I've been spending some time lately doing arch viz, since it's really the only thing you can hope to get for freelance, and boy howdy, would I like some freelance. Anyway, after like 3 weeks of playing around with that stuff, I was DYING to get back into sculpting again, so I just kinda started doodling this. When I finished, I decided, "why not throw on a quick poly paint?" and so I did that too. After that, I thought to myself, "self, I've been spending a lot of time with Mental Ray learning how to light and render with physically based lighting, perhaps I should toss this dude into a scene" and so I did that too. All in all, I spent maybe two and a half hours on this, every moment of which was spent with me proclaiming "I'VE MISSED YOU SCULPTING!!!"
So in summary: bust of Kilowog - A member of the Green Lantern Corps. Modeled / textured / lit / rendered in about 2.5 - 3 hours, rendered in mentalRay. Feel free to C&C if you so desire, but like I said, this was just a doodle, and as such, there's not much chance of me going back to work on it.
Kilowog
I should really move on and start doing studies of other parts of the body, or maybe cloth, but oh well. For now, you get another bust. Did this one as a test in ZBrush4. It is awesome by the way, just in case you didn't know. Also a bit of practice for texturing, since I never end up doing them... Anyway, more to come soonish, model sheet after the break, etc, etc, etc.
Yet Another Head Sculpt
So first of all: first new post in forever. Sorry about that. I am working on a new big project; I'll post that when the sculpt is done. In the meantime you get this.
I played way too much Red Dead Redemption when it came out, and decided to model Marston. I ended up making his face kinda more muscular then it should be, and I'd planned on doing the hair in max, but well, you can see that didn't happen. Rather then have this model disappear into the ether, however, I've decided to post it here in it's current state. I plan on going back and at least finishing the sculpt when I'm done my new project, but well, I plan a lot of things... We'll see how it goes.
Johnald Marston
So I haven't traditionally been so great with likenesses. I've started to focus on that, in an effort to improve. This is one such sketch. Angelina Jolie bust; done in about 2 hours, since, like I said, I suck at likenesses at the moment. I'm quite happy with how it turned out.
Likeness Excercise
...It was a monster sketch!
A challenge on the
ZBrushed forums - "Cute Monster". This was my entry. I spent around 3 hours on it. I'm quite happy with how it turned out, given the amount of time I had to work on it before the challenges deadline (it was a weekend challenge, but I only had a few hours Sunday to work on it).
As an aside, I'm working on my next big project, and it's almost done. I'll post soon, when the sculpt is finished. Stay tuned!
It Was A Sketch...
So my friend
Dave Dind was showing some work at the Toronto ComicCon this weekend and ended up snagging like a ton of magic card packs. He gave me 3 of them, cause I was looking to learn how to play. As I was checking through the cards I got, I saw this "
Diabolic Tutor" card, whose art was pretty badass, and so I did the bust over lunch. Total time was probably about 40 minutes.
Diabolic Tutor
Bust done over the course of a few hours today. The initial design was based off an image I found on the internets, but I can't seem to find it now... Oh well. I kinda think he turned out as some kind of amalgam of
Wrex and
Boss Nass. Anyways, ZBrush character sheet after the jump...
Alien Bust
Done today over my lunch hour. I've been working on sculpting more female characters; for a while they were all pretty dudesome.. I think I'm finally catching on though.
Quick Sketch
Another lunchtime project. Started as just a quick head sketch, but I decided to texture it. Made in ZBrush, textured with ZAppLink and just good old fasioned Photohopping too. Rendered with Mental Ray in 3dsMax. It took altogether maybe 3 hours.
Hit the jump for a back view and turntable animation...
African American Male Bust
As all 3 people that read this site know, I just recently had a daughter. As she is not a fan of sleeping while she ought to, I decided to make the best of my time and play around with new ZBrush (3.5 r3, if you're keeping score). Didn't really do anything groundbreaking, just a head study, since I didn't know how much time I'd have to mess around. Anyways, she's finally gone to sleep, which means this sculpt is officially finished! WOOOOOOOOOO! God, I'm tired.
When Life Gives You Lemons...
Spent some time tonight to add the muscles to my skull. I've gone this far, maybe I'll just go ahead and add the skin layer while I'm at it.
Skull Study - Now With More Muscle!
Alright, here goes, first art post on my shiny new blog:
*deep breath*
Human skull study. Done in about 2 and a half hours the other night. I'm pretty happy with how it turned out, especially the teeth, which I kinda hated doing at the time. Hated A LOT. Comments / critiques, internet?
Skull Study
Well hello there, world weary traveler. How'd you get yourself lost in this 'ere part of the internets? What's that? Oh, I'm Dave Boyle, pleasure to meet you. A 3D artist by trade, though you might have already figured that out from having taken a look around. This be my site, "Dave's Digital Doodels", or"3D" for short. Get it? No? *Sigh* well it's a clever pun, but don't worry about that, take a look around tell me what you think. I'm always modeling something, so check back often. Hope to see you back soon!
