Figured I'm hardly qualified for the "First Sculpts" thread any more and, tbh, I kinda like that being for first sculpts so I figured I might as well make my own sketchbook vanity thread like they seem to do everywhere else that 3d modelling and forums collide.
I'll post my crap in here. You guys can look at it and chuckle and hopefully start your own thread so's I don't feel like I'm the only attention whore in the place!
Back to anatomy practice. Blocking in from memory as much as I could, then pulled up a ref to finish off. I've got a fair bit of the torso and upper arms committed to memory now. Head was just a mess about with expression, rather than any serious attempt to learn anything.
So the fun thing about anatomy for me is that the more I learn, the more a know how to build things out of biology. Even things that don't exist, like a skull with one eye socket. It's a good laugh to mix it up and figure out how a cyclops might be wired together.
I've given him two eyebrows, though, because most cyclopses (cyclopi?) I've seen have one and I'm thinking that might limit your options when it comes to expressions.
More messing with anatomy. Tried to do everything in a different order and a different way than I usually do it by way of snapping me out of any bad habits I might have fallen into. Started with the torso and then built the head a completely different way. Ended up with a beak just cuz. Not happy with the end result, since he looks really square from the front but as an exercise I'm pretty pleased it's served it's purpose.
Thanks dude. Eyes are easy to me, dunno why. Used to be the same with photoshop. Got to a stage years back where I had to force myself to leave the eyes blocked in until the rest of the face was done or else the rest of the face just plain never got done.
Now that I'm into sculpting I'm finding I need to apply the same formula. If I detail the eyes too soon I lose motivation to do the rest. It's like something in my subconscious is saying, "Yeah, it's looking at me now, mission accomplished"
Case in point. Note how level of detail is inversely proportional to distance from eyes. This was not a stylistic choice, I just lost interest once I had the eyes sorted.