Paint Your Sculpts Like a Pro in Blender

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If you are new to sculpting or Blender, this video is a great place to start. It will teach you everything you need to know to get started with painting your sculpts using Blenders vector painting tools.
This video is a comprehensive introduction to painting your sculpts in Blender. Follow along with me painting this fun caricature head whilst learning how to setup for painting, how it works, and the different tools available in Blender. It also provides some tips and tricks for beginners.
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[@Gems69pl]

If you're now using blender 4.0 -> Shift+K is now ctrl+x

[@sinisterroger1249]

thank you

[@ioshinigami2165]

thanks!

[@oxfletch]

Thank you! I was stuck on that

[@rayb.5609]

you are a saint. I went to the comments hoping someone had the fix

[@jimikalliopuska9421]

Thank you

[@mwanangusylvain8266]

this is my first comment on youtube, can't believe you took my resistance. good job fella, you brought me into the world I've dreamed of.

[@marcapouli7805]

I admire people that can use these brush and manage to make a finished object.

[@Flavio_Mark]

These sculpting tuts came at the perfect time, I need to sculpt a character for a client and it has been a while since last time I have sculpted anything in Blender. They are a great reminder! Life saver! Thanks Grant!!!

[@jasperzatch610]

Speaking of your gamedev courses, i just bought the one where you sculpt something very similar to this character, it's awesome to have more resources from you here that's so recent too. Thanks for all you do! Cant wait to finish this third course from you.

[@grabbitt]

Glad you like them!

[@austinhawk7026]

Love the tutorial has to be the most comprehensive one I've seen yet, just too bad you're British. thank you so much for making this free

[@grabbitt]

I can't help where I was born. Strange to dislike everyone from a particular nation. What's the reason?

[@hasnainrana6416]

@@grabbitt You are an awesome guy, ignore him he is a hater

[@PLAY4FUN-dh5rt]

first time using Blender if only i could show you my work, thank you so much, i will not stop here , you doing a good Job

[@grabbitt]

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[@KentStandit]

To the American English speakers out there, if you end up with an all black model in cycles render view, try using another attribute name than "color". Apperantly that attribute name is already used for something else and can cause problems

[@eweeeer]

thankyou

[@michaeltonn8028]

Great tutorials! Really well paced. I appreciate how you take your time explaining things without rushing through important steps. Your patience shows that you are truly interested in teaching and not just showing off.

[@SilverKlapwijk]

sculpted and painted my first face!! i had lots of fun, i was intimidated to try it, but i definitely want to sculpt more now

[@QasimKhan-vh5mu]

Hi, sir. I'm your new subscriber and love the way you teach. I would request you please kindly make a tutorial on how to split or separate lips in sculpture mode for animation purpose. Thank you so much

[@daleanderson1727]

Simple, straight forward, easy to follow ad stayed on point. Thank you. You have earned a new follower.

[@EIendir]

Great Job ! We're waiting for any other magnificent sculpt work of yours

[@BoxPossum96]

Awesome stuff. You're the goat Grant

[@todd4274]

For blender 4.0 it seems the fill vertex color is now ctrl+x instead of shift+k @ about the 3:21 time in the video.

[@maryemharrabi677]

thank you so freaking much

[@thongnieducationalinstitut8646]

You have gained one new subscriber

[@samdavepollard]

an artist who knows how to teach ❤

[@ekpagalinsan]

Wow.. thank you so much 🙏☺️ you have been a huge help for me sir.❤

[@sebius123]

Thanks for this video, it was exactly what I'm looking for.

[@Eren_Yeager_is_the_GOAT]

It’s so colorfull :0

[@ani8580]

is this the bob ross of the 3d world or what

[@maltepedersen2558]

I can't paint over the set base color of the face, or change all of it with ctrl+x. But when I do the exact same thing with another object like the hair It works perfectly. Please help, what am I doing wrong???

[@Rictue]

you are a god grant thats what i needed to

[@claudiosettiart]

Great video Grant! I have been wondering how to this. Thank you so much!

[@boristires]

Very great lesson! Thank you!

[@luizcassioalves1013]

Hi, Sir, how are you? Your training is very good. Congrats!! In this video you had mentioned: "...you can download it from the link in the description if you want to follow along precisely with me..." Therefore, I could not find this related link for its download. Would you provide me this link so I can download your model, please? I really appreciate your help. Thanks and Regards. Luiz Cássio-Brazil

[@fedymelliti6550]

Same here!

[@Wyntrfang]

Learned from a few places that slightly turning out the eyes at about 5-10 degrees helps them not look as crosseyed, apparently we're a bit wall-eyed lol Also, really love that you used Sonic as a reference, he does solid work and it's a blast every time worlds collide like that! Really awesome tutorials dude; appreciate these, sculpting is so daunting, and you've been a miracle maker!

