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Nick's Sketchbook

Hi Everyone,

This is my first ever complete sculpt. I bought ZBrush a year ago, and I started with Madeleine Scott-Spencer’s Introduction to ZBrush 4R7 tutorial at Gnomon Workshop (excellent tutorial for beginners). Feeling overconfident, I jumped right into Maarten Verhoeven’s tutorial “Sculpting a Dragon with ZBrush” (LINK). This proved to be very challenging at my level of inexperience. So… I worked through the tutorial, on and off, for about 10 months - and the result is below. Although it is a tutorial, every brush stroke is my own - the tutorial included no ZBrush files.

I also rendered out a turntable here: VIMEO LINK

Going forward, I hope to be more dedicated to sculpting, and not get hung up on a single tutorial again for a year.

I guess since I went through the whole tutorial, I will give my review of Maarten Verhoeven’s Gnomon Workshop Tutorial “Sculpting a Dragon with ZBrush”. The tutorial takes you through all of the steps to making the dragon. I had two issues with the tutorial:


  1. Martin rarely speaks. I would have liked more commentary during the sculpt explaining his process. This is especially so, because there is no concept art being used - you are following along with an artist who is sculpting from his imagination - always tinkering.
  2. A lot of work is done between a fade-to-black and when the video returns. This is ok for a learning exercise, in that it challenges you to reproduce work without watching it being done. The problem is that the changes made between video sequences are not identified. After a cut, I would have to scrub along the video to see if there are any clear views of what has changed. Sometimes you don’t notice a change was made until much later, at which point adopting that change can be difficult.

I hope to follow this up with some of my own original work in the near future.

Question for anyone who reads this post: I notice a lot people’s sketch work is displayed in a sort of grey material that displays details nicely. I scoured the internet for advice on which matcap to use and came up empty. I suspect people are rendering in Keyshot (I don’t have keyshot - I bought ZBrush as a hobby). I ended up with this gold material, but I’m not entirely satisfied. Too shiny I think.

Cheers!
~Nick.

Attachments

Face - Left.jpg

Face - Rear.jpg

Face - Right.jpg

Full - Front.jpg

Full - Left.jpg

Full - Rear.jpg

Full - Right.jpg

LowerBody - Front.jpg

Real good job nick, fine first sculpt .
get use to lots of time spent laboring over your work , you never know if you’ve
bitten off more than you can chew ,until you’ve chewed it .:smiley:
Look foreword to seeing more from you .

Thanks pygmalion! I’ll keep on chewin’