@@yansculpts lol, sorry XD I was just teasing, some people are morning people. I am not one of these :O I'm more awake as the day goes on, probably due to caffiene. Mornings are tough for me
practice just 10 minutes a day EVERY day is much more effective than 3 hours a day once a month. I do 10 minutes of guitar a day and I progress in a significant way
@@judia3719 the problem with 3 hours a day is that very few people will be able to last for the duration, you will do that for a month and then you will get tired and give up.
As a newbie myself, i tried doing speedsculpts after your recommendation. And i would say if you are a complete beginner as me, then you should focus on normal projects, where you focus on small details, but it would be also extremely helpful if you once or twice a week do some speed sculpting, just to refine your skills. So i would recommend you just to mix both of these styles of sculpting.
First nose=3:23hs Second one= 1:15hs The third= 30m well... in 2 days i can make a perfect nose 7w7 3 days with mouths... and i'm going to make some eyes now :)
For the last days, I binge-watched so many of your videos, although I never touched Blender (but it's already installed for one or two years and everytime updated 😅). Yesterday I made my first two 3D-models - your vid about the stylized male head gave me the kick to try it finally out. And now I'm so excited and want to learn so much more. So I purchased your two tutorials! 😁 And I also had to buy your 27h making of The Witch to observe the process! I hope my 2d drawing experiences speed the learning process up so that I can create good stuff in 3d too. Your vids helped me already so much more than some other tutorials on YT! I thank you so much for all your work and effort! 💗
Nice series man, Ive been working in the industry for the last 3 years and everyday something new still hits u in the face like a truck. Its nice to hear such verbal notes( like a podcast basically) when ur sitting in front of a problem/new skill/art stly/element. i guess i just wanted to say keep making such content as it really helps the morale at times.
Yeah I really feel like by the end of sculpt Jan, my work was deteriorating. At the begging of the month I felt like I was learning new skills everyday, and sculpting things I wouldn't normally try to. But by the end I was getting to a point where I didn't want to go for anything too ambitious and have no hope of being happy with what I put out, nor did I want to just do what I already knew I could do well quickly, and put out a rushed, lower quality version of it. So instead I just began narrowing my scope tremendously, both in what I'd try to sculpt and the techniques I'd use. Sometimes my passion is stoked by just focusing 100% on a folio piece for 2 months, inspiring me try new techniques and find solutions to problems, while tryna force several hours a day of throw away sketches does nothing for me. There's definitely a balance to be struck.
For sure. There is only so much i can explain in one video, i actually plan to cover more subjects related to this one, one of them covering what you went through. The thing is no matter what method you use, you are bound to hit road blocks and these blocks might vary depending on the person. When you hit one, you should take a step back and asses what the problem is and find a solution for it. It might not have been very clear but i did not intend to say that speed sculpts is the only practice you should do, you should simply set aside time for it to your daily practice. Focused studies and projects should not be discarded, they are essential as well
@@yansculpts I'm with you, speed sculpts are an indispensable method of rapid development. My comment was an addition to the suggestion you made that if done wrong it can harm your development. There is a lot I could say, but just as it's hard to get it all in a video, that's perhaps more true for a youtube comment. So I'll' leave it at that, and look forward to your future content on the subject. All the best o>
This video is really helping ! It's been a year or 2 since I'm telling me "you should really do speed sculpts to improve yourself and work faster" and I always start and stop a week after ... This video shows clearly the benefits to do it every day and you have motivated me !
i've made a couple little sculptures on nomadsculpt a couple weeks ago but haven't done any since, and while i can't keep routines this inspires me to do it more regularly, so thank you!!
Finally a reasonable talk on this subject. I always felt like artists used speed sculpting mostly to show off, not necessarily in a way that benefits them or simply for practicing. Thanks so much for this video. ^_^ Pair this up with Proko's "Improve Your Sketching Speed - 5 Minute Concept Design" and boom, mind blow.
Been a while since I've watched one of your videos (just been so busy...), but I can see your still improving constantly, your really developing your own art style, keep it up my man!
This is great advice, i did incorporate something like this last year but i did it wrong, instead of starting a new project everyday i had kept on improving only one project, and i didn't set a timer, because that's what makes me stay focused. Thanks Yan, this is a great opportunity to hop back in and level up. Great content as usual.
I love you attitude. I'm gonna be honest, I don't watch most of your speed sculpts. I subbed because I was interested to see what a blender sculpt artist had to say about sculpting, so stuff like this is what I'm mostly interested in! Looking forward to more tips for aspiring artists, as I'm hoping to be able to start doing this myself at some point when I get a bit more of time :)
I am glad you made this video. This concept doesn't only apply to sculpting as well. I myself am not a sculpter yet as the idea seems intimidating, but I do draw digitally. I usually do some work once a week, but this video gave me a new perspective on how I should work. I will be keeping this in mind, thank you!
Good day Yan I watched the whole video and sadly I would like to make some points. This process is actually called sketching in traditional arts and it is a very powerful tool to harness your skills, every tip you gave was 100% good and I could not agree with you more. Practise makes perfection. The only thing I would like to share is that you need some corrective, feed back or whatever, other artists on same level should comment on your work and give out their opinion, not to change your current "sketch" but to improve upon the next one. While I was studding arts we were told to make 50 sketches every day, hands, feet, legs, body, whole models just to be able to capture the movement the poses and the feel of the body. So great video!
One thing I have learned over the years was to use a technique with guitar playing which directly transfers to anything your learning. Start learning subject A, after a bit and you start feeling stress or your not learning take a 5 min break or 10 mins, come back to it. You will be amazed how fast your mind adapts and the stress is gone, learning almost anything. This has worked for me playing guitar for years and in my sculpting. The problem is life distractors and finding the time, most times just like practicing guitar we tend to make tons of excuses why should not do it.
I watched the whole video! Or at least listened and heard the part about people skipping through. I’m currently developing my technique and have been learning a lot from these as well as your Gumroad resources, great stuff!
Your tutorial are very thorough and clear. I think if you keep updating sculpting tutorials 100k will come in no time. Especially the finishing touch Blender can do after sculpting
Love your video Yan and always appreciate the advice. i try these things every so often but always run out of energy since im used to being disciplined. A video i would love to see is a months worth of sculpt idea starting small and easy and very slowly ramping up. a little like sculpjanuary but instead each idea is meant to go from super easy up to intermediate. e.g. day 1 sculpt a apple or fruit, day 15 sculpt eye nose and mouth, day 30 sculpt upper torso and head. start super easy and build up real slow. i think to many people like me immediately go straight for the full head and put themselves off by starting to hard. Just a suggestion, but i love your work no matter what you do as its so helpful to us stragglers.
Great! I actually have done some face speed sculpts months ago but stopped after 22 days, burn out reasons, made the mistake of trying to start out with 2 hours each and zero knowledge of head anatomy. Some of the lasts ones was actually pretty good compared to my first tries, but back then I didn't have have the resilience to push myself for it everyday. Thanks for the tips, I'll start to try again first thing tomorrow morning. :D
Hope you started and stuck to it. I found that we never get it right from the first time anyways, everytime we fail we figure out why and try again till we get it right ;)
@@yansculpts Yeah, I'm still doing it daily! First one was really bad, but the 10th try was very good in comparison. I'll tweet you both side by side later, feel like I've improved a lot already. :D
This is great practice which makes you memorize more and even think more about the details in the process. I did alot when I was learning Zbrush and I am still doing it cause learning never ends wherever you are and whatever software you use.:)
Not a sculpter, nor do I intent to start sculpting for at least a year, but I gotta say that this video and advices are great, I always love to check some inspiration like this occasionally, just to refresh and stay on the right path :) So glad I found this video in Blender facebook group. Cheers
What this all sounds to me is iterations, what Yan wants you to understand is where you stand in the timeline, YOUR timeline. This guy knows polygon sculpt, this other guy knows metaball sculpt process, this other guy yet knows a good technique on how to approach brows, so much so he finally understand a way to even start from brows, focusing on the original emotion he had in mind and then sculpting everything from that point out. Yan, and all the others have their own exploration done on sculpting and have their own unique history about it and what is brand new flash news for them might just be YOUR last week's discovery, a discovery that you might've explored enough to fully understand, and what happens when you 'fully' understand something ? It means anyone can come at you with a bunch of confusion about something and YOU wouldn't be confused AT ALL simply because you already know about that process, that configuration of things, that load of information, and you see from your INNER EYE everything that needs to be seen and understood, you get at the core ESSENCE of the understanding you have and from which you are finally able to get through from anywhere to anywhere, that is ultimately the master's path. Simply said, you don't know until you do know. Not knowing tells you what you need to know. Knowing tells you which way to go. If you don't know where to go, you need to explore/know something more in depths. If you do know where to go well that's it, you just need to do what needs to be done. XD Njoy ! Tks Yan !
I make obscure cartoon characters from memory (usually Simpsons characters or Futurama aliens) as practice because I can always have something new to do and in the end I have a fleet of futurama and Simpsons characters I can put in the derpiest render ever
Great video! I'm really impressed by the lips! I have so much trouble trying to get that right (or at least look right to me). I hope to learn as much as I can with these tips. Keep up the good work!
Thanks for this. Great info! Im new to sculpting always a poly modeler so this is quite a change. Tried a lil of Zbrush but do not like interface. Started blender awhile back and love thw new sculpting features. Trying to cartoonize my wife but having trouble NOT making it too real. This will help me do that cuz im doing all the things you said we shouldnt. So thanks again. I will pump out more without trying to be too serious or perfect!👍🏽
I needed this. I been spending my days at work thinking about making my own statue figures I can't find on the internet. So I need to start trying for 30 min making torsos
I don't disagree with the video, but still I'd like to add- What helped me tremendously from raw beginner (in 3D modeling, not beginner animator/developer) was the reverse. Having a specific published personal game/video/project in mind, and taking it as slow as necessary with no pressure. If it's your first time, there is nothing NOTHING wrong with spending 30 days on a sculpt. (I can hear experienced artist screaming NO THAT'S WRONG!) But let me explain. I'm talking brand new beginner making an anatomically correct creature and working through how to retopologize, project, and bake when figuring out how to attach teeth/tongue from IMM, problems with too high poly counts causing the model to be broken up into parts- all those learning phases and tiny steps take time. What you should do is watch the video on zpheres- make your base model with spheres. Try 'animating' it and think of your end goal poses. Turn it into a really horrible looking abomination of a mesh. Dynamesh it, sculpt on it, keep referring to tutorials, sculpt some more, install a reference ap like pure ref, find loads of references, keep working at it and checking sculpting videos and working at it and asking questions until the fully rigged beastly creature with its sexy alpha maps, working tongue teeth and wings, is right there in front of you 40 days later. Now you know everything you really 'need' to know and can start speed sculpting different things while studying figure sculpting. Yeah pros can spend 1 day finding references and not so long making a concept sculpt and retopologize the whole thing in 4 hours. You can't just yet- that's fine. Just take it slow and learn every day and build and build until you are just as good. Watch heaps of videos but not too much or you'll forget all the techniques. Which is why a specific goal is important. You won't forget.
im going to try and update this every day... ive been using blender for about a couple weeks now and dont ever do sculpting... so lets do this... Day 1... well its night time right now... so im really tired but i want to do something... Goal: hand amount complexity: Not Complex maybe even a simple mitten shape... End Result: *Still working on it*
Looking forward to your video on some of these techniques... mainly how you pull geometry out so quickly. When I use that snake hook, I get a little horn.. not an arm. :P
Dear Yan, someone recommended to me your channel on Blender discord and this is your first video I watched (and I liked it, and I agree with you on it in general). Btw, I don't do CG for a job or plan to, but rather do it as a hobby and for pet projects. So I'm from the beginning ready to forget about my CG work though only upto a point. Since a person spends a way bit of time/energy on any CG or work, he would naturally have attachment to it. So asking people to forget about it is kinda okay (given the purpose that they don't get overly attached) yet not okay, and furthermore suggesting to throw it away 'everytime' might not be the best advice/solution either. 1. I would practice speed sculpting when I can, create some wacky things as well as some planned things, and put a stop to it when the time limit is exhausted (well a few minutes +- is natural given human psychology), but not throw it away completely. Instead, I would put it in a different folder than my usual blender files so that it doesn't show up in my recent work, hence acheiving the objective of being able to 'discard' something. 2. Next, I can revisit my part 'failures' or 'ugly ones' as some may call it after a prolonged time, similar to looking at 5-10 year old photo of yourself, so as to acheive the objective of long term differentiation. It is like the case of human height. One is not able to observe the subtle changes in the height of a person if you are around them everyday. But if you meet them after a long time, you can understand the difference quiet clearly. It has its benefits. 3. Also, perhaps after 2-3 years, one may have better CG skills, but may in turn find themselves lacking in the dept of 'imagination' or 'original concept'. Looking at your old work (which you had forgotten about) gives you a certain benefits in this case. Besides, it is possible to turn those near 'failures' into something new now with little effort compared to starting from scratch. Salvaging & Recycling is an important human activity! On a side note, please leave your finished product for a bit longer towards the end of the video (instead of ending the video short). It would be helpful. 20-30 seconds is not a big change on your side, but it is a significant one for the eye of those who watched the video attentively. Thank you again for your hardwork. Here is my artstation profile: www.artstation.com/someab , I would be happy to keep in touch with you. Good Day.
Hey! It isn't about throwing away your work, it is about detaching yourself from you individual artwork. I say this from personal experience and from what i see in most artists. It is almost as if we think that that one art we create defines us, but it is only a means to an end, adding points to our level. This was not the focus of this video so i didn't really go into that, but it is perfectly fine to keep your work to see your improvement, you don't have to actually delete them.
Thanks for all your advices, I jut a beginner but see your videos encourage me to try new things. I would like to see more of your sculptures in Skectchaf to check them closely and try to do it by myself, thanks for everything and I will be waiting for your next video.
I think I'm gonna try and start doing speed sculpts on weekends (Saturday and Sunday), instead of 1 per every day of the week. Committing to one speed sculpt per day can get hectic for me since I need to work on 3 Animated shorts until April.
Thank you, TH-cam for the good recommendation. Glad I clicked, interested to see more and learn more so I subscribed. Honestly, I'm going to try this over the summer. I have a thesis coming up in Gameart soon and I have to make 3D models and I want to improve A LOT before I get to that point. Sort of related: Is Blender better to use than Zbrush? Less focus on one free and one is expensive which is a better program overall for modeling/sculpting?
Zbrush is a powerful program that focuses on sculpting, blender is also a powerful program but its sculpting tools aren't on par by themselves. I think it holds up strongly if you know how to use the program as a whole and utilise its many functions to work with the sculpting, so it is probably a more unorthodox way but it can yield great results. At the end of the day use which ever you prefer, they are just tools, like different brands of pencils
sculpting looks really impressive in Blender! I'm a longtime user of zbrush for sculpting and recently learning blender. It's definitely cool to see blender being so capable, and the ability to have multiple views of your sculpt is something I've always dreamed about in zbrush. Have you ever sculpted in zbrush and if so, how do you compare the two? Thanks, great video!
Long time ago, i don't really compare them because to get the best of either you need to sculpt in a different way. Zbrush has its strong points and so does Blender :)
By the end of the talk i think i was around 2 hours where i would usually call the session done, I added an hour or 2 to refine her and prep her for the video, that part i would usually not do in a speed sculpt.
The speed sculpts vary though, sometimes i go further in the same amount of time sometimes i get worse results, almost embarrassing haha. Many factors vary but you shouldn't worry what you get in that time, as explained in the video.
I think i payed more attention to the sculpt than the actual explaination. And yet... no clue on transforming the initial cube into a person. BTW: I never thought of moving an arm in that way 4:04
Hey buddy i love your videos. I have actually started learning blender by watching your videos. The only thing is that i wanna learn sculpting but i can find a tutorial video. And i am a student so i cant really afford gumroad videos. I will be really great if you could put a tutorial series on youtube for that so that it will help me and a lot of people like. Otherwise i really love your work and thanks a lot for all the other free things you have tought me!! Thanks man!
Love your work dude! Definitely going to check out more of your stuff. 2 questions though! Can you do some videos on ZBrush? Like how to set up for sculpting a model etc....and what is that song in the background!? Especially the french cafe instrumental part which sounds like it's from Ratatouille.
I dono the names but i get my music from epidimic sound with a subscription, as for zbrush dono if enough of my audience would be interested so maybe not right now
I sketch a lot. Speed Sculpting is no different, just in 3D. The first session of Speed sculpting should be about getting familiar with the process, developing your own work flow, learning the program you are using, even learning to work with and around the limitations of your hardware. Following sessions should start hitting on aspects of a model you are not familiar with. Simple enough. But this can be as focused as mastering the details on an eye, a finger, a single muscle group. making mechanical objects and so on. Eventually you are working on doing completed figures and objects. IF you draw of paint you will want to be working toward possibly duplicating you 2D work in 3D, if for no other reason than to give your targets to hit. You will go on to finalizing projects, making animation ready character models and the like. It does not end but most importantly this is supposed to be fun, and if your style and.or range evolves all the better.
Hi, I have been following you for a while now and your work is really great. Could you please make a deep tutorial on how to make clothes the way you do? What I do is to extract mask but some times it lead to a impossible to fix model.
@YanSculpts I have question : When you started your adventure with the blender, what did you start with, what was your starting point that it was this style and not another, and so on
thanks for your tips , I was missed about some study methods .. so i gonna start doing some weeks with speedsculps and see the progress .. thanks =D (ps: srry about my english ^^ )
you have to know all commands before you can speed through them! and you cant speed through that so much. but what i get from this is that one should not lag or be lazy or be to slow, in ones modeling. on the other hand one can only put more thought into his work only if taking the time. ever heard the term speed kills.
You got some of my points across but maybe not all. This is a method of practicing to be added to your daily work, but it is not to replace other methods. For example, slow focused studies is still important. You just learn different things from each method. Also, speed by itself is not good as i said in the video, it can be and usually is mistaken for being sloppy, which is understandable. Thanks for your feedback :)
the things you have mentioned in the video are on point sculpting drawing etc doing these things every day will help you! But i do have to disagree with you on one point "these sculpts are going into the trash next to your pg18 mp4's" (right how did you know about those....) but showing your art to people is in my opinion also a good way to improve. people can see mistakes and errors you might not. and i think im not alone. it's a great video though. using these tips myself aswell!
eriyo2000 Well but speedsculpts need that freedom of "Its only practice"... People work entirely different when they know that others will see this later. Normally you'd be right... but getting other opinions should really be seperated from speedsculpts. You dont want anything restrictive except the time. Only that way you get better very very fuckin fast. Speedsculpting daily is POWERFULL! Do that half a year and you can work in the industry, no joke. But if you as an example are a dude who always wants to sculpt hot chicks, it probably would be best for you to sculpt loads of hot chicks. That keeps motivated and improves the fastest simply because you do what you yourself like. If you now know that others will check out your works, you quickly stop doing just hot chicks and your motivation lacks. DAILY work requires loooads of motivation! That shit is not easy. If you're not 100% behind what you're doing, you waste time and efficiency in getting better with this method + you will most definitely stop working daily. Normally others are a huge bockade for chosing what you do......
As Benhard explained, if you have in mind that you will show it to people it might stiffen your work which can cause several issues. You can still share for feedback of course just don't keep that in mind when sculpting. Plus, you can always ask feedback for focused studies/sculpts, something i plan to cover on the channel as well.
Great video! I am going to follow you from now on and proceed watching some more videos of yours. Could you share your screen layout for sculpting? It looks great!
Great vid Yan. I have a question about traditional modelling. I began as a low-polygon modeller, and I am now getting into sculpting. Essentially I am planning to model over my low polygon meshes. I can make virtually anything with polygonal modelling, and now that I'm learning sculpting I'm hung up on the small details. Like muscles/nails ect. Do you have any tips for how to sculpt over a low poly model? Thanks :)
Well if you want to sculpt fine details you will have to add geometry to your low poly models either way, you can do that by entering dynamic topology which will break your topology, or use multi resolution modifier
I wanted to start it for a long time so i cant wait to see speed sculpt tips video :) ( by the time you made it i probably already started :P) but i also wanted to record the sculpts but i don't know which software to use i already tried obs but it doesn't seams to work with blender for some reason :/ what are you using to make videos?
Thank you Yan for the advice, I think daily practice is the golden road to improvement. I am trying since a few weeks and it feels good to hear that from you. I'm interested in the character's anatomy, have you a suggestion too on what I should read in order to begin ? (something like Color and Light for color) And it's not easy to practice on a laptop. What kind of hardware you guys pros are using, main specs, ...? Thanks
@@yansculpts thank you I'll check it out. I think the hardware depends on the level of the artist... FYI, I read this article from a zbrush artist: www.zbrushguides.com/3d-workspace-and-pc-overview/ He updated his worstation and it's really amazing..
Any tips on setting goals like trying to improve speed? How long does it take you to sculpt a character like the one in the video if its a speed sculpt?
Will depend there is no rule on how long it takes, for example the afro girl took me 1h30mins i think (i mention it in that vdieo) but that is not always the results i get in that timeframe. You learn by practice no way around it
I have a doubt, it is bad try to sculpt with a mouse? because a guy told me that I should buy a drawing tablet with his pen, and thanks for the video that really looks awesome and more awesome how you try and try to get the curls in the way that you want to be!!!
Hey there! A late comment from a guy who just started learning Blender 2.8. I was wondering if you used a reference for this or just sculpted the body from memory? I'm gonna start the sculpting lessons soon and I'm eager to learn.
Great video, as always. Well, I really wanna start doing art, hopefully in blender, but it just doesn't work. I mean, I know, it's never easy when beginning, and crappy art is also something if I practice, but I really don't know how to start. I saw your ear for beginners tutorial and did one, and that was ok for the beginning. But now what? Continue practice the ear? Refine the first one? Go to another part of the face? The whole face? The head shape? Hands, bodies, body types, women, fictional, fan art, idk. Do you have some tips? Pls, do a video about this. Oh, and about the speed sculpting, if I am a beginner, should I do those?
I would like to ask how can i start speed sculps. I been open Zbrush the last 3 or 4 days and doing nothing, i set on the chair, see the screen i say "what the f*ck can i do?" It's like, "okey, i want to do something for practice purpose" and at the same time i'm saying "i dony know what to do". Should i look for concept arts? Blueprints? I'm stuck and i dont get an idea of how to make a progress
I know that for sculping its recommended to have a wacom board and almost everyone who is really successful at sculpting is using a wacom board. I don't have a wacom board myself but i have tried one before and it was extremly hard to even just move the mouse cursor how i wanted it and i was not able to sculpt anything so i believe i stick to the mouse even tho my sculpting with mouse is terrible too. But i'm just curious, how good can you sculpt by using the mouse? Any chance to you could make a video of sculpting by only using the mouse? i'd love to see it because i cant find anyone else who have done it and you're the best sculpter i know i youtube
I should try it but it still wouldn't be a fair comparrision, because to truly know i should sculpt with the mouse for a few months which i probably wont xD I do advice your to watch this video: th-cam.com/video/R1CaEph3DTU/w-d-xo.html
"at the start of day when you're full of energy" this is the only part I didn't understand :O lol
You are rested, assuming you sleep well. We are usually less focused aty the end of the day when we get tired.
@@yansculpts lol, sorry XD I was just teasing, some people are morning people. I am not one of these :O I'm more awake as the day goes on, probably due to caffiene. Mornings are tough for me
I don't even drink caffeine anymore and sleep 7-8 hours and still have more energy near the end of the day.
That's terrifying how I read this comment just as he said it
@@AsyrinaShadowmyst Lmao same. I don't have any energy for the day, but when night time comes, I'm motivated to do all sorts of stuff
practice just 10 minutes a day EVERY day is much more effective than 3 hours a day once a month. I do 10 minutes of guitar a day and I progress in a significant way
Why do either when you can do 3+ hours a day?
@@judia3719 the problem with 3 hours a day is that very few people will be able to last for the duration, you will do that for a month and then you will get tired and give up.
@@exakaume5955 on the contrary, I get SAD when my hours are up XD
Agreed, you should start small to create the habit that is a good technique, you can always ramp up the time as you get used to it :)
Applies to learning guitar but not digital sculpting. Can't even open the program in 10 minutes.
Hope you guys didn't stop the video after the talk, otherwise you will miss the oddly satisfying sped up sculpt of the hair curls :O
Great stuff! I am learning Zbrush and need to sculpt daily.
That is great to hear, keep at it @Wilhelm!
Go do a second one @Kozmobot :)!
As a newbie myself, i tried doing speedsculpts after your recommendation. And i would say if you are a complete beginner as me, then you should focus on normal projects, where you focus on small details, but it would be also extremely helpful if you once or twice a week do some speed sculpting, just to refine your skills. So i would recommend you just to mix both of these styles of sculpting.
very nice YanSulpts!
First nose=3:23hs
Second one= 1:15hs
The third= 30m
well... in 2 days i can make a perfect nose 7w7
3 days with mouths... and i'm going to make some eyes now :)
Nice GG!
Huh, never used Blender but looks like this new version has got some good tools
It does :)
For the last days, I binge-watched so many of your videos, although I never touched Blender (but it's already installed for one or two years and everytime updated 😅). Yesterday I made my first two 3D-models - your vid about the stylized male head gave me the kick to try it finally out. And now I'm so excited and want to learn so much more. So I purchased your two tutorials! 😁 And I also had to buy your 27h making of The Witch to observe the process! I hope my 2d drawing experiences speed the learning process up so that I can create good stuff in 3d too. Your vids helped me already so much more than some other tutorials on YT! I thank you so much for all your work and effort! 💗
I do think 2d skills help a lot, glad you are enjoying my content!!
Nice series man, Ive been working in the industry for the last 3 years and everyday something new still hits u in the face like a truck. Its nice to hear such verbal notes( like a podcast basically) when ur sitting in front of a problem/new skill/art stly/element.
i guess i just wanted to say keep making such content as it really helps the morale at times.
Thanks man i will keep making content like this, hope you are enjoying the industry :)
@@yansculpts heh yea im a 5 year old child in the cg world i guess
Yeah I really feel like by the end of sculpt Jan, my work was deteriorating.
At the begging of the month I felt like I was learning new skills everyday, and sculpting things I wouldn't normally try to.
But by the end I was getting to a point where I didn't want to go for anything too ambitious and have no hope of being happy with what I put out, nor did I want to just do what I already knew I could do well quickly, and put out a rushed, lower quality version of it.
So instead I just began narrowing my scope tremendously, both in what I'd try to sculpt and the techniques I'd use.
Sometimes my passion is stoked by just focusing 100% on a folio piece for 2 months, inspiring me try new techniques and find solutions to problems, while tryna force several hours a day of throw away sketches does nothing for me.
