Faun Doll- In Progress, Critique Please!

I really like the face so far, especially the shape of the eyes. The droopy look makes her look dreamy

 

Hi! I was just wondering what program you're using! Also wondering if it's okay for me to do some quick draw-overs for some positive critique! I love your drawings and have some feedback to help you get the sculpt a little closer to the drawing.

 

Awesome! Blender is tough and I mostly work in zbrush but my first rec is to try and get those planes of the face mapped out. Your drawing is so cool and has some really interesting sharp planes implied so that’s kind of what I tried to capture in the draw over. I’m happy to keep helping as you make progress

 

OMG i totally get life hitting like a brick these days. One of the things I'm noticing in this screenshot is that you have triangular looking polys, for me I definitely prefer squared off polys when working from low to high poly density. Since i'm not as familiar with Blender please forgive me if I don't have specific tools to help you with this... but I would suggest going to quad shaped polygons, developing the large shapes, then dividing to create more polys as you get more detail!! The shapes are already getting so much closer and with quads you'll be able to avoid lumpiness a lot easier.

I hope this helps, I used my side sculpt of Buffy to show Tris v Quad and how to go from large to small detail as you increase the number of polygons!!




In the low poly state you can get rid of a lot of lumps and get some sharp nice areas of the anatomy in place. As you divide and get more polygons you can then sharpen certain areas (see her nose, eyelids, lower lip) and you can also soften some of those sharp angles to look natural (like her cheekbones, chin, upper nose, etc)

Please let me know if this helps. Again, I think you're making great progress and I think that changing to quad shapes will help so much with getting the look you want!!

 

UGH!! I’m so sorry about that!!! Yeah I often work pretty high poly T.T would murder me in blender!! Well disregard my quads post then. Looking forward to seeing next screen shots!!!

 

YOU ARE SO AMAZING!! seriously fearless!! I am here to answer questions for zbrush any time you need!!!!

 

@PastelCats no pressure but thinking about your Faun and hope everything is going swimmingly!

 

The nose and mouth are looking sharper and really getting your original idea across!! Okay for the eyelids... a trick i use sometimes is placing a different piece in there that is a separate subtool and really defining it before I merge down. It can help get really crisp and clean lines without having to deal with the whole face. I do that with upper and lower lids.

Use H Polish, Trim Dynamic and the pinch brush to get some really crips areas. I hope this helps!!! Let me know if you have more questions about this!

Here's my Buffy sculpt again to show what i mean about separate pieces:

 

Quick tip!!!! H Polish is also really great for filling spaces (like in the back if you need more thickness. Go into the Brush pull down menu (top second from left) and scrolls down to auto masking. Click on automasking to reveal options and turn on "back face mask".

When you hold (alt on mac... and i think windows) it reverses the brush you can can basically FILL the space without effecting the front!!!

Holding Alt with any brush will reverse the effects

Edit: I just created a Discussion thread for questions on ZBrush!! I figured I can help people with tips and tricks if they want

 

Yes! I will make a short image tutorial in the next couple hours brb

 

OKAY so i made a quick and dirty tutorial of my process. Which is a little different (complicated on first look but if you have questions please ask!!)


The image is long so if it doesn't pop up here's the link! https://i.imgur.com/esKzzGC.jpg

 

First of all never apologize to me for being ‘slow’!! Take all the time you need! This is your baby!

Looks like there’s some junk in the mesh and I can’t totally diagnose it but see all those little artifacts? They may have come from the original sphere you extracted from. See if the sphere has some weirdness or an extra shape in there.

If checking that out and trying again doesn’t work

A) make a new fresh eyeball and try again!

B) take your bottom lid and Mirror on the Y axis. I’m not at my computer to make an image but mirror should be under modify topology which is a sub of... either the geometry tab or tool tab... can’t remember at this second. The little teeny tiny xyz you have to click is super tiny on the button in the upper right corner. They’re itty bitty!! Let me know if you need me to make a quick screenshot of stuff tomorrow or next week or whenever!!

Edit: want to add you are FEARLESS this is so difficult and I’m super excited about your progress and cannot wait to see updates (but no pressure haha)

 

Oh my gosh, this is such a beautiful doll! I especially like the soft cheeks. And downturned eyes. I'm not an expert, but I think you should try making the upper eyelid less large and the eyes more inset; they look a little like they're popping out of her head.

Personally, I don't make my eyelids using a sphere. Usually, I take a default cube and then use the extrude region tool to make strips that I then shape around the visible part of the eye.

I can't wait to see your progress on this doll. I love the features!

 

clicked on this thread because I saw it was a faun doll and I adore any sorta animal themed bjd but surprising learned some really neat tips! glad I clicked