Our dragon needs a little decoration, something to break up the colors and patterns forming him while still looking appropriate. How about a collar? Since he looks like someone’s pet, this will serve to confirm that association and let us demonstrate a few more techniques in ZBrush too!

The collar part

First, let’s go to the Tool pop-up menu and select a Ring3D tool and draw it on screen, then go into Edit mode. Under Tool.Initialize, set the following values SRadius = 9, Coverage = 360, Scale = 1, Twist = 0, SDivide = 4, Ldivide = 256, and Itwist = 45. Then select Tool.MakePolyMesh3D so we can sculpt it. Use the Transpose Move brush to make the ring a bit taller so that it looks more like a collar. ...

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