Blocking Out - Blender Character Sculpt Tutorial part 1

if anybody's experiencing weird mirroring problems at 12:38 with the legs not aligning to the reference, you can fix this by applying all transforms by clicking on "Object" at the top in Object mode window, clicking "apply" then clicking "all transforms" after. then you can add the mirror modifier without giving our elfish woman detached legs!

I'm a student studying 3D art and had been told not to try going into character modelling and to focus on environment art because it was just too complicated and there was too much competition. When I showed the same teacher my second model after following this tutorial series, he looked shocked, told me I should try to pursue character modelling for my final portfolio project, and took a picture of the tutorial on his phone so he could watch it and share it with other students later. That's how good this tutorial is

The issue I have with a lot of tutorials here on youtube is that they do not repeat their process and hotkeys as they work. I don't blame them, it's second nature for them to know what to press and a lot of it seems like common sense to an experienced modeler. However for people who are new, not knowing even one of the hotkeys can send them in a spiral of trying to find it online or figure it out on their own and this can take up a lot of our time. I LOVE this tutorial because you repeat everything you do and you explain the basics instead of assuming we know everything! Thank you so much for the help. :)

I'm only half way through this and I can already tell you, this is THE best of the obscenely large amount of tutorials I've come across on YouTube. The most beneficial 30 minutes I've spent in a long time.

finally a tutorial that moves at a good pace and doesn't talk about random to pad out the time. Thank you kind sir

Today I learned women are made of cubes.

Months of struggling, solved in 30 minutes. Your an art saver ✨

I think i cracked why this video is so liked. This dude just took sculpting and engineered the hell out of it. First video ive seen where dude starts shaping and not seemlessly making a face shape out of sculpting mode. No artistic decisions. Place cube, extrude, shape, keep going. This is gold.

This process for building character models has been what I'm missing when it comes to modeling and work flow. This's already much more fun and enjoyable to work with than how I use to make character models. Fantastic tutorial to follow along with and build. I'm off to part 2

I have never sat through a sculpting tutorial before, and I am losing my mind becusse not even 1/4 of the way through, I realized i can actually do this. This is what i needed for sure. I sat through the entire thing, and I will go back and watch it again while i go along with the tutorial and do it myself. God, thank you so much man.

For anyone thats struggling with mirroring you have to right click on the object, ->set origin and select origin to 3D cursor. You have to make sure your character is at the center

Using Blender 3.41 If anyone is experiencing the issue where you turn off "Optimal Display" and you still can't see the mesh you need to go to Edit- Preferences-Viewport-Subdivision and make sure GPU subdivision is checked. Then you should be able to proceed as normal and see the reference image through your mesh. :)

finally, a tutorial from you with the whole process. thank you so much ❤❤

This tutorial came out at the perfect time as I am just getting over my basics of drawing and realized I might want to try to make 3D characters again since I tried once and it went...really poorly. So I genuinely feel like this is just a sign from someone to get back into sculpting and blender! Thank you so much Bran <3

Honestly this is what I needed to get myself back into it, since I've been kind of out of the game for a while now.

ive been learning blender and i feel like im stuck in a stage where im not a beginner but i also dont know enough to be able to create my own stuff and its so difficult finding tutorials that help me out with this but yours is so perfect! im only five minutes in and havetn even opened blender yet but i know im going to love this :D

It’s honestly crazy how much better online resources are than actual courses in colleges n stuff, this is amazing. I’m taking a course and by no means is my teacher particularly bad but I already had a preference towards 2D art and my teacher only made 3D look so much more impossible for me. You however made me feel like I could have a blank character model in under an hour and understand the tools I’m using to some extent 🙏

I started learning blender back in February and have watched a dozen tutorials and this is probably the best one. Love the steady pace of everything. It was easy to follow and I really learned a lot. Thanks! On to the next!

I am a fool who wishes to learn a new skillset, these videos will hopefully be a very informative resource to help prevent me from breaking down, crying, and quitting something I've been interested in for a while before I've even given myself the chance to properly learn how to do it.

This series appeared in my recommendations at the perfect time as I have been wanting to learn how to sculpt for ages but didn't know where to look. I've greatly enjoyed following along so far with my own designs and can't wait to see the rest of it!