Paying attention to the little things, wrinkles in clothing, different shades in a person’s skin, lighting a subject, expressions on faces and which muscles are affected, scenery and setting a scene, basic anatomy, (all of these things which I still have to desperately work on)…the imperfections in everybody’s appearance which gives them character…those are a few of the things that come to mind that will help in zbrushing or probably any other 3d modeling situation/app…īut simply, yes, I think being able to draw good helps the artist a bit more… Practice in any area will help you, though. I think the real life sculptors on the forum have commented that it is an easy transition to zbrushing… I don’t think it is essential for zbrush, but I am sure it doesn’t hurt.

I like to draw and always have…whether I am any good…hmmm…I dunno…I try to improve and if it doesn’t look right, well that is ok too…the love of drawing is the key for me… I got lucky because the concepts did most of that heavy lifting for me but that's what I kept in the back of my mind while sculpting.Well I have talked to alot of past zbrush artists on this before in a chat room a few times…I was suprised to find that alot of our zbrush artists didnt draw as much or as well as I thought they would… The biggest challenge with these sculpts was to make sure the underlying structure of the planes still had some anatomical reference points.

I mostly used Orb Cracks for carving the general shapes, Orb Polish for flattening bigger surfaces and then HPolish for more subtle cleanup. Again, Orb has some amazing brushes to help in cutting those shapes out. In projects like Tan Zhi Hui Chun-Li and D4, I treat the surfaces as if I was going to sculpt a rock cliff rather than an organic shape. I block out the big silhouette shapes and then draw on the model to find the internal design. Polypaint and sketching on the model play a big part, too.

I try different things quickly without committing to anything until I like what I have. I really like designs with organic flowing, and those tools help me with this. In ZBrush, the process mostly involved a lot of DynaMesh, ZRemesher, SnakeHook with AccuCurve and Insert Curve Tubes for the rims.

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