Zbrush Sketches - Clint Eastwood

And Zbrush works amazing on the tablet, this is my second sculpture using the le1700 and it went really smoothly. Made my own UI layout to accomodate for the lack of buttons and after a couple of hours it was organic modelling again!

LE1700 - Life Drawing part 2!

And now changed to PaintTool Sai. The stylus responsiveness compared to Sketchbook is the same and miles better than Photoshop. Also Paint Tool has some good features from PSD like layer blending modes and lots of brushes that you can refine.

Overall, amazing experience. I'm now trying to get Zbrush going smoothly since on a tablet I only have 4 buttons for shortcuts!

LE1700 - Life Drawing

Got a LE1700 Tablet PC. First time doing Life Drawing with one. Used Sketchbook Pro.

Adolf Hitler circa 2009

Couple of days photo montage for Longtail Studios Blog.

Also used some Zbrush for the head, about 2 hours sketch, here it is.

Color and texture tests to see how the skin might look.

New alien model. still in sketch phase, working on shape and proportions. Really like the hard edges and the way they flow.

New renders

Some new renders of the model I started in September. Update on trousers and shoes.

Evening sketch

I shall consume all chicken!

And some photoshop work

HB shreck

and another one, this time based on a friend.

Slow speed painting

And another one. This time decided to tackle clothes. This is the reference used.

speed sculpting

Small kid, used this image as inspirationn

speed sculpting

And another one, based on this image.

speed sculpting

2 hours sculpt using THIS photo as reference.

And finished diffuse texture. Zbrush render with diffuse applied to High res mesh.

Small update on the model. UV mapping is complete. Playing with normal map settings to get best results.

High res model is Zbrush and the rest is max viewport.

Personal polyflow study. Im making sure the loops follow the muscles as much as possible to help the shapes during animation.

Human anatomy study, work in progress.
More than 1 year using this software and I'm still amazed with Zbrsuh, its the first tool that I actually feel I'm doing art. The technical issues are so behind the scene... the freedom for sculpting and just having fun, doodling around, its just really amazing. I highly advise it for anyone that loves art to play around with this software! (those calfs really need some work)

And the final version. Thinking on maybe doing some other characters from the comic.

Leslie

Small update with shaders in mental ray. Going to work on the texture (only bump at the moment) and lighting a bit more and it should be done.
Also the presented model is in zbrush sdiv3 and has been detailed until sdiv6 (1.8 mil polys) which I will only import to Max when I'm happy with the render settings.