If you are good at drawing, it's faster and better to use a pencil+paper to define your ideas. People with zero or poor skills with a pencil, usually go to the zbrush way, they create a cube or shitty basemeshes and they play with them, expecting to create something, by art of magic. For me is better to do the concepting…
Pencil is the only medium that gives you a total freedom on subject/forms/proportions etc.. That's my opinion and that's why I am actually studying hard to overcome my actual poor sketching skills...
"If you are good at sculpting, it's faster and better to use a sculpting program to define your ideas. People with zero or poor skills with Zbrush, usually go to the pencil way, they create a stickfigure or shitty silhouette and they play with them, expecting to create something, by art of magic. For me is better to do the…
Id say start with a sketch. you can iterate much faster with a pencil than you can define a viable shape in 3D. You never get where you need to be in the first iteration.. if you do it in 3D all you get is a mediocre model that took longer than it should have becuase you had to keep changing things. If your not good at…
Valandar, that "Excellent" of yours would be something very subjetive. I don't know traditional or 3d sculptors without pencil skills. The guys without tradional skills always do poor sculpts, and they have more difficulties in the procress of learning, and that's why they end learning some basics. We have different points…
Hey Gibson543, it honestly depends on the level of concept that you need and if its just for yourself or if you are presenting it to someone else. I only concept for me so sometimes I will just bust out a few zsphere pieces more as mass studies than concepts, othertimes I will end up at the polypaint stage and then mess…