Portrait

This project definitely required some trial and error at the beginning. Starting with a very basic face and head mesh, I was too eager to get started on the detailing, and took the work into sculpting too quickly, trying to build out the hair shape and restructure the face with large sculpting brushes instead of altering the actual geometry. The second time around, I worked much longer on modeling the shape of the face and hair before sculpting at a greater detail. This approach was so much easier, and I learned a lot about the strengths and weaknesses of each workspace as well as how to use different techniques to model off of a reference. Modeling worked best to make large facial structure adjustments, and the textures mimicking the stone are a mixture of alphas and small sculpting tools.