to try and polypaint her in the next couple of days now that I have a little time.

Yedp

Really awesome for someone starting with zbrush! I think my first sculpts were all looking like blobs haha.
Keep up the good work!

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@Yedp Thank you so much! I'm hoping when I look back at this thread in a year I'll see an improvement

In other news, I finished Elara! Took longer than I wanted cos life got int he way and I really think I'll need to upgrade to ZBrush 4R8 soon but hey, Core will do for now. Check it out on ArtStation: https://www.artstation.com/artwork/2o44v

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I fancied doing a little bust when I have 30 mins to spare so I started work on Kida from Atlantis: The Lost Empire yesterday.





I have no idea how I'm going to do her fringe in Core... 

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Did a quick thing in between the many other things I need to finish but ya know.... I wanted to try and practice some anatomy but it turned into a little bust of an old painting of mine:



https://www.artstation.com/artwork/oDZmq 

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Started blocking in my #Retrogasm2018 entry today for Zoe Payne from SSX Tricky and set up a topic over here: http://polycount.com/discussion/200131/wip-retrogasm-2018-zoe-payne-ssx-tricky#latest  as well.

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Doing a quick paintover of what Zoe's outfit might look like. This is a mix of a few ideas. I might change the wrist/arm guards later on

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Working on stuff for university, I have no free time

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Also, I never finished my Retrogasm 2018 entry but I did get as far as finished retopo. I hope to come back to it soon when I get some free time again

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Gonna try do something different with the textures on this when I get some time

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Had a play with textures and actually quite like how this turned out!

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Putting my demon, Vex on hold for the ArtStation challenge, but pretty much finished with her high poly, just needs one more detail pass

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Working on my entry for the 3D Bust Challenge on Sketchfab. Finished the sculpt so on to retopo and unwrapping then finally doing the hand painted part of the challenge!

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Finished up my entry for the 3D Bust Challenge tonight. Not sure if I'm gonna tweak anything but pretty happy with the final outcome

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And I used Marmoset for the first time too!

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Working on Catra from the new Netflix SheRa.

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Finished up Catra, ready to move onto other stuff now

More images and Marmoset viewer here: https://www.artstation.com/artwork/zA55P2

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Trying to drag a character out of my imagination. But I am having fun playing around with building a character from scratch!

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Created a Star Fair for MinionsArt's Sketchfab Gradient Challenge. Only gradients to texture and a 64x64 texture sheet

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Digging up an old project and trying to get it game ready High poly pretty much finished

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Been messing around with a little Deet fan art from the Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance at lunch times. Gonna do a rough retopo and do some cute painterly texture. Hopefully get a couple of subtle animations in too

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Finished up Deet. More here: https://www.artstation.com/artwork/k43AQA

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I finished Vex! Woooooo!
More on ArtStation: https://www.artstation.com/artwork/nQPDR9
Polycount Thread: https://polycount.com/discussion/199623/wip-vex-demon-character#latest

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My small contribution to Spooky Month

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Working on a little fan art of Rhys from Tales from the Borderlands (cos I can't get that game out of my head) And I'm trying to set it up for print



I'll also do a PBR textured version (hopefully with some blendshapes) for my portfolio

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I took my Rhys project and used him to test out Dynamic Wrinkle Maps in UE4! You can check out my blog post here about how I did it





And check out the full project over on ArtStation

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Working on a sculpt for Dave Cave Draws draw this in your style. Just some tidying then going to pose and paint her in ZBrush, something I don't do very often...

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Finished up my sculpt for Dave Cave Draws Draw this in Your Style Challenge. https://www.artstation.com/artwork/Bm4qxk

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Ouroboros sculpt and render: https://www.artstation.com/artwork/baeEVo

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High Poly of my current project. It's kinda scary doing stuff outside of your comfort zone but it's been loads of fun!!!

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Making a buff mermaid cos I can!

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Finished my buff mermaid! Check it out here: https://www.artstation.com/artwork/1nmGgL

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Finally made some realtime hair! My first attempt is somewhere in this thread and it is terrible! Love seeing how far I've come.

Full project here: https://www.artstation.com/artwork/qA48GN

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Made another mermaid! This time for the Danny Mac 3D Challenge. Check out the project here: https://www.artstation.com/artwork/oAX2NW

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https://youtu.be/lbfZrh2XhPM

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Project I started in Feb/Mar now with LEGS
https://www.artstation.com/artwork/J9v8l0

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Messing around with lighting before I go back to texturing

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Finished up my Unholy project. More pics and breakdowns here: https://www.artstation.com/artwork/nYdrLE

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Made myself a female base using bits of other projects. It's an upgrade from the last base I was using but it still needs some love. Hopefully keep building at it as I use it

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Working on a Lohse Fan Art. Thread over here: https://polycount.com/discussion/222528/lohse-fan-art-divinity-original-sin-2-wip#latest

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My little Halloween Devil Girl I finished up yesterday. Check out more pics and turn here: https://www.artstation.com/artwork/bKOYrk