Sculpting a Female Face in ZBrush from a Photo

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Welcome back everyone I am Follygon and in this video I am going to be sculpting a female character from a photo in ZBrush! Sculpting the female face can be really difficult and I hope that you can learn something new in this video to help you with your own work. I really enjoy talking about my process in these videos but I can't always go super in depth on every little thing. That's why I have created many tutorials that you can follow along with to create your very own female character just like this one at Gumroad.com/Follygon. If you have something you would like to see me sculpt in the future, let me know in the comments! I am always looking for new ideas and character to create in 3D. Let me know if you enjoyed the idea here of turning photos into 3D characters. I had a lot of fun sculpting this girl and would love to do something like this again! If you have any cool photos that you think would translate to 3D please send those my way! I hope you guys enjoy the video and maybe learn something new. If you've read all this, what are you doing with your life!? jk, I love you ❤️
Photo ref from / beatrizmarianophotography
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[@BeatrizMarianoPhotography]

Hello. I’ve been redirected here by plenty of fans. I’m the girl in the image you are using for reference. It’s from a shooting I made for Rogue + Wolf.

[@Follygon]

thanks so much for commenting, I added a link to your insta in the description

[@BeatrizMarianoPhotography]

@@Follygon Thank you so much! 😊

[@peacemaster8117]

Is it surreal seeing your face being sculpted out of a ball of digital clay?

[@kolupsy]

Follygon: a big gap between nose and mouth make a character look old... *proceeds to sculpt wrinkles into the neck and adding in grey hair* hmmm

[@Follygon]

lol

[@hiffahyphae6707]

Kolupsy I mean she has grey hair in the reference

[@thinkinmonkey]

Folly, great sculpting as usual, but very entertaining video. Thank you a lot for sharing such gorgeous results.

[@epic_mouse8613]

You went from pasta to straight up dough :D I mean, it's definitely a tricky one! I personally would go with hair cards, but I'm in no position to judge. Great video as always!

[@wilhelm992]

Dude I can not wait for more videos, love your stuff, so great!

[@Dog3D]

Your sculpting process is oddly satisfying to watch. Good stuff

[@M12bchannel]

Dude, your tutorials are awesome, I legit just had gave up and went for this one, great video!

[@VeryFunStudio]

Love the way you reach final stage of the hairs.

[@johnmccanntruth]

She turned out great!

[@shreyasshankar4109]

Love your professionalism and skill! You're brilliant mate.

[@Gatz3D]

Excellent breakdowns! You have a great understanding of the shape and form of every piece! Very good video! Very informative!

[@4guysand1toptenlist]

great work and tutorial, Thanks Ben

[@MazeIvy]

Love your work, you helped me so much to understand other (better yet simpler) way of solving problems.

[@Follygon]

Glad it helped!

[@Odaun]

Love how the final turned out! Really good work on the hair! I wonder if Zbrush will ever add better systems for hair

[@ricarldoharris6037]

One of my favorites sir folly

[@FoxyLollyy]

Shes gorgeous thanks for the tutorial 💕

[@deanubizzz1408]

1:24 that made me laugh out loud oh my god haha

[@Lightstarbro]

you just blow up my mind its so crazy

[@dutchdronefootage]

Thank you for sharing your process, this has been super useful for me! Any chance you can do a video where you elaborate on your process going from ZBrush to Blender? I'd love to use the same workflow but how do you go about creating the UV-maps, the materials, render settings etc.

[@saintssinner5806]

I use that exact photo for a face claim for an oc of mine, for writing and role playing

[@dipootube]

For someone who has no skill at all on what you were doing here... this is just WOOWW to me!. If I'm a movie producer, I definitely will hire you with the price... well, you name it!

[@Brookpitlik]

Thank you 👍

[@ADI-xp4qe]

I would like to know about your Lighting setup:). Looks like paramount. Really resourceful mate thanks 🙌🏻

[@popdogsoda3047]

The model is Beatriz Mariano @beatrizmarianophotography if anyone's wondering.

[@BeatrizMarianoPhotography]

Jaime Kroupa thank you so much! I’m glad you recognized me!

[@ObsidianAnimation2112]

Helpful advice

[@noogiesm]

really love this character! she reminds me of a secratary bird. i'd like to see some original designs/characters from you some time, since you seem to always work off of preexisting designs

[@Follygon]

Thanks! I do on occasion but I'm not much of a character designer

[@noogiesm]

@@Follygon i think it would be a neat challenge and facinating to see the whole process!! great work as always :D

[@10418]

You are awesome...!

[@spiritlesswolf2029]

Nice!

[@Serhiivna]

Good job, bro!) I think that artist have his best progress when he remake part of his project. And it's ok when we couldn't do smth good when we do it first time. We just need keep working :)

[@Willbeatu]

Something I would love to see is like a polygon count in the corner or something, one of my biggest struggles at the moment is learning when and how much to increase the polygons to get the shapes I want.

[@Follygon]

I rarely pay attention to the number of polygons. I more so pay attention to my surface. If it is looking faceted for what I am creating, I add some more polys in the mix!

[@arstropica]

Hi! I just discovered your channel - thank you for your very instructive videos. Which tablet & pen did you use to do the sculpt? Do you prefer using a drawing tablet over a graphics tablet?

[@mbrezzz]

Where do you render the final models? I'm having a hard time trying to make Zbrush and Maya communicate so I can render with Arnold. This interface you're using in 9:30 seems a little more intuitive. Thanks in advance, great video as always!

