'Z' SKETCHBOOK-----Let's draw.

[50'sKID]

Hello everyone. I have finalized my material and light settings in a document called 'Sketchbook'. You just draw your tools onto the sreen and pull them away from the clipping plane so the edges render properly. You can add fog and draw at different depths to create lighter pencil effects. Can we have a drum roll? 50.

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SKETCHBOOK.zip (http://www2.zbrushcentral.com/uploaded_from_zbc/200308/user_file-1057495708dnb.zip)

[Reactor]

Now I'm excited about getting a tablet =)

[rhom]

Cool.Thnx.

[Nemo]

Thank you very much - this is really nice :)

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[50'sKID]

Hi Reactor, Rhom, and Nemo! I am so thrilled this worked! I hope you can find it usefull. 50.

[Paul from Australia]

Thank you very much for the great script.

Paul.

[Frenchy Pilou]

Hi kid of 50
Number 3 Now :)
Pilou

[nAÄAx]

Im gonna try it inmediatly!!!!!!!!!!!

Really thank you :cool: (applauses!)(applauses!!) :eek: :tu:

[50'sKID]

Your welcome Paul and nAÄAx. Hope you find
it usefull. Hi Frenchy, 3?-----We'll see.
:) 50.

[Gary Komar]

thanks 50 from (60,s victim)off to give it a try :tu: ;)edit, and on some of my models again thanks :tu: :tu:

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[Frenchy Pilou]

That's seem cool penciling :cool:
Pilou

[Svengali]

Hi Five-Oh,

This is a very interesting material. Over the weekend I tried some variations (sepia-tone, conte-crayon, and other "impossible materials"), and had a load of fun "sketching!"

One thing I thought you might try is creating a small ZScript that lets you toggle between variations of the drawing materials and some standard material for building and assembling the objects to be "drawn".

It brought me back to my art school days and an instructor who always talked about contours and edges making the drawing. Guess he was right!

A great post, thanks!

Sven

[50'sKID]

Hi Gary! I love that cabin. Hi Sven, the material adjustments seem endless. See what you can come up with. See ya. 50.

[PusGhetty]

Excellent technique and script 50'skid! Great contribution!
Thanks!
Michael

[TVeyes]

Thanks for this :tu: I'm not sure which of your material settings did the trick for me but now I can use the Best Render without losing the black contours. I thought I had played with all the settings, so this is very much appreciated. Thanks :tu:

[Frenchy Pilou]

http://www2.zbrushcentral.com/uploaded_from_zbc/200307/user_image-1057803455sur.jpg
From Sarabel Model (http://www.pixolator.com/zbc-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic&f=1&t=011629)
Pilou

[50'sKID]

Hi Michael, Tveyes, and Frechy, you're all very welcome. I'm glad you got it working Tveyes, and nice 'drawing', Frency! :) 50.

[Frenchy Pilou]

Hi Kid Of 50
Precision
I can't name this a drawing, a collage yes :)
I have nothing draw, it's the Sarabel creation that I have past with your crazzy sketch :)
Pilou

[Dickie]

Rich, thanks for this amazing shader. I tweaked with the diffuse in channel 4 and this is what I came up with. Very Burne Hogarth looking pencil. It's incredible. This has been buried long enough in the back threads. It's time to see the light again.

I think it's a fantastic tool for doing character sheets in an animation studio. You rock, My Brother...:D

Oh yeah, and NO render time...BONUS!

Dickie

Finster_Sketch_02.jpg (http://javascript%3Cb%3E%3C/b%3E:zb_insimg%28%2711072%27,%27Finster_Sketch_02. jpg%27,1,0%29)

[brice de nice]

sooooo nice i really love it !!i ove the look of you caracter

[Dickie]

Hot Damn! Vargas airbrush illustration setting...Z-Brush is SOOO freakin' amazing...

Still tweaking this one, but it's a damn fine start...


