Old Witch - ZBrush Sculpture Series — VOL 01

The ZBrush Sculpture Series opens on a witch: seventy-five minutes from an empty scene to a finished character, with the face and the clothing both taken to a level worth putting in a portfolio. It is the shortest volume in the series, which makes it the one to begin with if ZBrush is open in front of you and the question is what order to do things in.

An aged face is a good first sculpt because it is forgiving in the places beginners struggle and demanding in the places they should be. The underlying structure has to be right, but the surface wants character rather than perfection, and the costume gives an early lesson in how cloth sits over a form instead of being wrapped around it.

What you get

• ✓75 minutes of ZBrush sculpting, empty scene to finished witch
• ✓Facial work on an aged character, and the clothing that goes over it
• ✓A beginner-to-intermediate pace, with tips shared as the sculpt goes on
• ✓ZBrush and nothing else — no second package to install
• ✓Unnarrated video, with no voice-over and no subtitles

Because the sculpt runs to just over an hour it works as a single sitting, which is unusual and useful: a whole character can be watched into existence in one evening and repeated from memory the next, which is where the learning actually happens. The tutorial is worked against a reference rather than invented at the screen, so the sensible way to follow it is with your own reference image open beside the video.

What is not included

The final model and the project files are not part of this download. Prerequisite knowledge is basic ZBrush: navigating the viewport and using its primary functions. Everything specific to sculpting the character is shown from the first mass onwards.