[@samuelandrade9340]

very very thx brother!!

[@swaymolina-art]

On mac, set the vertex color with command + x

[@OrlandoG.Sanchez]

I love u, thanks for this class

[@Gametime05577]

Thanks

[@MehmetSarkd]

Quick note: it's ctrl-x instead of shift-k in blender 4.0

[@dodotaku]

Thank you so much for making these tutorials. I think I accidentally sculpted Jeff Bezos, but it was a great experience.

[@chuctanundaspiderbone5407]

This is excellent, thanks. You always make painting in Blender look so easy. I didn't know you could do this with vertex colors. Question: What if you have re-topologized this model and you want to bake these vertex colors into a texture for the re-topologized version? What does that workflow look like? Is it similar to the process of baking a normal map? Thanks.

[@grabbitt]

Yes same

[@Tystev]

The texture painting works in my view port but goes black when I enter render. My material preview is also black, I'm so lost.

[@grabbitt]

Have you saved the texture and is it hooked up

[@gamoe]

thanks you

[@cleberlimacls]

Using the vertex paint is the same then using the paint tool in sculp mode? Great video btw

[@grabbitt]

Yes, it is

[@MultiCasse]

nice video, just a tip: make your cursor bigger, sometimes i completely lost it. have a nice day. 🙂

[@grabbitt]

Thanks

[@Acacialabs]

merci

[@DaveThompsonfairlife4all]

Do you have any tutorials or recommendations for learning about the video/image masking feature and other video editing tools? I don't know why I am struggling with it so much. I would like to rely on Blender for its video editing tools, if only I could get to grips with it. Thank you

[@grabbitt]

It's not something I use blender for

[@kaliquis01010]

I must say that I really love the first part because it really helped me with starting sculpting but when I start Vertex Paint it becomes for some reason really slow, like one tap with my brush and I'll wait about 2 seconds before I'll see any color. It makes my brush strokes very blocky and unatural and I don't know what to do with it, and my vertices number is lower then 500.000

[@grabbitt]

Are you using the latest version of blender

[@xmonstar420x]

Hey grant, im actually in several game dev courses. Im using 3.6 and no color attribute node. Is there a workaround besides using your version? Sorry if its repeat wuestion, looked for the answer.. thanks!

[@nicolec4480]

Question - when texture painting how should the lighting be set up during the painting process? What should the world be set at and then should you have other lights in there and if so how? Or does it matter

[@grabbitt]

Keep in material preview mode and it doesn't matter too much

[@nicolec4480]

@@grabbitt why do you use vertex settings for painting not texture from the drop down menu

[@grabbitt]

@@nicolec4480 you need low poly meshes for texture painting

[@WaterShowsProd]

If you were to do a retopology of this sculpt, is there a way to bake the vertex painting onto the UV map of the lower poly mesh? I know you can bake normal maps, would it be a similar procedure?

[@grabbitt]

Yes same kind of thing

[@dhoff9]

I have been following your tutorial. It has been great - thank you! I am stuck. I can't paint while in the sculpting workspace in vertex-paint mode in Materials preview Display mode. I can easily paint in solid display mode. I attached a color attribute to the base color in the materials pane. At 3.07 of your video, you are in the sculpting workspace, Vertex paint mode and Materials preview Display. Any help guiding me through this is GREATLY appreciated. I am a new technology teacher at a high school and I would love to have my students use this tutorial. Thanks, Dave

[@dhoff9]

update: I think I had too many vertices (over 1,000,000). I am using a surface studio gen1. It is an i7, but only 6th generation... I redid everything and I was able to follow the entire tutorial. Thanks again!

[@Drakmour666]

An are those blue ed\yellow areas of the face is a overall rule for every type of skin? So if I need my character to be with more tanned skin or more pale, should I just switch the base color to which I need and it will do? Or it changes the rule of color areas?

[@grabbitt]

I believe so

[@SavoirPourTous]

Thanks for this video, Question : I don’t understand to paint the object with one time, the shortcut is shift K, but does not run on blender 4 Thanks for your answer,

[@grabbitt]

Haven't checked. I'll look into it

[@SavoirPourTous]

@@grabbittIt's good, I found, type on CTRL X (Paint -> Set Vertex Colors) Thanks,

[@brundoob]

They changed it, its now CTRL X

[@FetaDeQueso]

Why my vertex paint only paints b&w? Is it a bug? :(

[@grabbitt]

