ZBrush® Character Creation: Advanced Digital Sculpting, Second Edition

Gesture, Form, and Proportion

When learning to become a better digital sculptor, you will benefit from the same traditions and tenets that guided traditional sculptors for centuries. Just as in drawing and painting, all the fundamental artistic lessons applicable to sculpting are true on the computer as well. Whether we are sculpting an alien, a princess, a warrior, a horse, or an abstract form exploration, our primary concerns will always be the same (Figure 1-1).

Figure 1-1 Examples of traditional clay sculpture

Gesture

Gesture represents the dynamic curve of the figure. In life drawing, these lines are quickly laid down on paper and do not ...