Back up your camera every now and then and make sure everything is to your liking. Start by refining the larger forms before creating the smaller shapes and constantly check the silhouette. This makes it very tempting to add a few subdivisions and start sculpting small details right away, but small details make it more of a challenge to fix larger problems.

ZApp Link will let you use any brush in Photoshop in your Zbrush painting.ZBrush can handle an incredible number of polygons with ease. The Stroke > Curve > Curve Mode function can be combined with Curve Modifiers > Size to make very deliberate, tapering strokes.įinally, remember that you can paint with the 2.5d brushes or image editor brushes directly onto a mesh or an applied texture, although this limits you to working on fixed “views” of the mesh rather than being to rotate the model and paint in real time. It may be that you simply need more smoothing to get a good clean taper. Try both approaches to see what works best for the situation. Increasing this will produce a more deliberate stroke. Reducing The Lazy Radius produces a stroke more responsive to the artist’s hand. Reducing the Lazy Steps produces a less broken stroke. For particularly delicate strokes, it can sometimes be useful to disable this. In most cases it is more beneficial than not.

It trades a degree of responsiveness for smoother strokes. Lazy Mouse (L) is enabled by default on many brushes. You may find it useful to reduce or eliminate the Z-intensity or color sensitivity to keep it from keep a stroke from fading rather than tapering. Moving the focal shift slider on the curve to something in the 70s produces good results for me. I get the best results improving taper by adjusting the pressure curve for an individual brush in Brush> Tablet Pressure. You may need a stiffer pressure to improve stroke taper. For many tablets, it can be adjusted at the tablet level as well for a particular program. Pressure/size sensitivity can be adjusted in Preferences > Tablet. Tips on pressure sensitivity-click to read

Lazy Mouse settings, pressure sensitivity settings, and tablet specs will all play a role. At the end of the day, though, the 3d sculpting brushes are a different animal from the 2.5d brushes, or the 2d brushes in a paint program. Hi will depend upon the selected brush (they all behave differently) and the selected alpha.

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