There's definitely a balance to be struck.
For sure. There is only so much i can explain in one video, i actually plan to cover more subjects related to this one, one of them covering what you went through. The thing is no matter what method you use, you are bound to hit road blocks and these blocks might vary depending on the person. When you hit one, you should take a step back and asses what the problem is and find a solution for it.
It might not have been very clear but i did not intend to say that speed sculpts is the only practice you should do, you should simply set aside time for it to your daily practice. Focused studies and projects should not be discarded, they are essential as well
@@yansculpts I'm with you, speed sculpts are an indispensable method of rapid development.
My comment was an addition to the suggestion you made that if done wrong it can harm your development.
There is a lot I could say, but just as it's hard to get it all in a video, that's perhaps more true for a youtube comment.
So I'll' leave it at that, and look forward to your future content on the subject.
All the best o>
This video is really helping ! It's been a year or 2 since I'm telling me "you should really do speed sculpts to improve yourself and work faster" and I always start and stop a week after ... This video shows clearly the benefits to do it every day and you have motivated me !
Glad it did, hopefully it got you started again!
i've made a couple little sculptures on nomadsculpt a couple weeks ago but haven't done any since, and while i can't keep routines this inspires me to do it more regularly, so thank you!!
Finally a reasonable talk on this subject. I always felt like artists used speed sculpting mostly to show off, not necessarily in a way that benefits them or simply for practicing.
Thanks so much for this video. ^_^
Pair this up with Proko's "Improve Your Sketching Speed - 5 Minute Concept Design" and boom, mind blow.
Welcome xD!
Been a while since I've watched one of your videos (just been so busy...), but I can see your still improving constantly, your really developing your own art style, keep it up my man!
How dare you JIM, make time xD! I joke, glad to see you here ;). You are improving constantly yourself, and thanks!
This is great advice, i did incorporate something like this last year but i did it wrong, instead of starting a new project everyday i had kept on improving only one project, and i didn't set a timer, because that's what makes me stay focused.
Thanks Yan, this is a great opportunity to hop back in and level up. Great content as usual.
Thank you, best of luck to your new attempt at doing this!
I couldn't agree more. Setting a goal time to do x as fast and perfect as possible does help me with many things including art.
I think you mean you couldn't agree more? From what you said after
@@yansculpts woops oh I'm sorry XD
I love you attitude. I'm gonna be honest, I don't watch most of your speed sculpts. I subbed because I was interested to see what a blender sculpt artist had to say about sculpting, so stuff like this is what I'm mostly interested in! Looking forward to more tips for aspiring artists, as I'm hoping to be able to start doing this myself at some point when I get a bit more of time :)
Thanks Lucas, more tips and advice will come!
This is such mood booster, can't wait to get back to 3D environment modeling again. Thanks!
Welcome!
I am glad you made this video. This concept doesn't only apply to sculpting as well. I myself am not a sculpter yet as the idea seems intimidating, but I do draw digitally. I usually do some work once a week, but this video gave me a new perspective on how I should work. I will be keeping this in mind, thank you!
Welcome!
Good day Yan I watched the whole video and sadly I would like to make some points. This process is actually called sketching in traditional arts and it is a very powerful tool to harness your skills, every tip you gave was 100% good and I could not agree with you more. Practise makes perfection. The only thing I would like to share is that you need some corrective, feed back or whatever, other artists on same level should comment on your work and give out their opinion, not to change your current "sketch" but to improve upon the next one. While I was studding arts we were told to make 50 sketches every day, hands, feet, legs, body, whole models just to be able to capture the movement the poses and the feel of the body. So great video!
Thanks :)
One thing I have learned over the years was to use a technique with guitar playing which directly transfers to anything your learning. Start learning subject A, after a bit and you start feeling stress or your not learning take a 5 min break or 10 mins, come back to it. You will be amazed how fast your mind adapts and the stress is gone, learning almost anything. This has worked for me playing guitar for years and in my sculpting. The problem is life distractors and finding the time, most times just like practicing guitar we tend to make tons of excuses why should not do it.
I watched the whole video! Or at least listened and heard the part about people skipping through. I’m currently developing my technique and have been learning a lot from these as well as your Gumroad resources, great stuff!
Thanks!
@@yansculpts You are a man of your word, you do respond to comments! Keep chasing the dream, dude!
Your tutorial are very thorough and clear. I think if you keep updating sculpting tutorials 100k will come in no time. Especially the finishing touch Blender can do after sculpting
Tutorials are tricky to make right now because 2.8 is still in beta but i will definitely make some when it becomes stable!
Love your video Yan and always appreciate the advice.
i try these things every so often but always run out of energy since im used to being disciplined.
A video i would love to see is a months worth of sculpt idea starting small and easy and very slowly ramping up.
a little like sculpjanuary but instead each idea is meant to go from super easy up to intermediate.
e.g. day 1 sculpt a apple or fruit, day 15 sculpt eye nose and mouth, day 30 sculpt upper torso and head. start super easy and build up real slow.
i think to many people like me immediately go straight for the full head and put themselves off by starting to hard.
Just a suggestion, but i love your work no matter what you do as its so helpful to us stragglers.
A good suggestion, i do have something similar in mind because i got similar comments on that.
Just got into sculpting in blender and your channel is sooo cool! Thanks for all the golden content 💪💪💪
Beautiful character! Your current formula that you have for these videos is perfect too.
Thanks!
Full respect also for getting good at blender sculpting, kinda had my doubts about it for sculpting, but this gives me confidence
Thanks :)
haven't sculpted in months should I feel bad?
How dare you! Sculpting is life!!
YanSculpts :(
No but for real I really wanna dive into 3D again
@@ThunderDraws Nothing is stopping you. go for it!
Same
Great! I actually have done some face speed sculpts months ago but stopped after 22 days, burn out reasons, made the mistake of trying to start out with 2 hours each and zero knowledge of head anatomy. Some of the lasts ones was actually pretty good compared to my first tries, but back then I didn't have have the resilience to push myself for it everyday. Thanks for the tips, I'll start to try again first thing tomorrow morning. :D
Hope you started and stuck to it. I found that we never get it right from the first time anyways, everytime we fail we figure out why and try again till we get it right ;)
@@yansculpts Yeah, I'm still doing it daily! First one was really bad, but the 10th try was very good in comparison. I'll tweet you both side by side later, feel like I've improved a lot already. :D
This is great practice which makes you memorize more and even think more about the details in the process. I did alot when I was learning Zbrush and I am still doing it cause learning never ends wherever you are and whatever software you use.:)
Agreed!
I gotta get back into this. Speed sculpt here i come! Thank you.
Welcome!
Not a sculpter, nor do I intent to start sculpting for at least a year, but I gotta say that this video and advices are great, I always love to check some inspiration like this occasionally, just to refresh and stay on the right path :)
So glad I found this video in Blender facebook group. Cheers
Cheers man!
