Very funny…Perhaps you should read the rules, or become a moderator, or better yet, stick to your own sketchbook and ideas about how to use it, instead of filling up mine with your ideas about what is right and what is wrong, or maybe you just don’t have anything better to do…like create something maybe…and maybe even post it when your done…
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oh my…
you too have a nice day 
SpiritDreamer, I hope you can forgive my brutally honest critique. At first, I wasn’t going to say anything. But, after looking at some of your other images, I can see you’ve actually put some work into them. However, this last one looks like you only spent about 5 minutes on it.
It looks so rushed. There is so much distortion and stretching going on in the face, and ears. I think you tried to add details before you actually had a good overall shape to start with. No real anatomy in the body at all. Honestly, It looks like you tried to make a bat out of melted ice cream. This is hands down your worst piece of work. I know you can do better than that. I would totally rework the whole thing. I hope that is more helpful than hurtful. Anyway, that’s my two cents.
Derek…No problem…I like honesty, and appreceate it.
I am using this little character just to experiment with, using those great skin textures that I never tried out before.It was unplanned to start with, but I liked the idea of trying to make a little disease ridden and carrier of disease type of symbolic character, so I just went with it…I looked at a bunch of bat references, and tried to combine their type of anatomy with a little human anatomy…A deformed by it’s own disease type of character…
In any case, it is deffinitly not rushed,…i’ve spent probably about 20 hours on it, and have learned alot of new things concerning Z Brush, those skin textures, lighting, ect., and am experimenting with combining materials in different ways than I have done before…It’s still wip and a fun experiment done for the pure pleasure of trying out new things for me, making mistakes so I can lean new things from them, and basically just capturing a thought and exploring it…If it comes out ok in the end, that’s ok, and if it doesn’t, well that’s ok too, because I have learned from it along the way, and that is what sketchbooks are for after all, and like i’ve been saying all along, this is a sketchbook, to further develope my technique, experiment in, and explore Z Brush further…It’s deffenitly not a portfolio full of finished works, it’s just a work in progress.
I’m not here to score points with anyone, or to win a popularity contest…I’m just here to learn what I can about Z Brush along the way from studying some of the great works I see in here, and contributing what I can in the way of painting and anatomy knowlage, composition, and whatever other knowlage i’ve gained along the way with others that are light in those areas…
THANKS AGAIN Derek…Like I said, honesty is much appreceated and is always welcomed by me.
TAKE CARE
Glenn
You like honesty?
Uninstall Zbrush and buy yourself some crayons…
HEY CHEW…Welcome back…ALWAYS A PLEASURE hearing from you. …I see you still haven’t posted any examples of what must be spectacular works of yours yet, what are you waiting for…Don’t be scared, there are only a few people in this forum like you, and luckily they are just a small minority of an otherwise very talented,and mature, group of artist that enjoy what they do, and want to learn.
By the way, I love crayons, Conte Crayons in particular…I learned how to use them properly at the OTIS PARSONS ART INSTITUTE in L.A. from a great master of them …BURNE HOGARTH…
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Its nice knowing which schools and/or instructors to avoid at all costs, considering they turn out “artists” such as yourself.
Thanks for the tip!
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I envy you SpiritDreamer. Having the opportunity to learn from Burne hogarth, it must be once in a lifetime opportunity. I have almost all of his books and his talent is something out of this world.
Burne Hogarth was a pretty influential artist and teacher, and the art center college of design was one of the best art school in the world…
what Spiritdreamer wasn’t clear about was that he learned his 2d stuffs from that instructor and college, and fail to know that has almost nothing to do with his 3d skills.
Spiritdreamer is actually a pretty decent 2d artist… he just failed to translate those skills from 2d to 3d espeically when it comes to zbrush…but please don’t mix these with Burne Hogarth… He was pretty famous in the art world when he was still alive…
try to think of people such as Michael Bay or Ralph McQuarrie when you think of the Art center, instead of this guy
Mestav…THANK YOU for the respect in the midst of all of this ignorance, disrespect and rudeness that has unfortunitly entered my sketchbook…Yes Burne Hogarth was an AMAZING man, and a FANTASTIC teacher, and I will always consider myself lucky to have made his aquantance and to have been tought by him while he was in his prime.
The books that he left behind are his gifts to the present and the future.
Really glad to hear that you have them all, as do I also…
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Translating 3D into 2D
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Advancing from the blockin developement stage, to the actual anatomy and character developement stage.
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Having some fun with materials,and composition
Z Brush
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I like to see their concern with the colors, composition, and ideas, among many other things.
I also like the extensive use by you of the 2.5D
Continue with your work because you value the important things in art, something that few people do nowadays in the world of digital art.
It is no longer so nice to see models very well built but nothing else.
Bye
Like Poncell said, keep playing around
Poncell…THANK YOU SO VERY MUCH… Your words are very much welcomed and really appreceated:) Concerning the last part of your statement,… I couldn’t agree more, or have put it any better myself.
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Pulled her out from a 3D primitive sphere.
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That’s pretty, in fact the complete image (the one showing the Earth) may be your finest image posted here imo. Good job.
Eric…THANK YOU MAN… I thought it was a good one to post for EARTH DAY
She predates that old bearded man image and thought by many thousands of years, and is in fact the original thought of man and woman concerning LIFE, before she was so rudely replaced by that better in some other world old bearded man image and thought, …She is from a more truthful time before HERSTORY was perverted into HISTORY.
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Experiment in technique…WIP.
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Translating 3D into 2D…WIP.
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