Sounds like it

[@SeonVespera]

i'm using the 4.0.2 version and seems like Shift + k isn't working, maybe they moved it to another shortcut i dunno but i had to paint all of with by hand. I searched through the comments and found the solution, use Ctrl + x instead of Shift + k It's totally an awesome tutorial :D i've made my very first sculpture and honestly i was afraid that i couldn't handle it but it was way more easy and fun than i tought, ofc all thanks to you :) i love the way you teach, your voice is so calm and soft it doesn't make me tired even if i listen for a long time :3

[@grabbitt]

Possible shoft x now. I think someone mentioned in the comments

[@SeonVespera]

@@grabbitt i searched trough the comments and found it thx anyway :)

[@st3vez]

@@SeonVespera it is control + X now in 4.x blender

[@SeonVespera]

@@st3vez yeah i found it, thanks tho

[@st3vez]

@@SeonVespera it is mostly for other people looking for solution to the same problem in the comments, but no worries ;)

[@princessambieplayz5539]

Hey how do you stop it from painting the eye's?

[@grabbitt]

Keep the eyes as superstar objects

[@princessambieplayz5539]

@@grabbitt Ah ty

[@Zero0189]

In blender 4.0 Shift + k Is now shift + X

[@grabbitt]

Thanks

[@designersoup]

Have I been saying attribute wrong this whole time?

[@NoxavRagu]

Great Video. But i coudnt use shift-k for fill-in and also coud not find it under key bindings. Wonder why

[@grabbitt]

Not sure what's happened there

[@Marhoektube]

Hi, great thanks, will this also work on sculpts with the multiresolution modifier ? Thanks

[@grabbitt]

yes

[@Marhoektube]

@@grabbitt Ok thanks!

[@vivekvictordungdung8859]

I used this for sculptober but didnt realise that there can be multiple attributes.

[@razorblade413]

Does somebody knows how to export a low poly model with vertex colors to a COLLADA file? I'm using blender 3.6.5 and when exporting to .dae file, it doesn't contain the vertex colors information. The only data that i had are vertex positions, texture coordinates and normals. My game engine only reads vertex positions, texture coordinates, and indices and i want to add vertex colors to the loader. Thanks!

[@Rin-iy4ko]

Hey there ! I wanna ask how do u rotate the screen or the sculpt 360 degree while working with the pen table ? Coz I need to shift from mouse to pen again and again when I'm sculpting in order to rotate my model (I'm a beginner so I've no idea)

[@grabbitt]

See my graphics tablet setup video

[@Rin-iy4ko]

@@grabbitt ok thanks !

[@claudiosettiart]

I did have a question: could you paint with a material in vertex mode, or do you need UV's to do so? For example, if I want to add metallic paint onto a skin material as opposed to just a color attribute...

[@grabbitt]

There doesn't seem to be a way to do that

[@gabrielWachong]

can you then bake the vertex paint to a texture if you retopo the sculpt? Or wold it be better to first retopo and then do texture paint? Im sort of confused between the 2 modes

[@grabbitt]

Yes retopo then bake

[@thebuniverse6739]

I thought when you color your character means to texture wrap the character or do you do both color them in blender and create the wrapping in photoshop?

[@grabbitt]

all in blender is a little simpler

[@alexlealch]

A Blender sculpt to Substance Painter, please.

[@johnt.mickevich2772]

Is anyone else having a problem with Undo in Vertex Paint? It doesn't seem to work at all.

[@grabbitt]

Should be ok

[@MaTigerProduction786]

Please help me 😢 Unwrapping problem texture iam applying to alien airship upper circular part of airship stretched in vertical z axis becoming bigger stretched lines

[@BobJones-cd9mt]

Adjust the Unwrap scale in the UV editor. on the effected axis while in render so you can see your adjustments on the model as you do them.

[@kameleltohamy]

what is the difference between using your method and regular texture painting Mode ?

[@grabbitt]

this is a lot faster to set up and a better drawing experience. But you need to bake it to export to game engines

[@SOAPYBUBBLES.812]

I love this method of painting, but I went back to Remesh my model in sculpt mode and it got rid of all the painting I did ;-; is there a way to keep the paint even with remeshing?

[@grabbitt]

I think this is something they are working on in blender 4.1

[@stings7]

there is no link in description to download the face

[@grabbitt]

it was in the previous video where you sculpt the face but i've placed in in the description now

[@stings7]

​@@grabbittthank you

[@shivanshibhardwaj3216]

Hey m using blender4.0 and my shift+k in vertex paint is not working pls help me out with this.

[@grabbitt]

I'll look into it

[@mateosantinusandizaga4181]

same over here, did u solve it?

[@vivekgeorge4098]

use CTRL + X@@mateosantinusandizaga4181

[@davestomper3428]

Well I really like the video but you didn't explain how we would save the custom vertex paint skin ??? Can it be used for other characters or??

