Wethand's character illustration sketchbook

[wethand]

Hello there people,

 i thought it would be time to begin a new sketchbook.
 
 The first two pieces and the vid are my windows7 tests.
 No problems or errors at all! i love the new OS!
 so i will stay inside win7. 
 
 the last one i just a repost. to have it in here. ;)
 
 hope, you enjoy.
 
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[skullbeast]

I dig the squid nosed butcher!

[Moni-Poroni]

Hab Dein neues Sketchbook grade entdeckt.
Na endlich sieht man mal wieder neue Zbrush Werke von Dir!
Ich finde ja, dass Du an dem zweiten Character weiterarbeiten solltest… es wäre cool ihn mit anderen Klamotten zu sehen… paar Jan-typische seltsam suspekte Ideen. Und er bräuchte eine lustige und ausgefallene Pose.
Aber…ich weiss ja… der Herr hat keinen Bock.
Bin mal gespannt, was Du als nächstes machst.
Gruss aus der Heimat… (mein “sZ” geht immer noch nicht.)

[wethand]

Hey there.
just received my downloadlink and tested directly some of the new features. awesome new stuff. i never liked technical stuff too much, but i wanted to test the new hard surface brushes. and i didn’t have much time. have to go to work… -.-
but after work i will have a lot of fun with the new version.
greetz
wethand

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[wethand]

heya!

just another zketch-play.
i already love the new zspheres! awesome tool.
and the noise feature is awesome, too.
everything is awesome.

4hours playing

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[wethand]

hey there.
just another sketch. maybe i’ll work on it later.

[](javascript:zb_insimg(‘159360’,‘rosa3.jpg’,1,0))

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[talster]

nice sculpting! how many polygons did your horned character get up to? I’d love to see where you’re going with the cat character too ~

[SolidSnakexxx]

Hey there wethand seems you’ve got a good start on ZB3.5… Looking forward to see more stuff on this sketchbook thread, mate

[wethand]

Hey there,

some further work on the cat. not sure about his clothing.

[](javascript:zb_insimg(‘162120’,‘rosa_hand1.jpg’,1,0))

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[RawSunlight]

Great sketches, and some really interesting pieces!!!

[dhasian]

the squidbutcher looks great i like it !,
even though he’s skinny but he’s realy meanny.
:Dwhose hand are those ?
(;)i hope it not some artist hand,cause that will be just too bad;).)

keep posting !

[Captain_Sensible]

Good to see all your works together in a sketchbook. I agree very interesting ideas. Your latest is looking like a very cool cat!

[wethand]

hello there.
thanks for your comments.
@cpt: your nitro is developing very nicely.

i don’t have much time for fun, but i am still working on my cat named “rosa”
i will take a break on this one. i thought about rendering him in 3ds max because of hair. but i don’t have an idea for a scene. so i will get a little bit distance to it.
don’t know if the sakko is to much… i like his chemise…

[](javascript:zb_insimg('162766','rosaimwaschbecken.jpg',1,0))

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[wethand]

hey there.

i always used zack petroc’s (or how he is written) basemesh for sculpting.
now with zspheres 2 i made my own basemesh. i don’t like to use other peoples basemeshes… dunno why, but it gives me a bad feeling.

so my workflow on the basemesh was:
zspheres to make a rough proportions-maquette, zspheres 2 to give some volume to it and retopo to have a bit cleaner basemesh.
there is much space for improvement but i think it will work very well as a basemesh. so i gave it an UV-Layout.
after that i wanted to test it and heya, my new project was born: PROJECT X-MAS!
maybe i’ll finish this one.
my cat still waits on its illustration but it is so much work to get into Hair&fur in 3ds max, so i wait until i have holydays.

tell me, what you think. and if you want to use my basemesh you can download it here. :generic_uv.zip

=)

[](javascript:zb_insimg(‘167696’,‘project_xmas_1_2.jpg’,1,0))

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[Phil_Amelung]

cool start for a sketchbook
love the butcher alien dude

[wethand]

hey there,

i think its time to detail and texture him.
and work on the scene.

[](javascript:zb_insimg(‘167887’,‘x-mas_closeup_2.jpg’,1,0))

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[Moni-Poroni]

Ho ho ho long time no talk! Glad to see you didnt stop Zbrushing. Nice start on the X-Mas project! Maybe you should pay more attention to the beard since its one of the first things people see when they look at him. More details would be great.
You did a good job on the belly. Do you plan to model some clothes for him?

[wethand]

updating project X-MAS.

santa-model is finished and detailed. now i go over to texture him.

@moni: thanks for your reply. yeah, long time no talk
“stop zbrushing”? are you kidding? i will never stop zbrush. it is already a part of my life. dunno why you think i would ever stop…

i think you are a little bit to fast with your critiques sometimes. i plan to make the beard inside 3ds max with hair&fur (like the breast-hair xD). i think that would give the best results, i already made some testrenderings and i am very statisfied with it. so i will see.
yeah, i plan to give him a shorts… i have, like always, a finished piece in my mind. i hope to get close to it.

here are some updates.

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[wethand]

hey there.

started the texturing-process.
a looong way to go… but i’ll take it! HUA!

[](javascript:zb_insimg(‘168741’,‘texturing1.jpg’,1,0))

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[wethand]

further texturing work and gave him a first pose.

four weeks remain…

[](javascript:zb_insimg(‘168906’,‘x-mas_4_texture_pose.jpg’,1,0))

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