nice work, man, so great!!!
Thanks guys! 
I did some sculpting over the weekend and created a new brush called Rasp.
You can download it here.
The goal was to be able to create surface planes very fast. The brush is best used at a larger brush size.
Here is a work in progress that I used the brush on. the hands are being worked on separately and will be added later. I find this helps me not worry about forearm topology and pronation too much.
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for some reason that reminds me of Angelina Jolie
Continued sculpting on the figure. I established the face some more and the expression. Very difficult expression. I was going for the ecstasy of St. Theresa here. Next I have to do the hands.
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update 6/24/06: edited pose slightly for more effect and resculpted arms.
great work Ryan , love the body moviment , it looks like real clay sculpture too
Alex Oliver
beautiful. im glad you are posting again! your work is a constant inspiration to me!
Thanks alexleia! Great work on your sketchbook thread too! The single biggest resource at zbrushcentral for fantastic sculpts! 
I’m glad you like the movement. i have several slightly compromising turntable videos of myself in this position. Hm, does it effect your perception of the work when you hear something like that? 
mdale13 - Thanks!
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Very expresive. I knew it was yours. Great.
oh and thanks for the new brush, though i am not sure quite how to use it yet. i guess thats what makes it fun!
Well, I will show you. Give me a few days to get things together on my end and I will upload a video to gnomonology and youtube.
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great rayan,realy great pose and sculpt.
A free, short video tutorial on how to use the Rasp or Sandpaper brush. Click the image or the link below.
hey ryan, thanks so much for the new brush and the video tut for it!
haha wow, that was a much better response to my ‘how do i use the rasp brush’ question than i imagined!
thanks again, ryan
Thanks again Ryan. As always you are ahead of the game.
One thing tho… doeas anyone else have a nightmare connecting to gnomonolgy.com? Drives me insane!! It loads up the background and then I get a message saying ‘cannot open internet site http://gnomonology.com - Operation aborted’ Becoming incredibly tedious! Just wondered if anyone else experiences this?? I get it at work and at home so its not just on one machine…
I’ve been looking at your work for a while and I just want to say that what you do is AWSOME, INCREDIBLE, FABULOUS…
you really have mastered Zbrush
and thanks for the brush an tut.
It’s not your computor I just had the same error.
how long is this gonna take
i’ve been experiencing it for weeks. If its happening to everyone they will lose a heap of potential customers…
Hi Ryan,
I saw in your Video it showed memory counter on the left top close to 6-8gb and you were using subdiv 9 , how do you get zb3.1 to use more than 4.5gb ?
Im on quadcore xeon XP64 bit 8gb ram running zb3.1
Thanks
Siju
rossco1111 and 3David - Hm, bad mojo. They’re looking into it now. Thanks for bringing it up.
thomasphoenix - I get about 12 to 16 million polys per subtool on this beast. Dell M90 laptop with 4 gigs. You should easily be able to get at least 8 million with your setup. Try deleting the UVs. That frees up alot of memory. To delete them press Tool: Texture: Disable UVs.
Please note that this DELETES your uvs. It does not just disable them.
mdale13 - I strive to please. I was just so happen to have figured out a workflow like this that I wanted to share right away. Now, i just have to avoid the dreaded “dead surface trap” that classicists can fall into.
mradamw - You’re welcome. Thanks for watching it.