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Sculpting the Blender Way

By : Xury Greer
Book Image

Sculpting the Blender Way

By: Xury Greer

Overview of this book

Sculpting the Blender Way is a detailed step-by-step guide for creating digital art with the latest Blender 3D sculpting features. With over 400 reference images, 18 Sculpting in Action videos, and dozens of 3D sculpture example files, this book is an invaluable resource for traditional and digital sculptors looking to try their hand at sculpting in Blender. The first part of the book will teach you how to navigate Blender's user interface and familiarize yourself with the core workflows, as well as gain an understanding of how the sculpting features work, including basic sculpting, Dyntopo, the Voxel Remesher, QuadriFlow, and Multiresolution. You’ll also learn about a wide range of brushes and all of the latest additions to the sculpting feature set, such as Face Sets, Mesh Filters, and the Cloth brush. The next chapters will show you how to customize these brushes and features to create fantastic 3D sculptures that you can share with the ever-growing Blender community. By the end of this book, you'll have gained a complete understanding of the core sculpting workflows and be able to use Blender to bring your digital characters to life.
Table of Contents (12 chapters)

Exploring custom stroke options

All brushes must use some type of method for applying their effect to the sculpture surface. This method of application is known as the Stroke. Most of the default brushes in Blender use the same basic type of stroke, called Space. Technically, there is no way for the computer to smoothly create brush strokes; we can only create the illusion of smooth brush strokes.

When we use the Space option for our Stroke Method setting, the shape of the brush will be repeatedly stamped onto the sculpture while we draw across its surface. How often this stamping occurs is determined by the Spacing setting of the brush stroke. In Blender, the amount of spacing is measured as a percentage of the brush radius. If we use a high spacing value such as 500%, then the stamps will be repeated infrequently. If we use a very low spacing, such as 10%, then the stamps will be repeated very frequently.

In the following diagram, we can see several lines drawn from left to...