Sculpting a Stylized Character for the very first time

My name is Roy Livne, I live in Tel-Aviv, Israel. Today I am a 3D generalist. Having been a programmer for many years and wanted to get into something more creative. I started getting into 3D in 2018.

I love characters and creatures, could be stylized or realistic, either for games, film or collectibles and concept art. I like the combination of cute and scary with a dark twist to them.

The name of my character is Ophelia, it's a concept by an artist named Qifeng Lin, which I found on ArtStation. I chose it for a few reasons: the style is great in my opinion, I like the complexity of it and I feel the story behind it. I wanted to challenge myself , since it's not an easy concept. It has everything from hard surface (armour and sword) to Organic (the tentacle creature) clothes and female anatomy and the fire effect.

The first milestone was the face and body anatomy. Getting that right was hard and took me a while. The second milestone was the hard surface - armour and sword which was challenging. The next was the tentacle creature on the armour and sword with the fire.

Anatomy was a struggle, especially the face since it's partially hidden and it's not facing forward or profile, so I had to do a lot of guessing. I also struggled with the armour , that was a big challenge since there is a lot of it and its complex. I wasn't used to modeling hard surface in Zbrush.

For the anatomy part the feedback was crucial for improving and making progress!

Learning basic anatomy on the program was vital, both from the videos and searching online for references. I realized how little I knew about anatomy before I started the course.

The live sessions were super helpful, and getting and giving feedback on the student forum was very important.

For the armour, I started by blocking out the major parts and went from there. I had knowledge of modelling before the course so I wasn't afraid to tackle it. But, doing it in Zbrush was a different story. The videos really helped, Marlon shows great techniques and I found extra references online.

I want to improve the render. And maybe fix a few things here and there. Six months ago I landed my first job in 3D so now I will continue to work on myself to do more and constantly improve my skills.