From the course: Sculpting a Creature with ZBrush and Photoshop

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How to use inspirational images and references

How to use inspirational images and references

From the course: Sculpting a Creature with ZBrush and Photoshop

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How to use inspirational images and references

- Reference: a necessary evil for creating believable monsters. Let's talk about the good and bad ways to utilize reference photos. How to Use Inspirational Images & References. To really get this message across let's jump right into Photoshop. Okay. Here we have a basic canvas and a basic brush setup in Photoshop and we have the reference photos off to the left side of the screen. The first thing I want you to do is just start roughly sketching out some of the shapes and some of the forms that you see on all of these creatures. It doesn't have to be perfect. Please stay loose during this stage otherwise, you can spend 30 or 40 minutes just drawing one of these creatures. But you want to just find the basic loose shapes. On the Jacob's sheep we really like these horns and the reality of it is, is a sheep and a goat awfully similar? So even though we're going to be focusing more on the horns from the Jacob's sheep, the face is so close to the goat the form languages are going to be…

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