Dickie

MarineColoredPencil_02.jpg (http://javascript%3Cb%3E%3C/b%3E:zb_insimg%28%2711073%27,%27MarineColoredPenci l_02.jpg%27,1,0%29)

[aminuts]

Hey Dickie and 50's kid


Thanks for bringing this back up...I seem to have lost it when I moved stuff over to the new computer awhile ago and found myself trying to remember the name of it so I could do a search!!

Cool!!

[Dickie]

Thank you, Brice. Now you should try this shader on your character...:D

Dickie

[50'sKID]

Hi there, Dickie! This was a surprise. Your model looks great in 'Pencil' :) , and nice tweeking. 50.

[Tartan]

Wow, These are really great and beat the old sketch pad in poser pro any day! Thanks 50 :)
Tartan

[50'sKID]

You're welcome, Tartan. Have fun with it and post your results. 50.

[Dickie]

Here's 2 colored pencil sketchs and I've attached a tiny Z-Brush doc file that you can use to get the material and lights from. Not that the lights really do anything, but it's a good platform to start from. All images are straight from Z-Brush, no Photoshop except to crop.

Just load my doc, resize it to whatever size you normally work in, select and clear the first layer and load in one of your painted models. It should come out looking like colored pencils. Then post your images to this thread. I want to see what you all can come up with...:D

P.S. I'm sorry to hog the boards tonight, I'm just all excited about this technique...:o

Dickie

FinsterColoredPencil_01.jpg (http://javascript%3Cb%3E%3C/b%3E:zb_insimg%28%2711092%27,%27FinsterColoredPenc il_01.jpg%27,1,0%29)

SKETCHBOOK_Pinhead_01.jpg (http://javascript%3Cb%3E%3C/b%3E:zb_insimg%28%2711089%27,%27SKETCHBOOK_Pinhead _01.jpg%27,1,0%29)


(http://www.zbrushcentral.com/zbc/attachment.php?attachmentid=11090&stc=1)

[Tartan]

Obviously i am not getting the results as other people. I attribute that to not knowing much about rendering in z brush. I played around a bit and imported an old collage for a background. One using using a variation of 50s shader and the other Dickies. Thanks you two I learned a lot. i did take dickies variation into Photoshop for a tweaking and ran into a large file lol.

Tartan
SKETCHBOOK.jpg

[Tartan]

oops and 50s
hmmmm cant seem to post it? Its not taking :(

[Moochie]

Wayhay! This is fun .. thanks 50's and Dickie. Your pics look amazing, Dickie. I did a similar pic to your smoking alien a few months ago (similar in terms of theme, not quality .. obviously:D ), so I tried him out using your settings. The rest are just tools I had lying around and loaded using 50's set-up. Yay!

Tartan .. you got really strong colours coming through there. You don't render the pic .. the preview (default) render should be the final result. Try a basic tool to start with. Still, it looks cool all the same.

For other newbies, if you download the two zip files from 50's and Dickie, you'll see the files inside have the suffix .ZBR. The place to put them is in your ZDocuments folder and load them via Documents > Open. :cool:
sketchbook.jpg

[abcd1234]

bis.gif

[jotajota]

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[Dickie]

Tartan: The cool thing about this shader is you don't need to render. Just load you model into the doc I provided and it will work.

Moochie: For your black and white pencil, go to the materials editor, go to the S4 channel, and play with the diffuse setting. Somewhere around 35-40 will give you more grey in the center areas making it look more dimensional.
Lower values = more grey. This works best with "Smoother" characters I've found. Your Donkey will look more like my Finster sketches. Also, for the eyes using Rich's B/W pencil settings, I had to sculpt the eyeball so that the iris and pupil would show up. Your Scowling elf is hysterical and looks very cool with the colored pencil look...:D

JotaJota: The toucan looks cool. Are you actually rendering him though? With this shader you don't need to render. the colors will automatically look muted. Though I like the look you have because it looks like colored inks or watercolor, yet another cool effect!


