My first human head

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hey, ive just started using blender the other day…its awesome :smiley: anyway, this is my first model of a human head and i was just wondering if you could give me feedback. Also the 3d reference which i used was a woman, but it came out looking too manly i think, and i dont know what to do to alter this…maybe when its complete it will look better? Also i was wondering what the best way of adding a skin texture to the piece would be…
thanks :slight_smile:

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face take 2.blend (182 KB)

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  • You need to recalculate your normals, in edit mode, select all [A KEY], then [CTRL+N] recalculate normals outside.
  • Plus I found a vertex that was only partially attached to the mesh.

I uploaded your blend file with those changes made…
Your model looks great, I suck at modeling heads. :frowning:

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face take 3.blend (273 KB)

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Thank you very much…what does re-calculating your normals actually do…coz when you do it, nothing seems to happen :slight_smile: The tutorial i used looks complicated but its easy to follow if you wanna try
www.cgarena.com/freestuff/tutorials/misc/headmodeling

thanks again

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Recalculating the normals fixes weird shading results you can get sometimes, because for some reason blender will sometimes create a face that is not facing outward. And no you would not see any difference on the mesh I gave you because I had already done once.

Thanks for the link to the tutorial, I’ll check it out.

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Recalculating the normals fixes weird shading results you can get sometimes, because for some reason blender will sometimes create a face that is not facing outward. And no you would not see any difference on the mesh I gave you because I had already done once.

Thanks for the link to the tutorial, I’ll check it out.

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the first thing I noticed is how slow it was… 3 subdivision levels in the viewport really isn’t necessary. Using just 1 on a smooth shaded model should be enough… I don’t use it in edit mode. The back of the head has some duplicated edges and a floating vertex that needs to be deleted. The geometry you have going on for the nose is very messy.

Never uploaded anything to pasteall before, so I dunno if this works… I edited your model a little bit.
http://www.pasteall.org/blend/4701

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I fixed a issue with some messed up vertex’s in the back of the head…See attached…

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face take 4.blend (278 KB)

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a vertex for the nose had 2 other verts sitting on top of it, and there’s a vert where I painted. Deleted a couple stray edges too
http://lh5.ggpht.com/_3jMqR9ytGRk/TSpBTLVyCdI/AAAAAAAAARk/FIAV-9K9EFc/floatingverts.jpg

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thanks for the help guys, i will look at the changes made this evening…i keep having trouble with floating vertisies or watever, and i always have things un attached…the back of the head was really annoying me…but thanks for fixing it :smiley:

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you can probably select all the verts in edit mode n remove doubles.

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Thats a good idea… You might have to be mess with the remove doubles settings a little bit so your model doesn’t mess up though…

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thanks i tried it and it worked fine…ive added a skin texture which looks great… but am having trouble getting the eyes to fit :confused: