DIGITAL SCULPTURE

- WEEK 1 -

To be an artist means to work hard and to develop the skill, to be passionate and work with your heart.

The Module '' Digital Sculpting '' is giving us the opportunity to develop new skill directly connected with the Artists.

Digital Sculpting or known as 3D Sculpting has been done with the help of Softwares which offer tools to manipulate the digital object to create a real-life substance.

ZBrush, software developed by '' Pixologic'', will be the one which we will be using to develop and learn new techniques for sculpting objects.

ZBrush by Pixologic: https://pixologic.com/

In WEEK 1 we learned about:

Methods of developing correct facial proportion, through the abstraction methods of Andrew Loomis.
Drawing the skull to focus of anatomical proportion.
Learning the structure and form of the human skull such as the placement of the Zygomatic Arch and how that can help to pin point facial features.

My talent is to draw, so I was learning 10 + years how to have proper vision for drawing, painting with different tools, portrait drawing, anatomy of the face, body anatomy, from drawing real people to fantasy character,I have created my own style. I am really interested in Digital sculpting of human faces and working with the animation of facial expressions.

Examples of my work can be found at :

1. https://www.artstation.com/nikoljulieva

2. https://nikoljulieva.wixsite.com/nikolmanolova

- Exercise 1-

We learned about the anatomy of the face, created an expedition through all the muscles and bones in the skull.

DigitalSculpture_Skull_Drawing_Excercise

ZBrush

As my first 3D Software for sculpting, it is a completely new thing to explore. It has a lot of features and it has been used for creating a based live objects or imaginative and etc. After my first lecture, I decided to look at the recording and then a begginer tutorial for using ZBrush. The tutorial can be found bellow.

It is difficult for me to easy memorise all the key shortcuts, so I researched about it and found the full PDF document of the shortcuts. This software is very easy to be used because it has everything stored simply and can be easly found. Pixologic provides very clear information about their product.

The Document: http://docs.pixologic.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/ZBrush4R7-Shortcuts.pdf

When I first opened the Software I learned how to create and safe a project. It is from File -> Safe As ; When I tried to safe through Document -> Safe As it saved itself as a pure image, not the whole project, so it is useful only for creating images of your sculpture.

There are a lot of brushes, it is very easy to choose and use a brush only with several key shortcuts. The changing of brushsize is possible, the texture of the 3D object too.

It has a history reverse, when you can see from the beginning to the end of your sculpture, every new thing has been autimatically safed.

The software can run on a computers with medium capasity, it is not a problem. Also, when an object has been sculpted, you can cut the part of it that you do not want to see and see what is inside the object, how it looks and etc.

This is the main interface of ZBrush and my first try sculpting.

- WEEK 2 -

Features: Nose

Our second week was about the anatomy of the nose, every part of it and how to sculpt it in ZBrush.

Here is Exersice 1, where all the elementas needed are described. Here you can see where are the Nasal Bone, Alar Cartliage, Lateral Cartliage, Septum Cartliage, Alar fat, Septum, Philtrum, Columellar - Labial Angle.

The Person's nose is telling that it is a young person because of it's almosdt 90 degree Columellar-labial angle. If it was a child it could be above 9- degree. If it is older it will be lower than 90 degree because the Cartilage does not stops growing with the edge of the human.

Exercise 2 - Sculpting three different noses

First Nose

It took me 30 min to sculpt it, I used three different brushes - Build Up Clay, Standard and Move brush.

Reference images:

https://www.pinterest.ie/pin/422705115005480585/?nic_v2=1a7t3KL7o

https://www.infovisual.info/index.php/en/human-body/nasal-fossa

This is my first ever sculpted nose, I need to prove a lot. You can see how the septum needs to be improved with the help of the Move brush and etc. My opinion is to sculpt the other two nese and to see my development and improvement with ZBrush because creating real-life based objects is great.

Second Nose:

Third Nose:

- WEEK 3 -

Features: Mouth

Our third week was about the anatomy of the mouth and how to sculpt it in ZBrush.

Here is Exersice 1, where all the elementas needed are described. Through the picture of this old man it is possible bto see all the parts of the mouth.