Monster Head - ZBrush Sculpture Series — VOL 06

Volume six closes the ZBrush Sculpture Series with a monster head: 140 minutes from scratch, covering the head itself, the horns growing out of it, the beard beneath and the detail work over all three.

The interest here is the mix. Horns are hard forms with a clean sweep and a defined tip, and they sit on an organic skull covered by a beard that has none of those qualities — so a single sculpt asks for hard-surface discipline and soft-form sculpting within a few centimetres of each other. Getting the junction between them to look grown rather than glued is the skill this volume teaches, and it is the one that separates a convincing fantasy creature from a kitbash.

What you get

• ✓140 minutes of ZBrush, an empty scene through to a finished monster head
• ✓Head, horns and beard sculpted as parts of one form
• ✓Detail passes over the whole sculpt once the large shapes are settled
• ✓Beginner to intermediate, with the emphasis on how each shape is modelled
• ✓Wordless capture: nothing narrated, nothing subtitled

Two hours and twenty minutes makes this a single-session sculpt for anyone who has done one before, and a two-evening one otherwise. It sits naturally after the beast in volume two — the same creature territory, a harder set of forms — and it is the volume to take if creature work keeps coming out soft everywhere. Follow along in your own scene rather than watching it through; with no narration, the brushes and the strokes on screen are the whole explanation.

Level and contents

Beginner to intermediate, assuming you can already navigate ZBrush and use its primary functions. The monster head itself is not delivered, and neither are the project files — what you get is the process that makes one.