Learning how to ZBrush Y'all. Part 2

Had some time to jump back into ZBrush and play around with POlypaint on my first sculpt.

Using my first ever ZBrush Sculpt for my first ever foray into POlypaint.

Of course this also meant playing around with the materials. I used a standard skin material with a few tweaks. The eyes are the toy plastic material, also with a few tweaks.

I did not intend to make her look so sad but left it and am going to pretend I did it on purpose from here on out.

I decided to straight paint the eyes with polypaint which was probably a mistake. Dont think I am ever going to do that again. I might try laying down a texture next time around before actually sculpting a full-on eye.

Bad Hair Day

The hair is a mess, literally. It was kind of mishmash of stylistic and realistic so none of the materials really looked right. I ended up going with a modified Soft Plastic material and painted the dark color on top of a blue-ish white. Its interesting but not quite right.

Are you sad because of what I did to your hair?

As you can see I started playing around with rendering as well. Nothing to crazy. Just kept it to one light that I moved around to try and keep that specular reflection on the eye. In the future I need to pay closer attention to the differences when you render. I liked some of the redder areas in the preview but they disappeared a bit when rendering.

What do you think she is looking at?

I tried "painting" a different material on the lips but it was hard for me to control the rendered result vs the preview so I decided against it this time around. I will give it a shot on the next try.

She does not look as sad in this shot. Maybe, in the end, she has come to a quiet contentment in my polypaint skills.

Overall I was fairly happy with the results here. I look forward to getting into Substance painter at some point but its pretty fun just seeing what ZBrush can do out the box.