Week 01: Head Sculpt

    Before starting this project, I was already familiar with Zbrush since I was taught how to use it during my undergraduate but it had been a good while since then. So going into Zbrush once again after my undergraduate, was an actual struggle trying to remember all the notable hotkeys I use to use during my undergraduate. After a while I was able to get a hang of the controls but still ran into small problems that was fixed very easily.

    For this sculpt I just wanted to sculpt a human head and I decide to base it off a known figure from the Kpop group NewJeans. I decided to use Kim Minji as a reference for this model. At first I had a really rough time getting the face proportion correct and spent a good amount of revisions and had occasionally to restart because I felt like the model had gone beyond a human face. But I decide to take it simple and just molded a sphere into a head like shape and removing spaces to have it slowly resemble a face. I started by making eye holes and then using a sphere as a place holder for an eye and building around that. After multiple revision on the face I moved on to doing the neck and the clavicle of the bust. I had to go through a couple of revisions and I was able to sculpt it to where I felt it was enough. 

    I then started sculpting the ears of the bust and I felt that out of everything that was the easiest piece I had to work win. I had no trouble sculpting it and I had a pleasant time working on it. My final piece was the hair. I felt that this was really challenging since I did not know how to properly sculpt hair. In the end I felt like this was the best I could do at my current skill level. 

    Overall I am satisfied with how the sculpt came out. Despite the hardship I did enjoy this small project. Next time I would try something that is more stylized. 

    I personally enjoy using Zbrush despite not being very skillful at it. I would still be interested on practicing this skill and slowly improve. But this is not enough for me to consider changing to do 3D arts. I still believe that animation what I want to do and so I will stick with my original choice. 

Final Render

Third Pass