Dandylion - Art School Journey

[daceronine]

Looks damn good. Excellent work.
If I'm being picky, her legs look a little funny from the back, like it's too skinny, and her spine... huh.. hole? not sure what word to use, where her spine is seems a bit too deep for comfortt.

both of these could just be the angle though, and i'm just being nitpicky, it looks amazing.

[dandylion3d]

Thank you so much for the feed back! i totally agree some of the anatomy got a little wacky when i posed her, i need to put more time into reviewing proportions too lol I'll make sure to look more at those areas in the future

[dandylion3d]

Sculpt Upper Body Focus 2/5 : Gladiator Boy

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Hello! here's another character study i did. Sculpted from a sphere again. I spent alot more time getting familiar with Zmodeller tools, learning how to make some simple stuff and this was my first attempt at making belts/ straps. Lol thank god there's IMMs for that... If you see anything that i could improve on i would love to hear!

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I'm starting to get a grip on the Zbrush BPR renderer. Its pretty slick how easy it makes rendering a sculpt compared to blender. it would take alot longer to set this up.

[daceronine]

Looks sick, thouhg his torso is perhaps twisted just a bit too much. Abbs make it more noticeable when placed side by side with the reference.
Impressive sculpt though.

[dandylion3d]

Ahh thank you! yeah i think i got overzealous in pushing the pose lol. i attempted to get a little more energy in there than the concept but yea i'll have to look more into how abs work in motion <3 it was a tricky one

[mitsuki-youko]

woah that looks sooo good!! its amazing that you can sculpt so well!

[dandylion3d]

Thank u so much! i appreciate the encouragement <3 i have a loooot i wanna learn and improve on still though lol. working hard!

[gregorya]

So you sculpted this with a sphere? that's impressive. Nice work on the armor pieces.

[dandylion3d]

yep! no base mesh. A sculptor i look upto strongly believes that sculpting everything bespoke and from scratch is the best way to learn especially as a beginner sculptor. I wanna get good too so thats how i roll for now lol.

[dandylion3d]

Sculpt Game Character [Semi-Real Attempt] : Kyaree the Fox Assassin

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Hello! Here's a progress shot of what i'm currently working on. I will continue my upper body studies soon. But i did this bust for my CGMA Zbrush class. If i'm able to i would like to push myself again to make this into a full character. This is a difficult task though that is easy to get lost in so.... we'll see how it goes. I have some instructors whom i can ask questions of though so maybe i'll get somewhere lol.

I was inspired by an anime vtuber design to attempt a Fox Assassin Girl. I wanted to elevate the design to a semi-real style like resident evil, possibly even as far as hitman. But thats a super tall order so i'm ready to fail at it haha. Gotta be bad to get good ya know.

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I feel like my sense of anatomy is getting just a little stronger. gotta keep pushing.

[catsforsnacks]

Damn dude this is all really good looking stuff. Cool how you can adapt the assignments to practice 3d more. Keep it up!

[daceronine]

That's coming along great! I thought it was a catgirl or a bat girl from the discord post, didn't occur to me it was a fox girl xD

Looking forward to see more!

[dandylion3d]

lol yea i hadnt reff'd any fox stuff yet so totally valid observation lmao. I found some pics of fox ears online though that really helped me dial in the shapes. i still need work on emulating fur in clay though.

[mitsuki-youko]

yooo this looks amazing!!

[gregorya]

A sculptor I look up to strongly believes that sculpting everything bespoke and from scratch is the best way to learn especially as a beginner sculptor.

Sculpting from scratch sounds interesting.

I thought it was a catgirl or a bat girl from the discord post, didn't occur to me it was a fox girl xD

I'm guessing fox, bat, or cat ears seem similar.

[dandylion3d]

Sculpt Upper Body Focus 3/5 : DMC5 Dante

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Hello there! spent the week working on a sculpt of Dante's face and studying some upper body anatomy. Really put some work into trying to figure out the complexity that is back anat lol. I'll make another render soon (probably) to show off his abs, i think i'm gonna try to make some of his coat and sword too.

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[snakker]

Man your sculpting is next level mate. Just wondering here but shouldn't the teres major slip under the latissimus dorsi? Also, It looks like the latissimus is attaching onto the tips of the trapezius rather than the trapezius inserting as thin (practically tendon sheets or aponeurosis) into the spine with the latissimus wrapping closely and then spreading thin into the spine as well. As the latissimus goes down I think rather than having such a deep depression is kinda just fades or thins out at the lines where we notice the erector spinae more

I may be wrong but those would be my observations - take with a grain of salt and please correct me if I'm wrong XD

cheers!

[daceronine]

Damn that looks good bro. Even the lips have a fine texture to it, that's some crazy attention to detail. I had to look up a bit on what @snakker said. It does seem like the teres slides into the latissimus

Then again, in really buff guys it seems the teres bulges so much it seems to outright be out of the latissimus

I do think it should be more to the right if I get picky though, I think the reason it's more to the left in the reference you posted is because that guy is pushing his arms back, which makes it look like it closer to the arm than it is.

On the other hand, I do think the latissimus are fine, as they do follow a line almost like following the traps. In leaner guys I do agree they would fade into the erector spinae, like the image below, but in really buff guys they bulge so much it looks like they form a line with the traps.

If there was anything else I could add, I just think he could buff up those pectorals xD

Oy, as usual don't let this take away from the amazing work there. Dante is looking mighty fine!

[dandylion3d]

i think that makes alot of sense! i honestly was just trying to match the buff guy ref lol my brain was getting overwhelmed with all the buff muscle interactions haha but i'll def look into your points more. A pro artist i showed this too told me i needed to get better ref of live people rather than relying so hard on anatomy for sculptors. So i'l have to do that more. Some feedback i got was also to reduce the pronunciation of the creases between the back muscles so i think thats pretty inline with what your suggesting

[dandylion3d]

thank you for the feedback! i appreciate the pickyness, sometimes i just give up and get into a just make it look like the ref mode lmao. but ill think harder about that stuff. it does seem to me that theres a big difference in muscle forms between buff guys and regular joes. so i'll just have to get better ref to learn more about those issues.