Start drawing. Draw things you see in real life. Draw every day. Look at books on how to draw humans, and add their techniques into your drawings. Repeat. Drawing is a fundamental skill, which will improve all your other art skills. There are 3d artists who don't know how to draw, but the ones who do draw get better…
This one is good for skin wrap: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QSzWg7aF5Zw As for Zbrush posing I don't know of any. You don't need to bother with the Zrig. Posing now in ZB should be a lot easier since you can use the new gizmo. If your topology is flowing edgeloops you can ctrl+drag a mask and it will follow the topo.…
For item 1, this all stems from daily drawing practice. Just draw things that you see in the world around you. Anything that strikes your fancy, draw it. Inside of the commuter train you take to get to school. A tree on the street. Someone's ear. Buy or make a sketchbook and draw, draw, draw. Your ability will only grow if…
Did you use a reference for this drawing? The first thing I learned during my Observational drawing class was to draw what I see and not what I think it should be. I used to draw faces/bodies without references but just the way I think what they should look like and I thought, wow "I was good" hahaha..this is coming from…
For a long time I found women easier to draw/sculpt because of the rythm of the body, especially the hips. It served as a starting point for me to figure out the rest of the drawing. Nowadays I find no peculiar difficulty in either sexes. I think it's generally true that people struggles less with depicting their own body.…
at this stage i would recommend blocking in colour; it'll help with grouping details and getting proportions right; you can drag your concept in as a texture, apply it to a plane, then colour sample the texture (shortcut c) and go from subtool to subtool, rbg > fill
Hey guys, I've used XSI for ... wow a long time now. About 4 years. Anyway. I've decided I want to go to Full Sail for their Game Art degree (finally some official training :D ) and I've learned they use Maya there. So in anticipation, I've started messing around with it. I've heard XSI is pretty similar to Maya, but so…
Hey all! After watching the amazing Drew Struzan Hellboy poster DVD... [ame] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cf-xlYvR1CY[/ame] ... I have been inspired to try my hand at projection techniques for illustration. Basically : projecting an enlarged loose sketch to a clean surface in order to refine an illustration further (as…
It looks like you have some nice 3D fundamentals - I think you have what it takes to get into the industry as a character artist. Your best focus right now based on your portfolio is life drawing and studying anatomy - dive into that headfirst. If you don't really draw, then sculpt the human form from photo reference, and…