Chapter 7

Advanced Brush Techniques

The secret to creating fantastic models in ZBrush lies in the power to customize the sculpting brushes. Up to this point, the exercises in this book have primarily focused on different ways to generate general forms and the sculpting techniques have been fairly basic. In this chapter, you’ll switch into high gear as you learn how to detail your models using the sculpting brushes.

The ZBrush 4 interface has been upgraded so that artists now have access to many of the brush controls that were hidden in previous versions. Once you gain an understanding of how the various controls can be used to customize the brush presets, you’ll see that you can design a brush so that it can do just about anything you want. ...

Get Introducing ZBrush® 4 now with the O’Reilly learning platform.

O’Reilly members experience books, live events, courses curated by job role, and more from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers.