Sculpting in Blender: A Complete Beginner's Guide

[@dudelkin9306]

Before watching this video, I watched a BUNCH of sculpting tutorials, but only you explained it as clearly as possible!!! Thank you soooo much, Grant!

[@jakkdlaw]

Finally, I sculpted a head! look out world, here I come! Thank you so much for this tutorial, even with knowledge of human anatomy I was still totally stuck until you came along.

[@MyCrystalPlaid]

This tutorial was a delight to follow, Grant. You sounded like you were really enjoying what you were doing and having a lot of fun with the sculpt. That made it a ton of fun for me to try to replicate your sculpt. Thank you for making so many tutorials available. You were recommended by the instructor in my very first Blender class, and you're still my go-to tutor.

[@grabbitt]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@lenmercury7857]

its actually one of the first tutorials, that made me actually understand sculpting! I have trouble learning stuff sometimes due to my disability so thank you!!!!

[@donut2ninja]

That was so fun! I made an ancient old man who looks like he'd hold all the knowledge of the world. Your guide was very informative and made following along very easy. It has really given me a confidence boost to keep trying!

[@DaniZanskar]

I've watched lots of tutorials, but i've never had this much fun and learnt so much. I think i'm gonna like sculpting in Blender now 😊

[@thyongamer]

I tried on my own and I was struggling with the Sculpting mode and all the "too many" tools to use. You've just simplified it to like 3 tools. That's fantastic to see the gaps that I had in order to progress. Thanks a lot.

[@anthonyobryan3485]

This was a fun experience. I have next to no artistic talent at all, and I learned a lot. I first jumped into your dragon tutorial, and I got nowhere at all. I've been using Blender for about 17 years to make very simple models (I'm now in my fifties), and have learned a lot along the way, but I've been avoiding sculpting for as long as Blender has had sculpting, for the above-mentioned lack of artistic talent. My immediate failure with the dragon was quite depressing, as I need to create a child-friendly dragon for one of my projects. I resigned myself to having to learn to walk before learning to run, so I found this sculpting tutorial and made it all the way through. My head looks reasonable, given my near complete lack of artistic talent, and I've regained my motivation. I'm impressed with how much can be done with sculpting for someone like me with just a few tools.

[@graullas8981]

Hey, everyone is an artist to some degree - if you have created your own head from a ball, I think you can call yourself an artist, it's nothing short of it.

[@rayb.5609]

I havent had this much fun in a long time. I recently graduated with a degree in game design. I am going to look into enrolling in a game art degree program. thank you!

[@IamBLAA98]

Wow. You’re like the Bob Ross of 3D art - I came to learn about sculpting (and I did) but I can easily see myself coming back to this video for a good night story. You have such a soft voice! 😍 And funny “evil“ laughter hehe

[@grabbitt]

Haha. Thanks 😀

[@pr4shantishere]

Grant to the rescue as always

[@nateconnelly]

I'm just starting out on my Blender journey and am now on week three - so thankful to have found your channel! Thank you

[@hubertdendraak9313]

An incredibly helpful tutorial for beginners (like me) looking for a first introduction to sculpting in Blender. Just the right pacing, touches on all the fundamentals in an accessible way very clear instructions, invaluable tips. Thank you, Grant!

[@cleberlimacls]

Just want to add something for beginners who also use a graphic pad/pen: Another option for views instead of using gizmo or pressing numpad is "ALT + Hold and drag left click" to the direction. I felt very intuitive and easier to work since my finger are already on Shift or CTRL. Tks Grant, great content.

[@rodneymathews6775]

I started picking up 3D again in the last few days since I last did 3D like 14 years ago (Been only doing 2D artwork during that span)! The last 3D program I used was Maya. Blender is far easier to use and your tutorials just made my choice to go with Blender all the better! Definitely subbed!

[@Velgan83]

Hey there! Just wanted to thank you for all the free knowledge you provide! Trust me, if I wasn't struggling to buy food at the end of each month, I would definitely buy some of your courses! I really loved when you giggled when adding some details to the sculpt, shows how much you enjoy what you do. Thanks again! And cya around soon ~

[@Mightydoggo]

Great video, as always! Btw for anyone wanting to support the guy and struggling with organization, I can recommend the courses. I decided to give it a try because it´s really hard to get a coherent learning experience when suffering from adhd, but the way the lessons are structured, the length and the missing of any fluff have been a pretty smooth experience for me so far. Big W.

