Learning Zbrush - Tree Day 4

Learning Zbrush - Tree Day 3

Learning Zbrush - Tree Day 2

Learning Zbrush - Tree Day 1

Started picking up zbrush again. Been getting some great tips and instruction from a friend. Here is day one progress.
Concept by Peet Cooper.

Oh crap. I fell into the rabbit hole of pintrest.

Well I fully intended to do some studies this morning but as I was looking for reference material I stumbled headlong into the rabbit hole that is pintrest. Super excited to start using it. Lots of really inspirational stuff and a great way to organize reference and tutorials. I didn't make anything this morning but I feel like I added a valuable tool to my toolbox.

Here are my boards on Pintrest.

http://www.pinterest.com/lowtechr/

5 Min. Stone Speed Drill

WIP of Wildstar Fan Art

Got a few more things to finish up with this prop but wanted to post a WIP anyways. Also posting the original concept from Carbine Studios for reference.

5 Min. Bronze Speed Drills

These didn't go as well as I would have liked... well that is why it is called practice.

5 Min. Bark Speed Drill

5 Min. Speed Rock Drills

Working on speed and not over-thinking. Throwing down color and pulling forms out of it as quickly as possible. Fun practice.

Quick Afternoon Rock Study

I think quickening my process can help me improve in a number of ways. I am going to begin doing studies that are focused around quick block outs follow by focused addition of details.

Color Exploration + Testing

Got some interesting trick and tips about color from a friend today so I wanted to begin playing around with some of the ideas he dropped on me. The primary thing I was trying to play with here is exploring the ability to make a material more "colorful" without dramatically increasing saturation. One big caveat is that I did increase the saturation in the super dark shadow areas. This was a tip shared with me that it was possible to "hide" saturation boots in shadows. By doing this, the overall saturation seems higher but in reality it is still clamped over the majority of the material. Gonna need some more tests and experimentation.