MattD - Term 03

Heres the start of my practice with ZBrush. I did a barrel following the video and did a male torso to practice my anatomy.

I also did three of each of the cloth assignments

Thanks, I found a website that sells recreations of medieval and fantasy clothes and armor so I was really excited to use some of there stuff for this assignment.

ZBrush has a steep learning curve. Like really steep. It doesn't function the same way other 3D programs do and the layout can be pretty overwhelming. That said Marc does a good job of breaking it down and there are a lot of tutorials on youtube that I've found really helpful. There's really only about a dozen or so things that you really need to know to do about 90% of the work. My girlfriend has a job where she uses ZBrush a lot and she only uses a handful more things than I do.

TLDR: very hard for the first ten hours or so then you get pretty comfortable with it

https://armstreet.com/ There's some really cool stuff here and if I had the money I would totally buy some of it.

My first experience with digital sculpting was with Mudbox too. That will definitely help when you get to sculpting. ZBrush has a very weird setup and that's been the hardest part for me

Some anatomy studies. Not from the lesson itself but since the lesson covers the anatomy of the upper body I thought I would go through a few videos on the upper body by a Youtuber named moderndayjames. They've been on my watch later list for a while so this seemed like a good time to watch them

Some trace overs for the anatomy assignment

Feeling pretty good about these skeleton drawovers. I'm going to do some more to really solidify everything in my head

Some more of the skeleton muscle draw overs. I think I'll do a few more and then do a few more cloth studies and some more ZBrush stuff

A few more skeleton muscle draw overs.

Some gestures and a longer figure drawing. I used the gradient coloring method that Marc uses here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Zkh8KV2vbQ
I like how it came out. It took a lot more tweaking than I thought it would but I can see how it would save a lot of time on a more complicated piece.

Some gestures and an attempt at using the lasso fill tool to do a figure drawing. I also did a figure and then did a draw over for the muscles and a wireframe

Some sketches and some quick torso studies. Still practicing using the gradient coloring method, the top two and the one on the bottom left all just used a single gradient. For the one on the bottom left, I used several gradients on top of each other to get some variation in the skin color then went over it just painting normally. I really like how it turned out, the gradients speed up the whole painting process and it really lets me focus on just the basic lighting. When I get to the coloring part I just focus on colors and doing some minor adjustments.
I've liked working this way so much that I already have a couple auto actions and shortcuts set up for it.