ulliroyal Sketchbook

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Trying to update my thumbnail…

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sculpting doodle with lots of material and light hints from the admired Michalis:

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I followed the great tutorial from Kent Trammell on Blendercookie about creating realistic head. Well, still needs a little bit of work.

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After trying a lot with blueprints and photos for the car i grew up in, i found out that i don’t have the patience to run through that difficile process again. But i wanted that picture. So I downloaded http://sketchup.google.com/3dwarehouse/details?mid=33613b4072f7083ada806c4df2e1e4e3&prevstart=0and cleaned it up quick and dirty.

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[joekneale]

Really cool work. I love the raybans.

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Asymmetric sculpt with metaballs base - it is hard for me to really improve the sculpt by refining it, but I love it in this early stage

And accidentally deleted Sun glasses:

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Inspired by Doris’ great chimpanzee study i enter the challenge:)
My approach:

• just imaganation, no further reference - since i saw enough monkeys in my life i thought
• starting with the default icosphere as asymmetric base mesh
• Symmetrize only once after 10 minutes of sculpting

and playing around with the great quick preferences for the lights
btw i could not find any use for the specular values in the quick preferences.

Hope you enjoy it

A cycles “beauty” render with some procedural pore bump:

Sideview:

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Testing my signature and some doodles …

[michalis]

The monkey, what a character!
Great flow of shapes, Love it!

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@michalis

The monkey, what a character!
Great flow of shapes, Love it!

Thanks Mate !!
I love looking at him too - He is so confident, strong and friendly.

I actually did almost everything on him twice (left/right), since I found out that symmetry on is not only “half the fun” as you said, it is often also only half the truth.

So I was trying to achieve some symmetry instead of taking it as a boring feature.

Next step for me is now to improve my one hand work flow, making my toe a control pusher, finally :),

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Conversation:

@ulliroyal

This is simply virtuous …

… Or as Dali said:

“Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad.”

I guess “blocking” is a kind of drawing.

@michalis

thanks man
indeed, blocking is the essence of drawing.
It is a term used a lot these days. In the 3d sculpting world.
A quiz on using shapes forms.
What matters (to you) what’s not.
Usually we add a lot of elements, which we have seen but not understood them.
Naturalism, the worse style of art.
Behind these so called “naturalistic” masterpieces, drawing is hidden.
These masters driving us to illusions, that naturalistic details really matter.
A visit to the british museum, in front of the elgin marbles, made it clear to me.
No hands, broken or lost heads, completely ruined, 80% of the composition lost, after the explosion of parthenon (Morozini, history), They stand in front of us great as ever. It is the abstract composition of these amazing shapes, it is a bulletproof thing.

ulli learns to block:

Lights are crucial in that flat projection of a sculpt. Turn the sun a few degrees and Sean Connery becomes Lenin.

And some snake hook and presentation efforts:

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Well I wanted to sculpt a woman. This is what I got from cycles :

somewhat later:

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working on a relief shader, for pointcloud mountain

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Relief Maker WIP

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Reliefmaker iLu edition doodles

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Trying to give the C from my OCD (obsessive-compulsive disorder) a face.