Sketchbook - Calvin Bastian

calvinevan12

I'm trying to improve my anatomy knowledge and general sculpting skills.  This is my first study, I didn't count the amount of hours it took but it was done within 4 days. I'm not that fast, I know. I didn't put much details on the hair, only on the bangs, since that part is tedious and I don't think it will benefit me much on my anatomy study. 
I also made a little gif showing the different stages of the sculpt. At the first hours it looks really bad, but as I keep going she started to look nice and pretty. Feel free to let me know what you think of my sculpt, and feel free to criticize, it would help me a lot on improving.

Hope you have a great day!

Agelink

I think the model turned out really well! I can't see any issues that are really sticking out, however, I am wondering what your references are.
If you want to study anatomy it might be best to avoid heavy stylization and instead try to observe real life anatomical features.
Good luck!

calvinevan12

@Agelink Thank you! I have some real life people, but most are from other artist's sculpts since they're easier to find. Real life model is not currently possible for me though.  I realize that I should try to make it more realistic in the future, thanks for pointing it out!

EvilSylvanas

@calvinevan12
I like your model, it's pretty good ! I have some advice though, you said you're using sculpts of other artist as a reference for anatomy, but in my opinion it's really bad idea. Even the professionals do mistakes, or unable to capture all details. If you wanna study the anatomy, i would recommend using normal photos (the one that weren't photoshoped) 
Keep up the good work !

calvinevan12

@EvilSylvanas
Hi, thank you! Yes, I realize that mistake now, and has since been using real photos from 3d.sk. The site is truly a treasure chest for anatomy references. I'm slowly trying to fix my bad habits too. Thank you for the comment!

Chaduke

I really like the style, but you're going for more realistic or common it seems like you could just take everything above the hips and scale it up a bit.  My personal preference would be to add a little more tone in the biceps / triceps area.  If the style you're going for is to create a very visible contrast between the proportion of upper body to lower body then you did a great job, and like I said, I like that style.

calvinevan12

@Chaduke
Thank you! I think I can do that, the top part does feel a bit too small compare to the bottom. The biceps/triceps area does look a bit too thin now that I look at it again, thank you for pointing it out!

calvinevan12

This is my most recent study I did on sunday. I've been doing a couple others but this one has the best looking result. I was mostly using Asian women in my references. My goal was to, of course, improve my faces and proportion. I want to have a realistic proportions for the face while maintaining a stylized look. Something like the characters from the recent Final Fantasy games (?)

Critiques and feedbacks will be greatly appreciated! Cheers!

calvinevan12

This is another practice/study I just finished. 

calvinevan12

I figure I should update this thread after a while.

D.Va Bust
https://www.artstation.com/artwork/dOV00x
I wanted to improve my faces and face proportions with this project.


2B
Here I want to learn how to properly do hair cards and render both the hairs and skins on marmoset. I read and watch a lot of tutorials on these topics before finally achieving a result that I'm proud of. There's many more room for improvement, but right now it's a start. I still haven't started learning about the eyes. 

calvinevan12

I want to practice more hair cards and skin rendering. This looks much better than my previous attempts and I learns a lot from this. The eyes I'm still not sure about, I used  Vini Cortez's Ultimate Eye Generator for it, but it looks off. I'd like to improve more on it in the future.



This was the high poly:

EvilSylvanas

Looks very Impressive ! I like how i did hair on the latest post, on 2B though i think you should add a few more hair card to break the shape a liitle, but i'm also not a hair expert and i'm learning how to make proper hair on models myself.

calvinevan12

I made this project recently

Fanart of Hinata.

calvinevan12

I did anatomy practice recently

garriola83

looking good!

Fernando Tejada

power couple!   I think the anatomy on his back and legs looks a bit off imo, but nice job overall man

charlz

Looking good but I agree with Nandx, the tibia line is off for example.

calvinevan12

@garriola83 thank you!
@Nandx @charlz Thanks! I agree, those parts I had a hard time on. I'll try to improve those areas.

calvinevan12

I wasn't sure where I was going with this project. Here's what I got so far.

calvinevan12

I wanted to practice skin and hair texturing.

calvinevan12

Sanji WIP

I wanted to practice real-time hair again.

calvinevan12

Practice

calvinevan12

My first project of 2021. Sakura from the Naruto franchise. I've been practicing a lot in 2020 by making small projects that I ended up not finishing. This year I want to try and put together what I've learned last year and make a lot of cool new projects. This is the first one, I hope you like it!

https://www.artstation.com/artwork/zOoX5w