Sculpting Sketchbook (Newest: Ladybug Sculpt! Update 8/22/11)

Hello Everyone! :smiley: I have been using Blender for a few years and have recently started to model! I started this thread to both get feedback on how to make the works better and also to track the growth I hope to achieve. I am 15 and love constructive crits. Thank you and without further ado…


His name is Ali!
1,474,388 Triangles

Time: 2 hours


Alien Pirate
345,872 Triangles
Time: 30 Minutes

PS: I use Sculptris :slight_smile:



New Alien!

1,142,738 Triangles

Time: 6 Hours

mm I like what I see, keep on modeling!

This isn’t the kind of stuff I do so I can’t really give you any constructive criticism.
But you have some quality work here considering your age. Keep going!

Thank You! :slight_smile: So some new work today, a hard-surface sculpt…


Low-Poly HandGun

Sculpted in Sculptris, Clay Render in Blender

2,740 Triangles

Time: 2 Hours

Happy Blending! :slight_smile:




Big Eyes!

149,386 Triangles

Time: 30 Minutes

C+C always welcome :slight_smile:

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Good work with sculpting that gun. Is it really all done in sculptris?

Yes, I started with the default sphere on all models and a base mesh for the gun. Added almost all detail in Sculptris! :slight_smile:

Did this for a contest here on BA!!


Here’s a new one!



142,323 Triangles

Sculpting Time: 3 Hours

Paint: 1 Hour

Total: 4 Hours

Wicked, imaginative beasties! I need to mess with the sculpting in Blender more often. I like what develops when I sculpt without purpose. Mutated blobs mostly :slight_smile:

Haha that’s how most of them start;) All are doodles except the gun because that one was hard ;D I need to do a mutated blob now!

B-)

Hello Again!!! New sculpt! Tried to see what I could do in 10 minutes of work :smiley:



A Little Guy with baby teeth and no name yet!!! What should it be???

140,022 Triangles

Time: 10 Minutes

And another view of ALi from the first post! This is during the early stages before detail! You can compare the two and see how I added the extras to him! Enjoy:)

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New Scene! Underwater baby creature hunting for the first time. :slight_smile:



Time: 15 Minutes

218,008 Triangles

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Sculptris is a great tool!!! As always, C+C are welcome and I love harsh crits so hit me with your best shot ;D

These are looking great for someone who has only recently started modeling, I wasn’t near as good as this when I was 15.

The area of improvement you could work on by now is setting up materials, the textured creature has decent sculpting work, but the material properties are the same everywhere, you would need to learn how to blend materials, varying the amount of spec, SSS, ect… for different parts of your creatures (will help you get much less of a plasticine look on textured models)

Is there a way to achieve this within sculptris for all of these except the gun are rendered within sculptris :slight_smile: Any ideas? Tutorial time!!! XD

You could experiment with varying the surface characteristics over the creatures. Like going from rough to smooth, bumpy to rippled, etc. Otherwise most of your sculpts are fantastic. I think you should try challenging yourself, I will suggest two things:
1: Try sculpting to character: Make up a story and personality and try to capture it in a sculpt.
2: Try sculpting known anatomy. Humans or animals. It will force you to think about bones and
muscles. You already do form and proportions well, so I think focusing on other things is your
way to grow technically (while keeping up playing with form can still make you grow as an artist).

Do you know if Sculptris supports alphas? And if so how to use them? I have been adding detail with the crease tool but alphas would help me to achieve textures. Any ideas?

My next sculpt is a challenge like you said, I will be working on a horse. Hopefully it’ll work! :slight_smile: I’ll update my progress!

Amazing… I’m 18 and I started doing 3D graphics and using blender at 13 but I am nowhere near as good as you even in sculpting I literally don’t know scratch about sculpting awesome… man you make me jealous! Well I guess I gotta give sculptris a try since I just can’t get the hang of blender’s sculpting tools.