Chapter 2: Overview of Blender's Sculpting Workflows

This book is about art, so we're going to try not to get too technical about how sculpting works. However, digital sculpting is performed on a computer, and we will have the best experience with the software if we gain a basic understanding of what's going on under the hood. In this chapter, we will identify and explain how Blender's sculpting features work and demystify how each of the sculpting workflows should be used at each stage of the sculpting process.

The sculpting process can be broken up into four separate workflows: Basic Sculpting, Dynamic Topology (Dyntopo for short), Voxel Remeshing, and Multiresolution. Each of these workflows has upsides and downsides. We will learn how to ...

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