A sculpt or drawing a day

SanderDL

Hiya,

I'm thinking about punching out a Zbrush sculpt or some kind of drawing everyday. I just want to get better at this stuff.


Stuff so far:

A 15 min mouth, afwards I got the idea to do this everyday


A head I did this morning. Does anyone else has this habbit of always tending to make old people?



Ok I'll see if can do some more sculpts today or otherwise tomorrow.


PS: feel free to PM me or something if I don't post each day

MrOneTwo

Mouth = 2 inflated sasuages ? ;] Make yourself a base mesh going inside the mouth. Then you can sculpt on it. Sculpting on a flat surface works when you at least know the brushes. Old man looks like he is melting. Use more referance. Muscles, bones, skin. You have to know how it works to be able to sculpt something realistic. Waiting for tomorrow sculpts.

PS don't subdivide the mesh until you are not able to do anything else on the subd level you are at the moment. Use move tool on fairly low poly mesh and work on proportions and form then subdivide.

SanderDL

Hey thanks for the tips. I have been looking at reference images but I find it hard to follow them correctly. I suppose this gets better once I do it more. Also is there anyway to keep reference open while working in Zbrush? ALT-TABing isn't really working too well.

MrOneTwo

If you dont have second monitor use xnviews always on top function. Zbrush 4 has spotlight which can do stuff like putting referance on your canvas. Less work space but with referance. Too be honest i never used spotlight. Only heard of it ;] Xnview should do the trick though.

http://www.phungdinhdung.org/Studies_paper/Realistic_face_modeling.shtm - some cool stuff

SanderDL

The harvest of the day!



Updated the old man a bit. I tried keep in the mind the skull and the muscles but it's indeed hard to do on a higher detail level. I'll keep in mind to start slow next time.

Joopson

Ah, on this last one, the eyes are too high up on the skull.
I was going to say you go high too fast, but you've realized it.
So, I look forward to seeing you progress!