Don’t know what to say about this one…..

Well I destroyed the old sculpture.  There was some wierd topology pinching which I thought the Z Brush geometry helpers would fix (such as equalize, re-mesh etc)… well they didn’t, instead they destroyed my ZSphere polygroups, so I just started over again with great results.

Old:

New:

(costume design… next time)

Work in progress, like all these projects!  Woohoo!!

Ever try the Z Brush sketchpad????  It’s pretty fun once you understand how the tools translate. Plus!  You can draw in symmetry!!! Joy!

In this case, tonight I open Z Brush without a project in mind – once the ‘energy’ was in the right place, ie: I felt good, I sketched a couple gestures and the idea of a mother holding her child said go gogogoggoo!!!  That’s all it took.  I’d like to learn more about fabric folds etc so I think this would a good project to do so….

Yet another work-in-progress….

Did a quick color pass in photoshop…

Another work in progress – even rougher than the last, but a cooler pose and even nerdier rendering techniques…..

A work in progress, the thing I like about Z Brush is how flexible things are.  I reclaimed my power on this one as it was a prelimary Zsphere pose, trust me – it was really bad….

Leaving a piece like that is not energizing to the artist.  Thus, I came back and re-channeled some learned stuff.

Another quicky…. breaking apart the body one piece at a time, maybe I’ll combine them all at the end to make a monster.

Man it was tough to find reference for this one.

After the inorganic battleground, I thought a fist pounding the ground made sense.

I do hear it’s possible but it sure felt impossible making really mechanical type creations.  I learnt some neat things with more complicated masking via ‘poly groups’ but the workflow seems counter intuitive.  Intuitive workflows for me allow me to go back and forth without making unchangeable updates. Matter of fact, these damned things caused some frustration…..

(I don’t know why posted that, it looks like a red face, actually that’s my face when I worked on some different workflows)

(it’s an organic approach to something hard-bodied….)

And finally!  Some cool editing techniques, which are impossible to edit.  wow….

Now we’re not talking about any super big updates.  I thought I’d try a different presentation, smooth her out and just call it quits for now.  It was an exercise in staging and pulling different pieces together.  I think I did ok in that – moving on!

Yep, had time for two today…. this one bit off more than I could chew.  I will return to her later, wake her up with proper smoothing and muscles, fat etc.

Yeah um, just a little self portrait study.

The HAND STAND.  There’s already been some personal requests for different views.  It’s not like I actually drew it right hahaha:

A quick study, despite the lack of anatomy study (coming next) I was pretty happy with the random pose that came about.  I think balance really helps it.