[@grabbitt]

Thanks 🙂

[@bonkyandstebe8187]

This is literally the best step by step tutorial i have ever seen

[@Safetymodaa]

شكرا لك من اعماق قلبي لم اجد في كل اليوتيوب شخص يشرح افضل منك

[@TheBubbajuju]

Amazing pace and tone, perfect instruction for a beginner. So professional.

[@kollarking3264]

Definitely one of the best tutorials I've seen.

[@grabbitt]

Glad it was helpful!

[@CircusOfBedlam]

I just switched from C4D/Zbrush to Blender. I hate Zbrush but looks like Blender is the tool for me. Words cannot say how much this video helped. 100% the most useful tutorial I have ever gone through. Thanks!

[@StarAffectus]

Thank youuu!!! Me and my friend are starting a claymation series and i need to know how to use blender because we'll be 3d printing props and all of our skeletons for our puppets!!!

[@nickersontommy]

Just made the most cursed image, forgive me for my sins

[@timhoward5]

You're forgiving.

[@aga1nstall0dds]

I think that's his face

[@kat.s.a8920]

😂😂😂😂😂

[@TheSatzy6699]

I like the video pauses that you give for us to follow along, so thoughful !!!

[@Chase.Something]

A little late to the video - I'm new to Blender and after a search for 'blender sculpting' I landed on this video. Learned a lot in a short 30 minutes. Great video. Thank you for the help!

[@marztecheque]

Your tutorial here is an absolute *Godsend* thank you sir! I cannot tell you how many times I have torn out my hair trying to get some basic sculpting done in Blender. I don't do enough to warrant zbrush at its price. Zbrush core mini doesn't allow easy import of existing models. Thank you so much Grant Abbitt! I had a model I'm making for a game asset in Unity - and right away I see how just having my avatar facing forward along X has been screwing me up - less than 5 minutes into the tutorial and already worth its weight in gold. Thank YOU!

[@1223santigato]

I think that smoothing shouldn't be used till the end. Is better to increase the policount as much as possible from the beginning to really experience digital sculpting, use a brush that builds form fast. Do not care much about weird textures at the beginning but think about building the right forms first and once that is accomplished then refine with smoothing. Don't start refining from the beginning, Do it at the end. Thanks for the tutorial, you are a fantastic teacher and beyond that, you are a fantastic person for giving away this information for free.

[@canagoblinpaint6364]

Best teacher I have ever had!

[@a.m.7438]

11:59 absolutely awesome advice and tip, thank you. I really need to get used to using shift and ctrl. But I've only been using Blender for 1 week. Been putting myself through it with tutorials and practicing. Lots of personal work and it's really fun. Learning so much.

[@chrisclark784]

Great video! I'm absolutely horrendous at drawing people, but for some reason sculpting in Blender comes naturally.

[@baboucheka9400]

best sculpt tutorial i've ever watch thank you :)

[@Ashtarot77]

I'm well chuffed with how mine turned out 😁 Going to try it on a realistic character next. 🙌

[@JakOfAllTrades]

This has been amazingly helpful in understanding and using the sculpt tools in blender! On a side note: I got serious Bob Ross feelings during the entire tutorial and felt like I was watching The Joy of Painting as a kid again.

[@Charly_Gren]

Ohhh man thank you so much i have 17 years, i love it and in cuba , we don't have any oportunity for to buy course 'cause our money don't have value in other country , thank you again

[@szabolcsdenes6626]

I never taught I will learn sculpting from a 30 min video, u are amazing man, we love u . :DDD

[@TruthSurge]

wow, I had no idea you could remesh over and over. I thought it was something you did after you were done. Ok, so remesh just sort of finds polygons that are too large and converts to more detail and also ones too small? and ups them so that most of them are in a tight range? well, I guess all that matters is you can keep equalizing to your target range every time. Yeah, big to small. Foundation and form first because if you go in detail first, you'll not be able to easily change your big shapes or maybe its iffy but this is very interesting and helpful to see what youre supposed to be doing. thx

[@TheBullterrierFan]

I've just installed blender, I always wanted to try. I made my first sculpt thanks to you and it's amazing! I'm gonna dig into your videos and consider buying your tutorials. You're a very good teacher. I'm jumping onto another episode.

