I’ve been challenging myself with new projects lately, attempting to stretch my creative horizons. For September, I decided to participate in Sculptember 2019. I would complete a new speed sculpt each day of the month based on a specific list of prompts.
That’s thirty sculpts in thirty days.
But that didn’t seem challenging enough, so I decided to do it with a beta1 version of Blender. I’m familiar with ZBrush2, but I’d been hearing great things about the new sculpt tools in Blender 2.81 and wanted to give them a shot.
How did I do? Quite well, I think. Each day after work I’d download the latest build of Blender and start crackin’ on the prompt du jour.
Not only did I complete the challenge, I feel like I finished stronger than I started. Blender got more stable each day, and my comfort in using the new voxel remeshing, and other new sculpt tools, were improving just as rapidly.
So here they are, all thirty sculpts from the month of September. I have my favorites, what are yours?
If you’re curious, here’s my typical process when creating a sculpt.
That’s it. I had a blast doing these pieces. I’ve been very impressed with Blender’s new sculpting tools and (probably by 2.82) could see forsaking ZBrush and using Blender as my go-to sculpting tool.
Oh, it looks like there’s a “SculptJanuary” challenge too – This one was so fun, I think I’ll have to do it. By then I guess I can test Blender 2.82.
Alpha, actually. Blender 2.81 didn’t officially reach “beta” until October. ↩︎
I took Shane Olson’s awesome course on ZBrush, and re-sculpted the Drumpf game model with that knowledge – I highly recommend signing up if you’re interested in sculpting stylized characters using ZBrush. Or Blender, I guess, since my knowledge transferred pretty well. ↩︎
As in, Behind the Scenes, not the Korean boy band. ↩︎