[@grabbitt]

Do you mean the palette

[@davestomper3428]

I was hoping after you texture paint their should be away to save out the painted texture so it could be used in unreal, unity, or godot as a material or texture

[@grabbitt]

@@davestomper3428 look up baking

[@feraspielt]

I dunno why, but if I try to paint or set a material colour in shadinw, nothing happens. I see no colour on my sculpture :/ Unwrapping tutorial too, the tool dont unwrap me anything

[@arthiyaxn]

same

[@redceltnet]

I enjoy your tutorials, but FTLOG can you *please* say the word "attribute" correctly? Emphasis on the second syllable (the way you say it) is the verb: a-TRIB-yoot. Emphasis on the first syllable (the way you *should* be saying it) is the noun: AT-rib-yoot. I wouldn't comment if it was mentioned a few times, but I'm at 2:34 and it's killing me already. :)

[@avyaprashantkachhwaha5471]

This was a fire tutorial, but how can we export it to game engines

[@grabbitt]

You have to retopologize and bake

[@user-oq8qu2ci6m]

if i made a little bit different face inspired and followed by you can i sell it ?

[@grabbitt]

Yes

[@user-oq8qu2ci6m]

thank you 😇@@grabbitt

[@kuraitsuno4004]

👍

[@gamerzheaven000]

Can you tell me how I can separate the upper and ther lower lip apart for lip-syncing?? Plz help me. And Which youtube chaneel is best for learning blender animations??/ Answer my questions plz.

[@grabbitt]

Easiest with retopology

[@gamerzheaven000]

@@grabbitt Plz guide me how with retopology???

[@grabbitt]

see my play list

[@gamerzheaven000]

@@grabbitt plz tell me the playlist name

[@grabbitt]

@@gamerzheaven000 kzbin.info/aero/PLn3ukorJv4vs8PQj8z_PMbZAVLFEhQF5L

[@-Yashwanthv]

did u retopology the mesh before shading

[@grabbitt]

No

[@-Yashwanthv]

Did u do uv

[@grabbitt]

You don't need to for vertex paint

[@woosheroes494]

🔥👍❤️🙏💪

[@darkzone1432]

Im lagging a lot when painting?!.. Bad PC?

[@grabbitt]

Possibly yes

[@razure.]

i dont have colour attribute

[@grabbitt]

have you got the recent version of blender

[@razure.]

maybe not thanks@@grabbitt

[@hahahahahahhaha6519]

is this the same when it comes to painting dark skin color

[@grabbitt]

Yes

[@cielstar04]

How do I erase😭

[@grabbitt]

You choose the colour you want to erase to

[@Meals92]

shift K doesnt work

[@csabarista3499]

You cannot just go from sculpting to texture paint. I'm getting wierd patchy spots on the surface using your tutorial. I think uv unwrapping is missing and I probably doing it wrong

[@grabbitt]

It's not texture painting it's vertex painting

[@csabarista3499]

@@grabbitt sorry my bad, I need to rewatch and pay more attention lol.

[@grabbitt]

No problem at all, its an easy mistake to make

[@csabarista3499]

@@grabbitt is there a way to make it less lagging? when i decimate the mesh it start to look ugly and still lagging a bit

[@grabbitt]

@csabarista3499 using the multires modifier is the answer but it's a touch complicated to explain. Check my videos on the subject

[@MaTigerProduction786]

😢😢

[@user-os5fz7th3l]

I like your work. but "sculpting" is not possible to animate

[@bmzih]

An easy way to go around this is using the Multiresolution modifier. You can get a base mesh and have a multi res modifier added then you can increase the subdivisions and go on to sculpt the necessary details. Once done sculpting, you just bake the details in a normal map and you can adjust the poly count by reducing the subdivisions

[@user-os5fz7th3l]

@@bmzih Yes i shall try.Thanks

[@papabear12]

You really should properly credit Sinix and link him in this as it is the basis of your lesson.

[@jasperzatch610]

Lol it isn't it looks like his own Gamedev course that he made. He's been teaching blender for over 15 years man, to think Sinix owns this 'sculpt shape' or any tools Grant is using is a huge stretch.

[@grabbitt]

Yeah, unfortunately, I wasn't completely sure it was them and found the image on Pinterest, which did not reference where it was from.

[@lossapote]

I love these tuts

[@aprae7698]

I’m experiencing lag with vertex paint. I was wondering with a i5-12400 intel cpu and 3070 GTX gpu if it is due to my sculpt having 4 million faces, or if I should look at getting better hardware for my computer? I can’t even simplify the mesh without it crashing on me 🥲

[@grabbitt]

4 million faces is a fair bit. Its better to use a multires workflow

[@aprae7698]

@@grabbitt right okay, thank you for the advice x