[@grabbitt]

Glad I could help!

[@svenjaminfranklin471]

That was so good and fun! I'm CAD designer but wanting to learn how to be more proficient with organic designs so cant wait to try your other vids! you've got a new subscriber for sure!

[@NJFletcher]

This looks great. Just watched the full thing, and looking forward to following along. Thanks for putting in the time to make this video.

[@patcowley6378]

EASIEST TO FOLLOW LESSON...OMG DID MORE IN 5 MINUTES THAN EVER BEFORE ...LIKED AND SUBBED

[@Twe1veofc1ubs]

i can''t describe how much i thank you for this tutorial! This is the best guide i''ve seen so far. Definately gonna check the rest of your videos.

[@grabbitt]

Glad it helped!

[@remusveritas739]

thank you, now my sculpts look instantly better than i ever imagined i would get today. pfeeeeww i knew its gotta be easy if you already know anatomy, i just have to hear somebody tell it step by step how it all works. next your coloring video man, im so hyped

[@ryeloafbreadmen1080]

Excellent video! Been having a hard time with sculpting and this really made it click with me

[@eliellgvs1]

Ok, the best tut abou t sculpting in blender, you convinced me. Thank you, I'll keep watching and practicing w/ all videos in your channel.

[@bayu_peasy]

I love this guy, the explanation is very easy to understand, the step by step is also very detailed. Thank you bro!

[@bennyoaks131]

DUDE! Your studio is absolutely awesome!!!

[@businessgrid]

Thank you so much for creating this video!! It was quite difficult for me to follow other tutorials - you explained everything really well!!

[@kamius1]

Hi dear Grant, I enjoyed watching this tutorial very much. It is really easy to follow and helpful to gain the skills for sculpting in Blender.

[@grabbitt]

Glad it was helpful!

[@Markus86J]

This is so helpful! I never knew which of the sculpting tools in Blender to start with. Thanks!

[@Anton_Royale]

First blender tutorial that actually worked out for me. Thank you so much!!!

[@Phase_waves]

Thank you, I've been wanting to make 3D models of my characters for a while and your narration makes it so easy to follow along with :)

[@Tomy_Yon]

I like you adding in pause moments. It is so considerate. And, hey, I'm actually sculpting a head from scratch. 😊

[@SavoirPourTous]

Thank you for this video, Two questions: Do you have a link to explain the difference between Dynotopo, remesh and multi resolution ? Which solution when you create a monster to put on an armature ? Thanks for your answers,

[@grabbitt]

It's in my sculpting playlist

[@ferencattilaszoke7555]

your explain is very easy to understand....thank you so much, i am following you, and this is the job what i want to support...please do more

[@bojangles684]

Doesn't just teach you how to do it, but explains what you are doing and why. Thank you

[@andromeda4257]

i have a hard time with 2D stuff and can't always get my hand on clay to work it myself, so i wanted to give blender a go to sculpt my characters. i finished the donut tutorial a few days ago and I'm excited by the comments to see what this tutorial and the playlist you put together has to offer :D

[@purposeoflife47]

My first sculpt completed. Thanks Grant Abbit . You are awsome

[@afafmellaha]

YOU ACTUALLY HAVE THE BEST TECHNIQUE TO TEACH , this tutorial was really super cool and very easy to follow , its my first time sculpting ever , and i skipped a lot of tutorial because they wre really hard to follow , thanks a loot and will definitely buy your paid course too

[@grabbitt]

Thanks very much

[@Gairsh98]

Thank you for your great, free tutorials Grant

[@OfficialCranfordian]

never thought i'd hear Jaime Lannister teach me Blender

[@SkeasySimple]

Very well done video, thank you. You have a very soothing voice and I like that you take everything calmly and don't rush. I bet I'm not the only one (haven't read comments yet) who thinks of Bob Ross here haha.

