Hochelf’s Blender Progress

[hochelf]

The materials came out nicely. But I can’t uif figure out the details on the phone and the books are chomped by the denoiser or if the light is just messing with me.

[hochelf]

Submit version:

Yes, the culprit was the denoiser. XD

[Shawn Blanch]

That is a nice low poly scene @hochelf . If you spread the books out a little bit and make them not all exactly lined up (just shift them a little) it will help sell the scene. A little more light intensity would help with the effect too.

You can always turn off the denoiser and just render more samples in cycles when you are ready for the final render. I like to think of the denoiser as a helper to get me up and running quickly so I can get the results previewed.

[hochelf]

Started the sculpting tutorial yesterday. The first two chapters are so much info stuff, that I decided to chunk it down into more suitable sized bits.

Currently, I’m learning to deal with several brushes and get annoyed with the fact that I haven’t developed the muscle endurance in my right hand for longer sessions with the pen. Seriously, how have professionals dealt with the numbness in their early days?

I set my desktop up in an ergonomic way, which means pen parallel to screen. Desk in a hight that allows for a straight back etc.

Btw. here is my current experimental piece for the brushes.

[Mark Smith]

indeed this is good work, I like the spider…

keep going!!

[Shawn Blanch]

Very nice beginner sculpting exercise.

sculpting is not currently one of my strengths but you are incorporating the important work habits.

make sure you take breaks and do hand stretches.

I use my ipad pro with easycanvas app as my pen tablet when sculpting. I don’t remember getting any sort of hand cramping but I have only sculpted a shark in recent past. So maybe other users could comment.

[sbv]

Hola @hochelf ! Looking nice! You got more out of your virtual clay than I did when I just tried to get a bit of an idea of it.

As for your cramping. I did a fair share of Digital Painting in the past. (as a matter of fact I recently plugged in my old Intuos3 to try the sculpting).

While it is true that a little endurance is required, cramping is mostly just too firm a grip on the pen and trying to push too hard on the tablet trying to get the maximum out of its pressure sensitivity.  Try going to the tablet settings and see how quickly your pressure will reach its maximum. You’ll see even the default settings will reach that point much faster than you’ll remember once you’re in the flow of creating something.  Taking it easy in that department and it will already increase your endurance much more. Its better to learn how to press as little as possible than teach yourself to press too hard. Maybe even increase its sensitivity to practice that.

[spikeyxxx]

Also, try to not sculpt or draw from the wrist, but from the elbow and shoulder. It automatically reduces the tension in your muscles that causes the cramps, like @somebaldviking already pointed out. Think of the pen as a little bird, if you hold it too tight you will squeeze it to death and if you hold it too loose, it will fly away 🙂

[hochelf]

from the elbow and checking the settings. Got that. Thanks for those hints. I hope that will help me to avoid numbness. 🙂

I see it was no mistake to follow the instruction of opening this thread.

[hochelf]

while I’m still watching the videos I attempt to familiarize myself more with the brushes.

I also tried to to make sure to not use my wrist all the time, with the pen and tried to be more careful about the pressure I use. Another thing I did differently was, I didn’t hold the pen like a  pen. Instead, I tried to hold it upwards in a 90° degree angle. This time I could do a longer session. 🙂 

I hope the general idea I had in mind for the shape is understandable. 

[Shawn Blanch]

I’m thinking it is the remnant home of a well known reptile, long since deceased.

[hochelf]

started the Toonshark today. I will follow the same shark as in the video, for a starter. I will try one of the others later down the line.

Here is the block out from the first video:

[hochelf]

Face Part 1.

And the session today was without numbness. 😀 Again thanks for the helpful tips. The most important was probably the tip with the pressure control, which I got under control with the 90° angle.

[Shawn Blanch]

Hey that is looking really good so far @hochelf 

[hochelf]

Face Part 2

Dyntopo is still confusing to me. But I start to get the hang of it.

Especially with the crease/pinch brush combo. 😉 The “relative detail” option seems to be the more intuitive one to me. So I will stick to that for now. But the collapse options, even if I understand the meaning behind their terms, do sometimes unexpected things. 

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