Gorgeous!
Gorgeous indeed.
French artists are always sketching this “upper belly area” better than any one else. Wondering why… LOL. Their great museums and their art probably. Rodin, Degas, Renoir, Matisse… before them Clodion.
Thank you soOOOOooo much guys!! you can’t believe how good it is to read so…
some softer designs i made for my children:
[](javascript:zb_insimg(‘263762’,‘pearl.kraken2.jpg’,1,0))[](javascript:zb_insimg(‘263762’,‘pearl.kraken2.jpg’,1,0))
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[](javascript:zb_insimg(‘263765’,‘graoullyz.jpg’,1,0))
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some Blender renders after polypainting and rigging.
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great dragon, i’d kill the depth of field cause it totaly cuts the details which you did in the sculpt. Work on adding more colors to create a more striking presence to the dragon, use lizard references to use and inspire your creation.
keep up the good work
were all inspired by nature why not nurture our imagination with what we have around us to manifest itself,
teddy007kong thread
http://www.zbrushcentral.com/showthread.php?t=88496&page=2&pp=15
hi! i justed changed the shadders and lighting. working on some poses. (also left the depht of field quiet)
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The dragon is superb !!!
Great work on blender too. (environment lighting needs more samples I guess)
But you may wish to try cycles.
Thank you so much Michalis, i really appreciate and need such words!! 
i’ve to say that such renders are a great victory for me, regarding the amount of creepy one i’ve done! though i have a little special taste for this lake of samples…it hides lot of things!!
Here is the animation as i choose to stop it. I was very sad being unable to restart a good job, as i was very happy, regardless to my previous animations, with the structure of key poses.
perhaps i’m always fearing the end of a project, as first energy is never there at the end. but it would have been stupid to let it in my garbage. 
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Love that animation video and the dragon…Great job…
Thank you so much to be there, spirit!
here are two characters i’m working on for a few animated scenes, and also printed models for my child, speaking of pirates every days…
For the big one, i worked the muscles by head, and was unable to make a good face. i’ve just seen our French big Judo star on web today…an so on!
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Here at Metz, we have each year a new queen. like in every country i suppose, the most beautiful girl of the place, “la reine de la mirabelle”. as i thought she was a good example of some beauty, i made a character, rigged and rendered in Blender. enjoy!
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[](javascript:zb_insimg(‘270089’,‘mirabelle3.jpg’,1,0)) [](javascript:zb_insimg(‘270089’,‘mirabelle3.jpg’,1,0))
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some “orc-rugbyman” and a very speeed bust of Twain.
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some games with the new freedom of dynamesh, curves, etc… (really enjoying cylinder curve for fingers!!)
for the dragon, i tried to make a low poly with a copy dynameshed, then projected…might work!
and also, a bust of Gandalf. hope you’ll like those!
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I just went through your sketchbook one more time…Great journy…really enjoyed it…small_orange_diamond:)
Nice job on those hands posted above…and the other sculpts also of course…Thanks for the tip on using the cylinder curve brush for the fingers,…I have yet to try it out, but will now that I have seen how well it worked for those hands posted above.
Drawing Dynamic Hands by Burne Hogarth…not to expensive,can be bought on the internet… an invaluble resorce, and a wealth of vital information and demontrations within it’s covers…Just thought I would mention it, just in case you weren’t aware of it…One of my favorite and most valued books left behind by him…A Real Treasure…
Keep Inspired and Inspiring…
Sweet sculpts, I love the pirate sculpt and the Gandalf sculpt, which look like a fun sculpt.
oh many thanks Spirit and Fenrir!!! :o
Spirit, thank you for this book’s name, i might be very intersted.
I follow my ZB4R2 discovering. an other tip if you mind: i really enjoy the cylinder curve brush, as we can create and modify a big cylinder, and at every moment still we are in curve mode, create by clicking with a thinner cursor, create very thin cylinders. i tested on this Gandalf hair, and as it is 5mn test, i’m like impressed!!
i also post it’s stupid, i know!!) one of my last version of my Mirabelle’s queen, just to test the new button MA!!
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Xada :D…Nice technique for the hair using that cylinder curve brush…Makes a nice contrast and compliment to the beard hair…variety in the hair texture and flow is working Great for him…
Thanks for sharing that also.:)…Another trick in the old bag of tools…
Like that soft atmoshereic look in the butterfly winged woman also…enhances the sense of motion…
Hey, thanks Spirit, as usual!
here a Dynamesh test, following the lines created to find a model.
He makes me think to our french Senators! 
rarely young, somehow following themeselves, and not known for thier happyness!
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haha, the sheep is truly awesome! love it
I everyone! Zbrush has so much changed since my last post here…and i had so few time to practice.