[@macofish1]

Sweet I've got a couple of yours that are older...I think all the way back to 2.8. Wow that was like 4 years ago? I was thinking of starting one of those today, I think it was the one where it was a tree stump on a floating island but it's a couple of hours (I'll get to it) but this is a quick 1/2 hour...can't wait! Cheers sir!

[@zimmmerit6308]

You are the best teacher!

[@tacticallubricant]

Great video, I needed to learn sculpting for a project and this nailed it!

[@GabeDStudios]

I'm glad i watched your video. i learned a few new things. Thank you. Your voice is also very relaxing.

[@RadioactiveGoose]

Thanks for this beginner's guide! It helped a lot to get me started. Is there a way to move between subdivision levels? Like in ZBrush? I feel like that's a necessary feature to complete the workflow.

[@grabbitt]

Yes you can just go to the modifier and go up and down the levels

[@navaneethkrishna5229]

2:43 i can't see add to sphere option

[@mervecelik5689]

thank you for this amazing tutorial! I was looking for a good one to learn sculpting but they were lack of detail and not beginner friendly. it was an amazing tutarial which taught things that I couldn't learn from the other videos. This is the first time I've written an youtube comment so you can understand how good this is 💣

[@grabbitt]

Glad you liked it!

[@7anzalaanagy341]

Easiest one teaching blender thanks a lot can we retopology this mesh and rig it ?

[@grabbitt]

Yes

[@7anzalaanagy341]

@@grabbitt know so we need tutorial for it :)

[@grabbitt]

@@7anzalaanagy341 see my retopology playlist

[@7anzalaanagy341]

@@grabbitt

[@robby_0816]

Simply amazing! Thank you so much for sharing this free tutorial with us!

[@matone4374]

bro your voice is so calming . youre the blender bob ross

[@kittenkraze8522]

DO NOT REMESH TO 0.001! the file is 1.5 gigabytes and I am scared

[@FreeFolkStreaming]

Jest waw You are so professional, greet video more information less time. Allah bless Your efforts

[@PaulEmsley]

Great stuff! Looking forward to painting/shading. Curious to see what you're going to do with the eyes. (re: the part between the nose and mouth, it's "philtrum", btw).

[@grabbitt]

The link is working now!! so you can purchase the bundle Master sculpting with my complete sculptors bundle only $29 (plus local tax) shorturl.at/dfuA6

[@ShenHibiki]

...aaaand now I can magically sculpt. Damn, good tutorial, you opened the door and I'll make sure to bring chaos along!

[@RayGalactic]

Thank you so much! This was a great tutorial!

[@wouterachtig-y6z]

Hi, I'm very new tot this kind of 3D drawing/sculpting. I've always been drawing in Rhino, mostly for jewelry applications, but this is so fascinating and allowing much more possibilities for creating free form natural 3D models. This is one of the most helpful tutorials I came across! You're explaining every step with the correct empathic attitude to understand it as a beginner. At the moment I've got one crucial question, what kind of pen-tablet would you advice to start sculpting in Blender? Any brand/model you could advice? Anyway, thank you very much for this great tutorial, making it look 'easy'. Can't wait to try this out and build up some experience.

[@grabbitt]

see my ultimate guide to graphics tablets in blender. Short answer xp pen is the brand i would currently recommend

[@konradwelz8752]

This is honestly like watching Bob Ross... calming magic.

[@IlseMulAuthor]

Thanks for an interesting tutorial! I'm going to try this in the future :)

[@StrunDoNhor]

I'm an old-school, low-poly modeler. While I am always eager to learn, I _am_ learning slightly begrudgingly (I'm just stubborn). To me, topology is still the groundwork of a good model, _not_ something you just throw at a junior or intern while saying, "Here, retopolgize this." But again, I'm just stubborn. And this is the way the wind is blowing.

[@akirakasinata-fk8qy]

Nice tutorial ☺️, blender is giving me more problems than what you're describing, but you've helped some of my answers. Thanks for putting these up.

[@th3n0thin94]

Gettin major 3D Bob Ross vibes, lol! Also, clearly an artist would say "an upsidedown W shape" vs just saying an M shape 😎 Super awesome vid and is a massive help to me. Thank you!

