Thor is here.

First draft of the main characters head.

Thor

Took ages learning different techniques for hair but now I have a bunch to use for the future, just a case of refining said technique and getting quicker.

Also, need to look into doing better renders.

Hair is a pain

Alright so hair is taking ages for me to get right. I have been messing around with different techniques for the passed few days with different results however trying to bend the sculpt in the way I wanted was getting quite difficult. Problem was, really, that I didn't do a paint-over of the model to help solidify where I want it to go, and now after doing this one (below) I have a good idea on how to sculpt it. 

Also I raised the pupils in a paint-over which made it instantly better (on the model they're dead center). On top of that I've noticed the bags under his eyes are probably a little too big for someone so young so I'll look into that. 

Annnd apparently he looks more like a girl than a boy, which I had my suspicions with so that's another thing I'm going to look into however right now I just want to get this hair looking right. At least the basic shapes and then go from there.

Thor Sculpt, Hair Paint-over. (Ignore the neck)

I'm glad I did this little paintover as it certainly helped solidify where I want to take this model. I'm going to do another one to target the eye lids and lack of boyishness over the weekend.-

Hair

My characters hair is going to be sculpted in so it looks thick rather than using Fibermesh where it is all wiry. 

Hair

Using the standard head model that comes with Zbrush as a base I bulked out the major forms of the hair with a customized Claybuildup brush, refined the flow with an alpha'd Trimdynamic brush and finished up by drawing in some individual hairs with an inverted Dam_standard. 
This came out pretty messy and hectic, there's too much going on for the look I want. So I'm going to rely more on the major shapes and curls of the hair and less on the finer strands as having really detailed hair could distract from the face where really all I want it to do is frame it.

Zbrush Practice

Sculpted this while listening to a podcast on how global warming is a lie. Conspiracies maaan. 

Queen.B

Morning drawings

 Doing the same thing everyday can be boring so I spent this morning drawing.

I think I have a thing for Rams...

'Twisted Tree'

This was a Spitpaint: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1402563099961950/?fref=ts

Time ran out before I could add colour or a scene. I need to get quicker at generating an idea. Considering composition, conscious design and colours/tone is a very hard thing to do when pressed for time but its nice to be forced to think fast. Looking at this now I should have lowered the angle to looking up at the monster as right now he doesn't seem that intimidating, just creepy like a goblin.

On to Zbrush.

Thor

Been drawing Thor some more to help engrave the character into my head so that I can hopefully draw him whenever I want without having to look back at my other drawings.

Also decided this is the overall look for him. Pretty simple, but he's not meant to look incredible, just clean and fresh-faced. The hammer design is just me messing around as the final design for Mjolnir won't be as grave. The ram heads aren't so arbitrary either as according to Norse legend, Thor had two rams that pulled his chariot across the sky; Tanngrisni and Tanngnost, or Gap-tooth and Tooth-grinder respectively.
Not very nice to slap their skulls on his weapon but if I were to go ahead with something like this I would have these made from stone or metal. Like, chiselled n stuff.

Other than more doodling I'm still looking up Zbrush stuff and practicing that. Nothing to show from it as it is all practice stuff so quite ham-handed. I'll have something nice by the end of the week.

24/01/2014

Quick update just to say today has been spent mostly developing Zbrush technique and learning about folds. Yes. Folds.