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It starts May 12, and ends Sept 12. Let's see what you got!
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Learning Zbrush
polycounter lvl 6
Hallo i just wont to post my work here on how i will Level with sculpt every critic and stuff is welcome ^_^
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Huge ears and lips? :P
You have a nice current basic shape I would now work on the finer details.
Also make sure to work with references always, they will keep you on track
pigart for references i will try to use them
Earthyn Yeah xD i did not notice it xD
Brian "Panda" Choi I trying to learn something if u did not notice it
Anyway i try to get the mouth and eyes in the good direction but for now i will use references and see where it go
Regardless, you should recreate the Asaro Planar head. Right now what you're pumping looks vaguely human, but without references, it just looks lumpy and not accurate to what a human bust would look like in real life.
Even if it was of a cartoon style, it's missing a lot of subtleties you would need from a proper anatomically sound bust.
As i model i try to learn by mistakes as i see on my first pic and the last its big change thou
Looking back, to me, all you really need to do is the following
1) Brushes: trimDynamic, clay buildup
2) Match the sculpt to the orthographic views
30 Get comfortable with Dynamesh and Zremesher, using them as needed to regain mesh uniformity.
Though I understand how the above is still too vague.
Youtube videos will basically have the same technique from above, though a lot focus on realistic faces. Just focus on recreating the Asaro head, because a lack of foundational knowledge of where the planes of the face are will make your realsitic sculpts look lacking in some annoyingly subtle ways. Hard to tell immediately if a structure sucks because of its foundation since the foundation is buried underneath meters of earth.
Long story short, literally just try to recreate the Asaro head. Push and pull like mad, and trimDynamic like mad, using Dynamesh to regain mesh uniformity. Dynamesh is the key here, it makes Zbrush act more like real clay than Mudbox. Mudbox lacks any ability to "reset" a mesh like that.
This is all without reference just practice my hand to get use to Zbrush and test some things
- DONT do stylized sculpts at the beginning - learn anatomy first (a lot of your sculpts look quite stylized, like the really big ears or the big lips).
- Do the asaro head and focus on the planes to get the shapes right
- Sculpt the majority of your time at a really low resolution - Only if it looks right at a low resolution it will look even better at a higher one, otherwise it will get really lumpy.
- Use a lot of reference. What helped me for the face was trying to sculpt an knwon actor, where you could find a lot of reference and try to mimic their likeness
- If you can somehwat draw, do anatomy studies on paper - studying the anatomy in different mediums helped me a lot to understand it
- Get the gumroad tutorials by Rafael Grasseti and by Frank Tzeng, they are awesome
- Last but not least, continue to practice regularily and a LOT
Good luck, sculpting is really awesome once you get a little bit used to it
I think most of us did an exact same thing with an exact thread like that too... some more than just one :P
Here's more Head Plane Stuff.
I am not done art school i started learning by my own imagination i started as 3d modeler in 3dsmax wile never know to model a ball but now i doing weapons so far in 3dsmax i will try my best to do in zbrush as i done in 3dsmax by everyday 1h its much of practice or 4h just do practice and i will reach my goal
http://www.meshmolder.com
Sculpting and Painting 3d software...very easy...
In that regard, this may be a starting point
http://www.anatomy4sculptors.com/
Cool what a nice website and the ebook awesome i found also good ebooks for sculpting i will read tomorrow and see where it leads tnx
After that, you can start adding large details and minor details. Like below.
Anyway, sculpting is like drawing in some ways.
Learn the basics first.
Its so so so so important to always be using reference, otherwise models and meshes will never look realistic. Even industry pro's , who have been modelling characters for years and probably modelled thousands of faces still use reference. Plus there's loads of great resources for free that have been linked here already, so go check 'em out
Copy this model, I'd like to see your results
@TECTONIC No i never use that but i find the thing that i need here take a look
http://polycount.com/discussion/134131/refboard-nifty-little-reference-viewer
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