[@grabbitt]

Yes, M's often have straight edges 🙂

[@CrookedBear]

Thank you so much for this dude, Blender can be super duper confusing to get used to and as a beginner it’s even harder. Awesome tutorial man!👍🏻

[@pellzysgaming]

Great video. Seems easy to follow, haha. Could you make another of these videos but full body sculpting. Meaning head, body arms, hands, legs, and feet. If you're able to.

[@midniteoilsoftware]

I love watching you work Grant.

[@god0faxolotls4]

Thank you so much! This tutorial helped me tremendously!

[@k9slover]

Very good tutorial, informative and well explained.

[@endscreen1shorts478]

It's incredible and not difficult when your every step is followed, for three months I worked in a fusion model of a fish and a mold for that fish, for three months I studied every day, every day at least two hours studying in that program, I knew ten hours at a time, a month today I was fixing the mold and the fish, I wanted to put small details and scales on that fish and I realized that I will have to learn to work in the blender, yesterday I turned on the blender for the first time, I watched a couple of tutorials and now I came across yours and I needed everything an hour to make a sculpture of a head similar to yours, I closed a window by mistake and then I closed the blender and didn't save the sculpture, I made a similar one again in 15 minutes but one thing doesn't work, I can't get a mirror on the eye, when I click on the eye I go to add mode, mirror and it says failed to set value, at the top right of the window when I mark the head it turns green and when I put it on the eye then it turns red, I can mirror the head in the mirror but not the eye, this is the first tutorial I've seen of yours and I will continue to watch them Is it easy to follow you, thank you

[@endscreen1shorts478]

i solved the eye mirror problem, copy and paste the eye and after that when i did it now the eye is orange and i can mirror, weird

[@grabbitt]

with the eye remember its the object centre that is the mirror point unless you choose an object then its that new objects centre

[@whatdaro]

great instructions and right to the point. clear and smooth flow of work, subbed!

[@trigsart9279]

Thank you Grant for this amazing video, however, I’m stacked on 7:26, how did you get the points closed together to sculpt out the nose, mine points are far apart

[@grabbitt]

Remesh to higher res maybe

[@trigsart9279]

Thank you, I just solved it by applying scale and rotation before starting again

[@Tobias-cq2re]

wow i love the tutorial thank you so much!

[@JackxT-Q]

dude, how do i make my 1 dots into 2 dots?in 5:09

[@grabbitt]

x symmetry on the top toolbar. used to be on by default

[@selv_]

I learned blender from you, I know all your videos are blender only but it would be great if you did 3dCoat stuff

[@bradhowland]

Grant -what display tablet do you use? Thank you for all these great videos, they are easy to follow and full of useful info, no fluff!

[@grabbitt]

I currently have a xenceclabs however I'd also recommend xp pen

[@bradhowland]

Awesome, thanks for the info @@grabbitt

[@heckensteiner4713]

Great tutorial! After a couple of hours of banging my head against the wall, I now know why Blender's sculpting defaults to one viewport window: because Blender doesn't update additional viewports in Sculpting mode. I thought it was some kind of bug because all the viewports are updated when moving points in edit mode. It's probably for performance reasons. Shame because I like to be able to see an additional side or front view while I'm sculpting.

[@grabbitt]

It should update?

[@88RunnerBlade]

Thanks Grant. Can you please make some detail all in one Animation course talking about everything, graphs, keyframes, motion capture, rigging.... and different techniques of animation, water, fire and so on.

[@grabbitt]

yes im planning to

[@mrhollywood5285]

Good day Grant. Is there a addon that will make this model a Quad based model with out going through the re-topology process? One that comes to mind is Quad Remesher.

[@grabbitt]

yes thats what i would use

[@mrhollywood5285]

@@grabbitt Thanks mate

[@atrxx_xiii]

I'm currently getting into sculpting in blender on my Mac, is it possible that I use my iPad Pro + Apple Pencil as a "graphics tablet" instead of having to buy a separate one?

[@grabbitt]

I think I heard it was but not completely sure

[@atrxx_xiii]

@@grabbitt thank you!