You are so good, I animate in 2D, Trying to learn 3D, your channel is very helpful
Thanks, hope you get everything you need in the channel!
Yes please... More videos about speed sculpting. I would love to see you work in real time.
Thanks will do :)
What this all sounds to me is iterations, what Yan wants you to understand is where you stand in the timeline, YOUR timeline. This guy knows polygon sculpt, this other guy knows metaball sculpt process, this other guy yet knows a good technique on how to approach brows, so much so he finally understand a way to even start from brows, focusing on the original emotion he had in mind and then sculpting everything from that point out. Yan, and all the others have their own exploration done on sculpting and have their own unique history about it and what is brand new flash news for them might just be YOUR last week's discovery, a discovery that you might've explored enough to fully understand, and what happens when you 'fully' understand something ? It means anyone can come at you with a bunch of confusion about something and YOU wouldn't be confused AT ALL simply because you already know about that process, that configuration of things, that load of information, and you see from your INNER EYE everything that needs to be seen and understood, you get at the core ESSENCE of the understanding you have and from which you are finally able to get through from anywhere to anywhere, that is ultimately the master's path. Simply said, you don't know until you do know. Not knowing tells you what you need to know. Knowing tells you which way to go. If you don't know where to go, you need to explore/know something more in depths. If you do know where to go well that's it, you just need to do what needs to be done. XD Njoy ! Tks Yan !
I enjoyed the read thanks and welcome ;)
I almost never use sculpt mode unless I really have to. But, this made me want to try more.
Glad it did, sculpting is super fun and useful!
I make obscure cartoon characters from memory (usually Simpsons characters or Futurama aliens) as practice because I can always have something new to do and in the end I have a fleet of futurama and Simpsons characters I can put in the derpiest render ever
Inspiring!! Loving the skills & tips. Thnx!!
This Video just opened my eyes. I will try to integrate Speed Sculpting into my daily routine now. Thank you Yan :)
Welcome!!
Great video! I'm really impressed by the lips! I have so much trouble trying to get that right (or at least look right to me). I hope to learn as much as I can with these tips. Keep up the good work!
Thanks! It is all about practicing what you are not good at till you are :)
Thanks for this. Great info! Im new to sculpting always a poly modeler so this is quite a change. Tried a lil of Zbrush but do not like interface. Started blender awhile back and love thw new sculpting features. Trying to cartoonize my wife but having trouble NOT making it too real. This will help me do that cuz im doing all the things you said we shouldnt. So thanks again. I will pump out more without trying to be too serious or perfect!👍🏽
I needed this. I been spending my days at work thinking about making my own statue figures I can't find on the internet. So I need to start trying for 30 min making torsos
I don't disagree with the video, but still I'd like to add- What helped me tremendously from raw beginner (in 3D modeling, not beginner animator/developer) was the reverse. Having a specific published personal game/video/project in mind, and taking it as slow as necessary with no pressure. If it's your first time, there is nothing NOTHING wrong with spending 30 days on a sculpt. (I can hear experienced artist screaming NO THAT'S WRONG!) But let me explain. I'm talking brand new beginner making an anatomically correct creature and working through how to retopologize, project, and bake when figuring out how to attach teeth/tongue from IMM, problems with too high poly counts causing the model to be broken up into parts- all those learning phases and tiny steps take time. What you should do is watch the video on zpheres- make your base model with spheres. Try 'animating' it and think of your end goal poses. Turn it into a really horrible looking abomination of a mesh. Dynamesh it, sculpt on it, keep referring to tutorials, sculpt some more, install a reference ap like pure ref, find loads of references, keep working at it and checking sculpting videos and working at it and asking questions until the fully rigged beastly creature with its sexy alpha maps, working tongue teeth and wings, is right there in front of you 40 days later. Now you know everything you really 'need' to know and can start speed sculpting different things while studying figure sculpting.
Yeah pros can spend 1 day finding references and not so long making a concept sculpt and retopologize the whole thing in 4 hours. You can't just yet- that's fine. Just take it slow and learn every day and build and build until you are just as good. Watch heaps of videos but not too much or you'll forget all the techniques. Which is why a specific goal is important. You won't forget.
All options are welcome, had a good read thanks for sharing yours :)
Thanks man, i haven't sculpted in awhile and this inspired me to sculpt.
Welcome!
im going to try and update this every day... ive been using blender for about a couple weeks now and dont ever do sculpting... so lets do this...
Day 1... well its night time right now... so im really tired but i want to do something...
Goal: hand
amount complexity: Not Complex maybe even a simple mitten shape...
End Result: *Still working on it*
Looking forward to your video on some of these techniques... mainly how you pull geometry out so quickly. When I use that snake hook, I get a little horn.. not an arm. :P
haha yeah i feel like a lot of people struggle on how to use the brushes and their options, i should do a video on that.
Dear Yan, someone recommended to me your channel on Blender discord and this is your first video I watched (and I liked it, and I agree with you on it in general). Btw, I don't do CG for a job or plan to, but rather do it as a hobby and for pet projects. So I'm from the beginning ready to forget about my CG work though only upto a point. Since a person spends a way bit of time/energy on any CG or work, he would naturally have attachment to it. So asking people to forget about it is kinda okay (given the purpose that they don't get overly attached) yet not okay, and furthermore suggesting to throw it away 'everytime' might not be the best advice/solution either.
1. I would practice speed sculpting when I can, create some wacky things as well as some planned things, and put a stop to it when the time limit is exhausted (well a few minutes +- is natural given human psychology), but not throw it away completely. Instead, I would put it in a different folder than my usual blender files so that it doesn't show up in my recent work, hence acheiving the objective of being able to 'discard' something.
2. Next, I can revisit my part 'failures' or 'ugly ones' as some may call it after a prolonged time, similar to looking at 5-10 year old photo of yourself, so as to acheive the objective of long term differentiation. It is like the case of human height. One is not able to observe the subtle changes in the height of a person if you are around them everyday. But if you meet them after a long time, you can understand the difference quiet clearly. It has its benefits.
3. Also, perhaps after 2-3 years, one may have better CG skills, but may in turn find themselves lacking in the dept of 'imagination' or 'original concept'. Looking at your old work (which you had forgotten about) gives you a certain benefits in this case. Besides, it is possible to turn those near 'failures' into something new now with little effort compared to starting from scratch. Salvaging & Recycling is an important human activity!
On a side note, please leave your finished product for a bit longer towards the end of the video (instead of ending the video short). It would be helpful. 20-30 seconds is not a big change on your side, but it is a significant one for the eye of those who watched the video attentively. Thank you again for your hardwork.
Here is my artstation profile: www.artstation.com/someab , I would be happy to keep in touch with you. Good Day.
Hey!
