Here is a Happy Christmas to you all! My wife is Japanese, so every year I have to try to blend Western and Eastern traditions, not always with the best success This time I think most people will get it. Famous last words!
Happy Christmas everyone! Thanks to everyone who viewed my threads and thanks to the staff at Pixologic for all the patient support they've given through the year.
This is an illustration I did recently. It was entirely drawn in ZBrush 3.1, painting black and white images to represent each colour shade. I constructed the RGB composite in Photoshop, translating the B&W masks into colour fill layers, defined by spline shapes, generated from the ZBrush images.
Thank you. Yes it is a personal project. I wanted to create an iconic, emblematic design, harking back to four colour process comic art of previous decades, when modern airbrushed gradients couldn't be printed. Glad you like it!
The 2011 Halloween Competition inspired me to experiment with creating smoke in ZBrush. I think I got quite a nice result and have posted the tutorial in this thread here:-