Sculpting Natural-Looking Faces

While the Bat Creature has a face, it isn’t one that you’d call classically handsome. Here are some tips for sculpting more natural-looking faces.

  • Focus on the proportions and the large volumes first before diving into the details. Lock down the overall volumes before adding wrinkles, pores, and scars so that you won’t have to redo them later when your sculpt doesn’t look right (see Figure 6-39).

    Mapping out the proportions of the head. Overall, you can view the head as being constructed around the sphere of the cranium, with the face extending forward and downward from it. Here, the proportions of the head are laid out on a grid scaled to one eye-width per unit. Certain important features of the skull, including the cheekbones, eye sockets, and upper jaw, are marked in red.
    Figure 6-39. Mapping out the proportions of the head. Overall, you can view the head as being constructed around the sphere of the cranium, with the face extending forward and downward from it. Here, the proportions of ...

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