My first attempt at Zbrush (first model)

[houmanmvfs]

Hi guys this is my very first attempt at zbrush, i am using zbrush4 and i have just started learning it last weak.
i am also an old XSI user but after buying a tablet i started working on zbrush and i love it, please give me any pointers that you can, i know the model is not perfect lots of lots of problems and i just got a hang of texturing with spotlight , but any advice is welcome.
The way the design belongs to ( MICHAEL DASHOW ) i have found his model sheet online and i hope he dosnt mind that i used it, his design was more cartoony but i tried to make a little more realistic specialy with the octopus, thank you :D

[chalkman]

Amazing first post and first sculpt! Very nice work! I love the little details like the fish belt buckle. Was this all Zbrush or did you use XSI for the base mesh? Cheers, David

[houmanmvfs]

Hi david and tanx for your comment, as this was my first time i made some of the objects in xsi first then imported them to zbrush but just a base mesh nothing more than a couple of hundred polys, its easier for me to make a more acurate profile in xsi, and the model sheet was very detailed, im not really happy about the texures i really didnt have much choice and used what i had, working on a 6 year old sony vaio with a A6 bamboo tablet so its a little hard working but im gettin used to it.

[Nyx702]

This is an amazing first piece. I don't have many crits. I think an area you could improve upon is the lips. It doesn't look like you made a mouth bag? While this isn't necessary it does make it easier to make it look like two separate lips. A useful tip that I didn't learn for a long time is to make the lower lip/chin area a separate polygoup for easy masking. This makes tweaking a breeze.

[houmanmvfs]

thank you, ye i havent made a mouth cavity it was a little confusing so i just tried to mold the mouth but next model i will try to make a mouth cavity.