Chapter 7

Advanced Brush Techniques

The secret to creating fantastic models in ZBrush lies in the power to customize the sculpting brushes. Up to this point, the exercises in this book have primarily focused on different ways to generate general forms, and the sculpting techniques have been fairly basic. In this chapter, you’ll switch into high gear as you learn how to detail your models using the sculpting brushes.

Once you understand how the various controls can be used to customize the brush presets, you’ll see that you can design a brush that can do just about anything you want. In this chapter, you’ll learn how to design your own brushes to achieve specific results. Each section shows an example of how to use the custom brushes on one of ...

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