Nick Carters Sketchbook

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Hey everyone!

My name is Nick, I live in Melbourne and have just completed my Advanced Diploma of Professional Games Development (Specialising in Art). Throughout the course of my Diploma I discovered my passion and what I would like to do as a career, and that is character concepting and creation. We did a lot of assignments in my course aimed at giving you a broad understanding of the game creation pipeline, but it is creating characters where my heart lies and so that is what I am going to do

So I am creating a Sketchbook and dedicating myself to it from this point on.

In this sketchbook will be a mixture of sculpting in zbrush and life drawing. Every sculpt I do in zbrush I will record as a means of documenting my progression

So to begin with I thought I might link to my current portfolio (which I hope to completely replace by the end of the year). Looking forward to the year ahead.

Portfolio: http://nickcarter92.weebly.com/

Happy Zbrushing

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So lately I have been doing more life drawing, waiting on a new computer build and zbrush just hates working on my laptop . Once the new computer is finished I am going to start a daily ritual of doing a life drawing study followed by a life sculpt study of the same subject, then post it here I am hoping this will improve my anatomy knowledge.

Here are some of my life drawings:

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Finally got around to doing some more stuff, feels good after a break. Started a head based on Scott Spencers sculpting method…

First pass of the skull

Second pass

first pass of the face, i realised that i didnt like this method. i get too distracted going from the skull to the face muscles. but it was a good excercise, i didnt take it further

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Did some quick 30min life sculpting based on pictures found on pixel lovely.

started with a zsphere base

then roughed out the shape and sculpted a bit

learnt a lot from this and took it forward to my next one

i learn a lot from these

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Just a quick bust i sculpted from a generic head. Need to learn how to do finer details better

was relatively happy with this so i decided to take my first foray into a portrait. this is of a famous person (i wont mention them). I will take this through to a final sculpt, looks okay so far but not really recognisable, hopefully hair and ears will help

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Taken this bust as far as i want to. will do another in the future… possibly of the same person to gauge my progress. had a lot of fun doing it

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Started another bust, calling it the viper…just started blocking out general anatomy at the moment. Gonna make it more interesting tomorrow.

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Finished sculpting the viper bust, ended up taking it in a different direction… relatively happy with the result. onto the next…ended up having a tech issue, too low res in the face… will try to avoid this on the next one

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Just a quick hard surface test and sculpt before bed