It isn't about throwing away your work, it is about detaching yourself from you individual artwork. I say this from personal experience and from what i see in most artists. It is almost as if we think that that one art we create defines us, but it is only a means to an end, adding points to our level. This was not the focus of this video so i didn't really go into that, but it is perfectly fine to keep your work to see your improvement, you don't have to actually delete them.
Thank you very much for this awesome channel,i am a beginner in blender and i am learning a lot of things. Keep it up!!!
Welcome and will do!
Thanks for all your advices, I jut a beginner but see your videos encourage me to try new things. I would like to see more of your sculptures in Skectchaf to check them closely and try to do it by myself, thanks for everything and I will be waiting for your next video.
Welcome, will plan a new video soon i was out of town :)
I think I'm gonna try and start doing speed sculpts on weekends (Saturday and Sunday), instead of 1 per every day of the week. Committing to one speed sculpt per day can get hectic for me since I need to work on 3 Animated shorts until April.
For sure, 2 days is better than none, you can always increase that in the future when you get used to it and you find more time :)
"create some crappy sculpts to start with if that's what gets you going"
So just do what I normally do?
This is amazing work I might have to try this idea
Go for it!
Thank you, TH-cam for the good recommendation. Glad I clicked, interested to see more and learn more so I subscribed. Honestly, I'm going to try this over the summer. I have a thesis coming up in Gameart soon and I have to make 3D models and I want to improve A LOT before I get to that point.
Sort of related: Is Blender better to use than Zbrush? Less focus on one free and one is expensive which is a better program overall for modeling/sculpting?
Zbrush is a powerful program that focuses on sculpting, blender is also a powerful program but its sculpting tools aren't on par by themselves. I think it holds up strongly if you know how to use the program as a whole and utilise its many functions to work with the sculpting, so it is probably a more unorthodox way but it can yield great results.
At the end of the day use which ever you prefer, they are just tools, like different brands of pencils
@@yansculpts Thank you for the response and I'll keep that in mind. I appreciate it.
nice explaination off what it is
would realy like to see a tutorial on how to set up the workspace for such a quick projekt
I was supposed to do it a week ago but got very sick (still am) and was out of the country, i will make it when i get the chance!
Like always, awesome. Sculpting and advise.
Thanks!
i loved the video and all but man the last song, i loved it too, lol
Haha, music from epidimic sound ;)
up to 30 min a day is about perfect and even more if this is your passion
yup :)
I'm gonna try it!
Go for it!
You can sculpt soooooo good 😱
Thank you!
Speed Art seems like a brilliant way to "Fail Faster". Which means that when it is done right it can cause incredible progress in ones skills.
Haha i see what you mean
Good video on building habits in general 👍
Thanks :)
How to hide ?
the circle XYZ axis & camera control (on top Right corner)
like your left viewport ?
sculpting looks really impressive in Blender! I'm a longtime user of zbrush for sculpting and recently learning blender. It's definitely cool to see blender being so capable, and the ability to have multiple views of your sculpt is something I've always dreamed about in zbrush. Have you ever sculpted in zbrush and if so, how do you compare the two?
Thanks, great video!
Long time ago, i don't really compare them because to get the best of either you need to sculpt in a different way. Zbrush has its strong points and so does Blender :)
Great advice. Thanks Yan. Btw, How long did you give yourself to do this speed sculpt?
By the end of the talk i think i was around 2 hours where i would usually call the session done, I added an hour or 2 to refine her and prep her for the video, that part i would usually not do in a speed sculpt.
The speed sculpts vary though, sometimes i go further in the same amount of time sometimes i get worse results, almost embarrassing haha. Many factors vary but you shouldn't worry what you get in that time, as explained in the video.
i think wiill be great that if you make a short animation too in blender from sculptures that you make. i very waiting for that. :)
yeah it would be fun!
Thank you for this Yan!
Welcome!
I think i payed more attention to the sculpt than the actual explaination.
And yet... no clue on transforming the initial cube into a person.
BTW: I never thought of moving an arm in that way 4:04
Hahaha
Great advice, I'm gonna try to do it daily! Do you have a beginner's guide to sculpting? I really wanna know how you use each tool.
This video should be enough to get you started: th-cam.com/video/IG1IEpU5VAw/w-d-xo.html
Hey buddy i love your videos. I have actually started learning blender by watching your videos.
The only thing is that i wanna learn sculpting but i can find a tutorial video. And i am a student so i cant really afford gumroad videos.
I will be really great if you could put a tutorial series on youtube for that so that it will help me and a lot of people like.
Otherwise i really love your work and thanks a lot for all the other free things you have tought me!! Thanks man!
No worries the channel is still young, many videos to come!
I mean I will probably never ever be a sculpter, but DAMN this looks so awesome!
Haha if you are interested it is a skill that is learnt ;)
Love your work dude! Definitely going to check out more of your stuff. 2 questions though! Can you do some videos on ZBrush? Like how to set up for sculpting a model etc....and what is that song in the background!? Especially the french cafe instrumental part which sounds like it's from Ratatouille.
I dono the names but i get my music from epidimic sound with a subscription, as for zbrush dono if enough of my audience would be interested so maybe not right now
I sketch a lot. Speed Sculpting is no different, just in 3D.
The first session of Speed sculpting should be about getting familiar with the process, developing your own work flow, learning the program you are using, even learning to work with and around the limitations of your hardware.
Following sessions should start hitting on aspects of a model you are not familiar with. Simple enough. But this can be as focused as mastering the details on an eye, a finger, a single muscle group. making mechanical objects and so on.
Eventually you are working on doing completed figures and objects. IF you draw of paint you will want to be working toward possibly duplicating you 2D work in 3D, if for no other reason than to give your targets to hit.
You will go on to finalizing projects, making animation ready character models and the like.
It does not end but most importantly this is supposed to be fun, and if your style and.or range evolves all the better.
Well said :)
Hi, I have been following you for a while now and your work is really great. Could you please make a deep tutorial on how to make clothes the way you do? What I do is to extract mask but some times it lead to a impossible to fix model.
Damn you scared me in the end.
After such calm music suddenly your voice and so loud.
It did that to me as well!
man how you can do that with a ball?!, you're an awesome person
this guy surely knows his anatomy
Kina xD
@YanSculpts I have question : When you started your adventure with the blender, what did you start with, what was your starting point that it was this style and not another, and so on
thanks for your tips , I was missed about some study methods .. so i gonna start doing some weeks with speedsculps and see the progress .. thanks =D (ps: srry about my english ^^ )
No worries, welcome!
Can you make a video on different types of graphics tablets about their features, buttons, components, use etc.?
Bimal Hessa I think he already did a video on that.
I can only do a video on the tablets i've tried. I have one on huion and i compared it a bit to my wacom. I will probably review a new tablet soon
you have to know all commands before you can speed through them! and you cant speed through that so much. but what i get from this is that one should not lag or be lazy or be to slow, in ones modeling. on the other hand one can only put more thought into his work only if taking the time. ever heard the term speed kills.
