Blender Sculpting Tutorial for Absolute Beginners

This Blender sculpting tutorial is for absolute beginners. We will cover the basics of the Blender sculpting workspace, sculpting brushes and sculpting settings. We will also touch on sculpting with a drawing tablet, setting up a base mesh for sculpting and masking.
How to sculpt in Blender? We sculpt using the sculpting workspace which gives us all of the default sculpting tools we need in Blender. We have the sculpting brushes the left of the 3D viewport, the brush settings on the top of the screen and more brush settings in the tool properties panel on the right.
We can only sculpt with the geometry we have so we will look at using Dyntopo and then the remesh function. We will also cover using symmetry in our sculpting workflow and how to symmetrize a mesh after we've edited part of it. If you're new to sculpting in Blender, this tutorial should be a good place to start.
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Timestamps:
0:19 Tablets
0:57 Base Meshes
2:07 Sculpting Workspace
7:20 Symmetry
8:16 Dyntopo
9:05 Remesh
9:37 Brushes
11:54 Masking
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[@seagull2171]

Finally, I found someone who explained the sculpt tool by group color, many videos explain detail one by one, but blender not will group tools by color without the reason, Thank You, sir Brandon's

[@MRUStudios]

Thank you so much for covering this! Sculpting is one area I don't know a lot about, so I really appreciate you doing a basic tutorial on. Awesome video, Brandon! I hope you and your loved ones have a great week! 😃

[@Brandon-3D]

Thanks again man! Take care and Happy Monday!

[@aleksvitek798]

You deserve a medal, this video was super useful and concise.

[@andrewallan6802]

Thank you Brandon. I clicked through a few videos which were too shouty and annoying before finding yours. Perfect, just what I needed.

[@Yorkieborkie]

This is a phenomenal video. I've been trying to get back into sculpting for years but every video I found didn't cover exactly what I was looking for in a clear and concise manner like you have done. Thank you so much

[@peterdavies8807]

This was great to watch and re-watch!! You mention short-cuts and options not covered in other sculpting videos. Straight down to business!! Thanks!

[@barakamunene]

Just started my blender journey (just finishing up my donut haha) and this is the sculpting video I had no idea I needed but could not have been more timely! Earned a sub my guy!

[@Brandon-3D]

So glad you found it, happy to help. Here's one that should give you plenty more areas to explore: kzbin.info/www/bejne/aoqnl5KZqdqVmKs Take care!

[@RyanKingArt]

Great tutorial! 👍‍

[@Brandon-3D]

Thanks Ryan! You are getting close to 100k really fast! Well deserved! Thanks again!

[@RyanKingArt]

@@Brandon-3D Yes I'm hoping to reach 100K before the end of the year!

[@Brandon-3D]

I am pretty sure that’s in the bag!

[@Edilyon]

Wow great tuto man, thx

[@Brandon-3D]

Thank you!!

[@obscureeditz]

This is awesome! I’m trying to sculpt my own figures to 3D print so this is really useful!

[@ginho3848]

Thank you for explaining very clearly.

[@Brandon-3D]

You are very welcome!

[@emryspaperart]

i'm looking to learn how to use blender to create character meshes to use as references (i started with tinkercad cos honestly i just need to be able to paint my design on it and the mesh doesnt need to be super fancy, but transferrin it to procreate was a mess to say the least lmao) and honestly i've been pretty overwhlemed, but this video really made it feel like this is smth i can actually do. thank u so much!!

[@listenhere2006]

wowow sooo usefull you the most awesome💕💞💕💓💞

[@Brandon-3D]

Haha, thank you!

[@JonToons0208]

Cool I wish I can do it like that too.

[@SkateSafeNow]

Thank you again

[@orphydiancg7759]

keeping the subd modifier on and not applying it will work with the sculpting tools? Do brushes work on top of it?

[@orphydiancg7759]

box trim doesn't work with Dynotopo on and in general is very slow and almost crushes blender. Fill brush is also way slower than lots of other brushes that would normally do more complex jobs. Almost unusable. For beginners I think is worth pointing out some important limitations of the sculpting system in Blender.

[@RaadMambles]

you need to make your blender shortcuts into some kind of pdf or something so we can download it, thatd be nice. its some work copying it from your site to a doc

[@Brandon-3D]

Yeah…you’re right. It’s on my to do list. Lol. Sorry about that but thanks for watching!!

[@espacemaxim]

soooo subbd!!!

[@fairytale11620]

please make sculpting tutorial chibi character real time

[@elliejohnson2786]

I came here for a tutorial that would at least briefly go over texture brushes, and not only do you do the whole song and dance of "You must have a tablet!", but you also intentionally skipped textures. Probably a great tutorial for beginners, albeit the recommendation for tablets as a "must" for BEGINNER sculptors is tiring to hear, but not what I'm looking for sadly :(

[@Brandon-3D]

Appreciate the feedback, sorry I couldn’t be more helpful.

[@elliejohnson2786]

@@Brandon-3D That's okay, tons of other people are finding it super useful, so although it may not be for me, it's helping others

[@biocronic2986]

missing basics for beginners . ABSOLUTE :D so poor

[@lonesomealeks4206]

yet another tutorial for "Absolute beginners" for blender... It seems to me that every failed blender 3D artists starts making tutorials for beginners. does nobody see the irony..

[@listenhere2006]

if you could see the full irony of education, it would be obvious that bright stars of any skills dont do the teaching cause they either dont have time or did that unconsciously, so show me one teacher that actually did something incredible in their field, cause "making chair" and "sitting in the chair" or "looking at the chair" structure. of. the. prossesss. is. different. so you have what you can at the moment. if you qualified to be awesome and awesomely teach, then go on make your course on skillshare

[@lonesomealeks4206]

@@listenhere2006 I'm listening :) True, as an artist you are either too busy or you gave up on being an artist. There is Blender Bob here on YT who works in the field and he teaches some advanced stuff. I don't think that i need to be awesome and/or successful as a 3D artist to make tutorials about something either more specific or more challenging. I would make a course on skillshare, but even as a freelancer i don't have the time, so, you are right, i see your point.

[@Brandon-3D]

Hey, I really appreciate you chiming in with some support! I agree 100%. Thank you so much!!!

[@Brandon-3D]

Appreciate the input.

[@bleachedout805]

And you think pointing this opinion makes you special? Maybe he failed as an artist but he's trying to teach others how to improve upon his mistakes and perhaps gain income as an educator. But I agree lessons from people who've succeeded in their fields and who are retired are better but those cost a hell of a lot of money. I'll learn from the this failures attempts and we can win together.

[@purplecreeperyt24450]

I wanted to make a 20th Century fox animation with the "Your Fatherless" text, I watched a few tutorials but blender used too much of my pc, it used 100% of the CPU, 60% of the disk,98% Memory %10 of the disk So I Uninstalled the program