Old Man Bust

penrod · Oct 2007

Hello all, I did this old man as an exercise to learn mudbox and character modeling. This is my first human head and one of my first mudbox models. There are a ton of amazing artists on this forum and I look forward to hearing any comments or critiques to make my work better.

Vitor · Oct 2007

Really nice. The pose, the skin, the cloths... great work there. Perhaps lacking some horizontal fold on the neck, seems to flat now.

And welcome to polycount, looking foward to see more stuff from you

monkeyboy_garth · Oct 2007

Holy crap, dude! That's amazing. First human head? Wow. What sort of stuff have you made in the past? Me likey velly much!

kakikukeko · Oct 2007

yeah for a first head, that's very promising

it's very nice and much more subtle than what I usully see...
I like it a lot .. no real crits from me. I just wanna see more

Will you texture it later?

MoP · Oct 2007

hehe, it's that old guy off 3d.sk! I recognise him, I did a lowpoly model and 256x256 texture based off him a couple of years ago

Pretty cool work. I'd probably try and push more depth into the mid-resolution details (some of the larger wrinkles could do with more definition for example), because at the moment it seems that only the large structures, and the tiny wrinkles and pores have the most definition.

Keep it up!

tremulant · Oct 2007

Very very nice, no crits, maybe finish the head and detail the back and top.

Mark Dygert · Oct 2007

welcome, and amazing work!

Daz · Oct 2007

Yeah that's good stuff. I recognised him straight away too

The thing that stands out to me, is that you have all this nice detail in the face, and an oddly smooth, absolutely featureless head. Beyond the borders of the face, there's an abrupt lack of definition. No bone, or bumps, veins, anything. Your ref had hair in the way of course, so If you intend to keep him bald, I'd check out some bald heads and at least get *some* surface undulation of the head. It just looks too smooth, especially at the sides there. Almost like one of those bald wigs.

http://www.darrinreed.com/BaldLook.html
http://www.flickr.com/photo_zoom.gne?id=204063573&size=o
http://www.flickr.com/photos/joskraaijeveld/1251261497/

Great work, welcome.

Sa74n · Oct 2007

might be the perspective but i think the ears are off. they are a little bit too low and too far on the back of the head.
otherwise its a nice sculpt especially as a first. what did you do before?

penrod · Oct 2007

@vitor - thanks for the crits. I plan on doing another sculpting pass on this guy, and i'll address the neck then

@monkeyboy_garth - I've been doing environment art, mainly props and whatnot

@kakikukeko - I might texture it later, but i did this mainly as a practice to learn digital sculpting.

@Mop - Good call on the head MoP, and thanks for the crits. I'll add some more depth and variation on my next sculpting pass. I'd like to see your version of this head if you still have it. I've been lovin your work lately.

@tremulant - thx!

@Vig - thx!

@Daz - I was hoping you would respond. I'm a big fan of your character work. Eventually i would like to learn how to model hair, but for now i may leave him bald and use your ref. Thanks!

@Sa74n - Thanks for the crits. I'll adjust the ears in my next pass. I'm currently doing environment props.

Spark · Oct 2007

Definetely nice Penrod, and welcome to the Dallas area! We have a Dallas Sketchgroup if you are interseted in going to it. We meet every sunday, and you can find out further info here at www.Dallassketchgroup.blogspot.com so I hope to see you there.

Spark

Old Man Bust

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