[@panosdimi4713]

A always the drawin is the power

[@XicoVidal]

Wow

[@Aditya_Sawant_Tattoos]

you are crazy...i love your work ....can you help sharing a video on how to exactly use the tools for facial features like ... eyes & lips...thets the point where i stuck every day...it will help alot if you can make a video on that

[@AnatheStrange]

The model is Beatriz Mariano! @beatrizmarianophotography on insta!

[@Follygon]

Good find! Thank you. Adding to the description

[@BeatrizMarianoPhotography]

Ana thank you so much babe! I keep finding random people using my artworks, but no credits... I’m glad it’s getting fixed!

[@emilydownes4607]

1:23 why is that image weirdly cute?

[@soneiswild]

can u sculpt phos from land of the lustrous or any character from the anime?

[@lordhumungus712]

How did you export to Blender? Decimate? Retopo? Full rez FBX? Individual components? Looks like you had something like 13M+ polys so I was wonderin'...

[@user-hz1fw9wf5s]

我听不太懂你说的什么，但是感觉你挺厉害的！

[@goatednini9053]

this is amazing! what program do you use?

[@umeko4436]

Great video, can u do video about rendering

[@anjihs3701]

How would you do lace?

[@realjames1]

Your alien phase and my alien phase is like comparing toyota to a Ferrari

[@Follygon]

lol

[@TheJiamy]

With a character like this, who has a middle part where you can see the hair line, if you ever want the hair to blend with the skin better (so it looks a little less helmet-esque, not that there's anything wrong with that but it is an aesthetic choice) something that you might consider trying sometime is painting a bit of the underlying skin color into the part of the hair. Its something that people with lacefront wigs do, and I'm pretty sure it would work in 3d :V then again, thats only if you want! Sculpt on, my dude!

[@josephadebanji2256]

What application do you use for your renders ?

[@redsquirrelstudio6018]

I'm planning on utilizing ZBrush and honestly don't know how to get started. Is it easier to block out the model first?

[@TK-sr2hz]

Yes. Blockout is the most important step. Follygon did a video on this

[@wilhelm992]

Blocking out is the only way to do anything when making 3ad or even 2D stuff

[@Follygon]

Don't think of blockout as a step, but more so as getting down the primary form of what you are going to sculpt. I like to think of it like line art for a drawing. You need that before you can shade or texture. Same idea here. Here's a vid where I go into more detail: kzbin.info/www/bejne/fGjJo56VbLVjZtE

[@anapresent4922]

Which software you used for render sir

[@lawrencelawine9082]

how do you approach the painting in zbrush, whenever I try to paint something, the whole model turns into the color i picked

[@Follygon]

I made a free tut for that :) kzbin.info/www/bejne/ZnrPlJqbf7iBsLs

[@alister7279]

Really AMAZING WORK! Waow! Also, What was the song you used, starting at 09:55 ?

[@Follygon]

I actually don't know. But listening to it, it sounds very much like DJ Quads on soundcloud.

[@murillohenrique7149]

Which software for the render?

[@Happy_Sunny]

Please could you explain how to export Zbrush to Blender for rendering thank.

[@autodidact7127]

Lol what's funny 🤣 is her makeup trick worked. Made you think it was skinnier than it is.

[@digitalart4245]

I wanna see your Characters in animation!!!!!!

[@danicovenant]

What are you rendering your model in? I really enjoyed the video!

[@wilhelm992]

Blender

[@Follygon]

Yep!

[@CursedPetals]

3:12 my sculptures be like

[@TomWDW1]

Gasp!! She's still naked!! :-O Great sculpt!!

[@aymen_]

its Diana : the scorn of the moon from League of legends anyone wonderig

[@BeatrizMarianoPhotography]

aymen it’s me actually lol.

[@TimV777]

which renderer ?

[@Follygon]

blender

[@spincha3755]

i prefere the first hair but that's just me :)

[@CRFAUZI08creatorina]

hi can you sculpt "wayang" characters from Indonesian culture. ❤❤❤

[@magozy]

3:38 i hear Daily dose of Internet

[@emmerkspg3d]

A woman's ear is so delicate and beautiful! Why do 3D artists love to get pointy ears??? Ahhhhhhhhhhh (grrrrrr) I don't like it. I don't see videos of guys who come up with these bat-eared female figures. (I'm laughing so hard) But, your work is good. I like well explained tutorials. Thanks for sharing your knowledge! May you get many followers and many likes! Okay, okay, put whatever ear you want! Hahahaha Hug!

[@quearth5i873]

spaguetti hair xDDD

[@sarabjorgvins3538]

:)

[@ZELFOR]

Faz no Blender...duvido!

[@Veeve4x]

you must be working for disney

[@Stephen-T-Clark]

Hello, Folly Gandhi.

[@childhoodlibrary]

I absolutely love this! Would you be doing male models anytime soon? Your 3D work inspires me so much to start sculpting my male characters, but I just gotta work on my anatomy first 😊

[@TaylorShuffle]

LOL I thought it was Sculpiting from a POTATO. Guess i was wrong hahaha

[@ivelinadimitrova9873]

what is the name of the program you are using?

[@sonicex3559]

This should be in fortnite

[@theartoftuanluqman5836]

Mee hun hair is better tho 😂

[@nurb2kea]

spaghetti looked better ... :-)

[@RM_3D]

It sort of looks like a shes wearing like a turban with some hair strands falling out of it

[@delko000]

too fast for being really useful

[@oldleaf3755]

looks bad