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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)

Adding color to the eyeballs

Up to this point, we have not concerned ourselves with the color of our sculptures, but a small splash of color does wonders for our characters' eyeballs. Every vertex in a 3D model can store color information known as Vertex Colors. Vertex Colors can be painted with a special Interaction Mode called Vertex Paint mode. In this section, we'll learn how to apply color to eyeballs using Vertex Paint mode.

Getting ready

For this section, we will need a head sculpture with eyes that can be painted. Download the provided coloredEyes_Start.blend file here: https://github.com/PacktPublishing/Sculpting-the-Blender-Way/blob/main/Chapter07/coloredEyes_Start.blend.

Launch Blender, and open the .blend file. This scene comes with the sculpture that you can see in the following figure:

Figure 7.9 – The Colored Eyes example file prior to painting the eye color

She looks nice, but a little scary. Her eyes were created through...