Dickie

[Frenchy Pilou]

...old time of Zbrush there were 2 terrific shaders for toons or other etching ;)
This above by Kid of 50 and this one by Fouad and Aurick (http://www.zbrushcentral.com/zbc/showthread.php?t=009417) :cool: (see the entiere thead)
The incredible thing is that you can create and move your object3d directly with these shaders!
Zbrush is some awesome :eek:
Have happy Zbrushing:
Pilou

[Moochie]

Thanks Frenchy!

[Dickie]

Here are 2 more images. The hands are Lightwave models I made in metanurbs and imported into lightwave. The dinosaur is a Lightwave model I made in metanurbs based on a sketch by "Crash" McCreary. it's planar mapped and 85% painted but it's a start. The beauty of this technique is that it's clean but doesn't look computer generated.

Thanks for the Ink link Frenchie...gotta play with that one now...:D

Dickie

Hands_Sketch_01.jpg (http://javascript%3Cb%3E%3C/b%3E:zb_insimg%28%2711133%27,%27Hands_Sketch_01.jp g%27,1,0%29)


CompyColoredPencil_01.jpg (http://javascript%3Cb%3E%3C/b%3E:zb_insimg%28%2711132%27,%27CompyColoredPencil _01.jpg%27,1,0%29)

[Dickie]

I really like the toucan, Jotajota. Evertime I see him, I want to feed him a grape...LOL...toucans LOVE grapes. The latter toucans are starting to look like illustrations. The first one is cool because it looks like watercolor. The human head looks like scratchboard illustration...:tu:


Dickie

[Tartan]

I liked your last 2 Dickie. I also liked Jos and Moochies variations but i am still not having much luck getting the look i want so far. I think that the cause is the texture i made. Its just coming in too rough. I am going to make a quickie model and try it later on with a less realistic texture. On the other hand i didnt have any problems with 50s, I am enjoying this. Its letting me recharge my batteries on my ongoing project and making me learn a little bit :) hmmm this is very frustrating.. I Still cant upload the image.

Tartan

[Moochie]

Tartan .. are you getting an error message? Is it def less than 200k? What format? If .psd, does it have layers or an alpha component? Made any changes to your firewall since you last uploaded? Cleared your temp cache? Tried deactivating any d/l manager?

[Dickie]

Tartan: I found that the pecil shaders, both No.2 Pencil and colorpencil work better on "Smoother" models. I tried it on my lizardman who has a lot of details in him and he doesn't come out as good as my other "Smoother" models...:confused: I don't add a lot of wrinkle detail in most of my models because I
don't quite have the skill yet to do it well yet and I tend to like a toonier look.

Dickie

[50'sKID]

Well, you guys have several nice looks going here. Material tweeking provides many effects. Very nice Compy and hands, there, Dickie. 50.

[Moochie]

Tried playing with some of the settings in the other material channels on some of these. More hit'n'hope, than anything else. But a good way to learn.

sketch_next.jpg

[Dickie]

Moochie: Some damn fine stuff there. The hand is awsome and I really like the
saggy faced ruffles guy. The orc mug has some cool pencil lines too...


Dickie

[Buckie]

This is cool might give it a whirl...:D

[gendragon]

This very nice! :tu: :tu: :tu: :tu: :tu:

[piz]

Tnx a lot 50'sKID for yor work! Your ToonMat it's so useful!!!

I tried it... hope you enjoy :D

piz.jpg

[willbrown1]

Sweet renders!

[The Cheshire Cat]

THANK YOU.

I've been looking for just this thing - I'm trying to start a web comic with cell shaded characters and this seems perfect. Thank you!

[threetails]

ok, ive gone nuts. how do i use your ZBR file again, :lol: i have had along night and the brain cell that contained that info has been consumed as food.

[RawSunlight]

This is fab.

You Pixologians are great! Off to try it........