You got some of my points across but maybe not all. This is a method of practicing to be added to your daily work, but it is not to replace other methods. For example, slow focused studies is still important. You just learn different things from each method.
Also, speed by itself is not good as i said in the video, it can be and usually is mistaken for being sloppy, which is understandable. Thanks for your feedback :)
the things you have mentioned in the video are on point sculpting drawing etc doing these things every day will help you! But i do have to disagree with you on one point "these sculpts are going into the trash next to your pg18 mp4's" (right how did you know about those....) but showing your art to people is in my opinion also a good way to improve. people can see mistakes and errors you might not. and i think im not alone. it's a great video though. using these tips myself aswell!
eriyo2000 Well but speedsculpts need that freedom of "Its only practice"... People work entirely different when they know that others will see this later.
Normally you'd be right... but getting other opinions should really be seperated from speedsculpts. You dont want anything restrictive except the time.
Only that way you get better very very fuckin fast. Speedsculpting daily is POWERFULL! Do that half a year and you can work in the industry, no joke. But if you as an example are a dude who always wants to sculpt hot chicks, it probably would be best for you to sculpt loads of hot chicks. That keeps motivated and improves the fastest simply because you do what you yourself like. If you now know that others will check out your works, you quickly stop doing just hot chicks and your motivation lacks.
DAILY work requires loooads of motivation! That shit is not easy. If you're not 100% behind what you're doing, you waste time and efficiency in getting better with this method + you will most definitely stop working daily. Normally others are a huge bockade for chosing what you do......
As Benhard explained, if you have in mind that you will show it to people it might stiffen your work which can cause several issues. You can still share for feedback of course just don't keep that in mind when sculpting. Plus, you can always ask feedback for focused studies/sculpts, something i plan to cover on the channel as well.
Yes please make more tutorials
All in time :)
Great video! I am going to follow you from now on and proceed watching some more videos of yours.
Could you share your screen layout for sculpting? It looks great!
It is blender 2.8, the beta version
Great vid Yan. I have a question about traditional modelling. I began as a low-polygon modeller, and I am now getting into sculpting. Essentially I am planning to model over my low polygon meshes. I can make virtually anything with polygonal modelling, and now that I'm learning sculpting I'm hung up on the small details. Like muscles/nails ect. Do you have any tips for how to sculpt over a low poly model? Thanks :)
Well if you want to sculpt fine details you will have to add geometry to your low poly models either way, you can do that by entering dynamic topology which will break your topology, or use multi resolution modifier
@@yansculpts thanks, multires was exactly what I needed!
So when it comes to drawing it would be: time yourself to do quick sketches?
Well said Lucky!
what was the music/song that you played on the background during the speed timelapse?
can we get that video about streamlining starting to speedsculpt, making it easy to start?
I wanted to start it for a long time so i cant wait to see speed sculpt tips video :) ( by the time you made it i probably already started :P) but i also wanted to record the sculpts but i don't know which software to use i already tried obs but it doesn't seams to work with blender for some reason :/ what are you using to make videos?
OBS is what i use, it should work :O?
Fantastic! Thank You :) !
welcome!
Thank you Yan for the advice, I think daily practice is the golden road to improvement. I am trying since a few weeks and it feels good to hear that from you.
I'm interested in the character's anatomy, have you a suggestion too on what I should read in order to begin ? (something like Color and Light for color)
And it's not easy to practice on a laptop. What kind of hardware you guys pros are using, main specs, ...?
Thanks
I loved the book classic human anatomy and figure drawing by mh, both great!
As for hardware your best bet is to ask a blender group on fb
@@yansculpts thank you I'll check it out.
I think the hardware depends on the level of the artist...
FYI, I read this article from a zbrush artist: www.zbrushguides.com/3d-workspace-and-pc-overview/
He updated his worstation and it's really amazing..
cool never knew you can do it in blender
Yup :)
Any tips on setting goals like trying to improve speed? How long does it take you to sculpt a character like the one in the video if its a speed sculpt?
Will depend there is no rule on how long it takes, for example the afro girl took me 1h30mins i think (i mention it in that vdieo) but that is not always the results i get in that timeframe. You learn by practice no way around it
I have a doubt, it is bad try to sculpt with a mouse? because a guy told me that I should buy a drawing tablet with his pen, and thanks for the video that really looks awesome and more awesome how you try and try to get the curls in the way that you want to be!!!
th-cam.com/video/R1CaEph3DTU/w-d-xo.html watch this :)
Come from Artstation, this is very helpful, thank you!
Welcome!
Hey there! A late comment from a guy who just started learning Blender 2.8. I was wondering if you used a reference for this or just sculpted the body from memory? I'm gonna start the sculpting lessons soon and I'm eager to learn.
6 seconds and im already crying
haha
impressive
Thanks so much for this video! I really would like a more detailed video!
Welcome, more to come soon!
Great video, as always.
Well, I really wanna start doing art, hopefully in blender, but it just doesn't work. I mean, I know, it's never easy when beginning, and crappy art is also something if I practice, but I really don't know how to start.
I saw your ear for beginners tutorial and did one, and that was ok for the beginning. But now what? Continue practice the ear? Refine the first one? Go to another part of the face? The whole face? The head shape? Hands, bodies, body types, women, fictional, fan art, idk. Do you have some tips? Pls, do a video about this.
Oh, and about the speed sculpting, if I am a beginner, should I do those?
I understand your struggle, i will make a video on this for sure!
I would like to ask how can i start speed sculps. I been open Zbrush the last 3 or 4 days and doing nothing, i set on the chair, see the screen i say "what the f*ck can i do?" It's like, "okey, i want to do something for practice purpose" and at the same time i'm saying "i dony know what to do".
Should i look for concept arts? Blueprints? I'm stuck and i dont get an idea of how to make a progress
I know that for sculping its recommended to have a wacom board and almost everyone who is really successful at sculpting is using a wacom board. I don't have a wacom board myself but i have tried one before and it was extremly hard to even just move the mouse cursor how i wanted it and i was not able to sculpt anything so i believe i stick to the mouse even tho my sculpting with mouse is terrible too. But i'm just curious, how good can you sculpt by using the mouse? Any chance to you could make a video of sculpting by only using the mouse? i'd love to see it because i cant find anyone else who have done it and you're the best sculpter i know i youtube
I should try it but it still wouldn't be a fair comparrision, because to truly know i should sculpt with the mouse for a few months which i probably wont xD I do advice your to watch this video: th-cam.com/video/R1CaEph3DTU/w-d-xo.html
As someone how has never sculpted before I have a question, do u use a mouse or a tablet?
FlamingoBear He's almost certainly using a tablet for this, it's a lot more difficult using a mouse.
th-cam.com/video/R1CaEph3DTU/w-d-xo.html here