some people simply enjoy the freedom of 3d space, and the journey of creating in 3d versus in 2d. its not always about the destination. 
i enjoy both worlds equally. usually the 2d work more so, but its always about the quality of work and ideas versus just the fact if something is 2d or 3d. it just doesnt matter much.
“its not always about the destination”
agreed ambient 
i was listening to NPR and they were interviewing a Korean artist and went into how in the west art is about the finished product but in the east it is more about the process, i’ve found that for myself that is where i am most happy, although it means i have little “finished” 
really nice lion renderdemon
last fall i gave away my beloved 73’ honda cb550 that i had for 10yrs, she was a few months older than me.
saw stencil usage in another thread and thought i’d give it a shot, there was a wood background but it seems to have gotten lost, i know the colors are kinda extreme but this is how i feel about her.
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Amazing work Renderdemon! Thanks all for the kind words about the piglet.
Cheers
Sav
Really, really great fun!
Dustbin_1 UK: happy Jack!
Saintasik: brilliantly bold smoking girl.
R
SAV, renderdemon, Spaceboy 412, roryL, magbhitu: great pics! Thanks for posting.
ps: I’m having serious difficulties accessing or posting on ZBC: forum page won’t load, thread pages hang, images won’t load so it is possible I am missing some of the great stuff that’s being posted. Apologies 
drew this in paintstop…
I will really love to see more layers in this app
All of the images here, are pieces of art!! all of them!, PaintStop is the best, i love it haha, and well this afternoon i make this portrait of Paul McCartney, pencil, a lots of color bend, blurr and so on, hope you like it! Yey!
Wonderful works posted by everyone. 
The styles are awesome and it explains so much about the approaches many take to their sculpting. A real treat!
For those of you thinking Zbrush is only 3D, I can tell you haven’t been around the application very long.
Many of you are missing the obvious capabilities these updated abilities provide. They are not new, but have been reworked in a major way. Marcus is a genius for even thinking this was possible way back when.
So some of you sculpt without any idea where you are going? You model without considering form, balance, or the desired result of the director/client/whatever? That explains quite a bit of the things we see across many forums.
Long ago a company called Alias had this wonderful tool to allow you to move back and forth from 2D to 3D, back and forth, resulting in some amazing works of design, art, vfx and things used in film and television. It has been missed by many of us who were around back then.
Thank you Pixologic. You have brought back a much needed tool that hopefully combined with other tools mentioned will allow so much more to be done quickly and with great creativity.
Very well said Jason! Bravo!
There’s some beautiful work going on with PaintStop. And seeing what other’s have done with it makes me want to take a closer look at it.
As far as using 3D to create 2D images is concerned… the way I figure it is, in art, the end justifies the means. I look at 3D art from an illustrator’s perspective. Oil, Pastel, Watercolor… they all have distinctive looks to them. I consider ZBrush just another medium - and it’s my medium of choice at the moment because I can get a distinctive look from it.
It’s also very cool that ZBrush can emulate natural media now like pencil, pastel and everything. What I find interesting is that some of the best digital paintings I have collected in my favs folder were created with nothing but the default flat brush in Photoshop. And yes, you can tell that they were done in Photoshop, just as you can tell that something was done in pencil or watercolor. Which I guess brings me back again to my point that in art, the end justifies the means. What does it really matter if you can tell what medium something was done in? What should really matter is that whatever the medium used (natural pencil, digital watercolor, Photoshop, 2D, 3D, etc…), is that it’s all done with good artistry and skill.
sketch
Saw all the great work and thought I would give it a try.
I couldn’t sleep this night so did a sketch (not the most original concept I know :P), really like the authentic mediums.
I’ll definitely be using PaintStop again very soon. Keep up the fantastic art making.
Hi all,
some great artwork in this thread,u all are doing great,i did some quick sculpt from zsphere in 1.30 hr.with paint stop speed painting i was getting some concepts of demons,and just ended with this.i hope you will like it.
Wow, I really like that demon concept.!
All this stuff is pretty coolness; keep em coming!
romilkchoprazb : pretty kickass stuff mate… you’ve got some serious skills … this reminds me of the cool concepts by aaron sims… great artwork man … would love to see more stuff like this from you… five stars from me .
My first PaintStop
[](http://javascript%3Cb%3E%3C/b%3E:zb_insimg%28%27155577%27,%27payasete2.jpg%27,1,0%29)[<!--[attach=155692]payasete2.jpg[/attach]-->](javascript:zb_insimg('155692','payasete2.jpg',1,0))New Paint Stop rough concept (to tidy up the composition on another -3D- doodle that didn’t go so well - see my gallery)
This kinda sorts out the tension a little. Will make the foreground tree a lot more prominent as soon as I get the feeling back in my legs
btw imo Paint Stop needs -NEEDS- more layers; tougher than things need to be without them!