Sculpting - Blender Master Class: A Hands-on Guide to Modeling, Sculpting, Materials, and Rendering - page 83

Figure 6-24: Restricting the
visible area to a small selec-
tion, using the shortcut alt -B
and dragging a rectangle
around the area you want to
remain visible

Sculpting the Wings
Next I moved on to sculpting the wings (see
Figure 6-25). The wings required less work, as the
basic shape was closer to the final look I wanted.
I began by using the Inflate brush to add some
volume to the wing bones, and then I added some
bony landmarks. Next, I refined the planes of the
bones and gave them clear boundaries with the
Inflate, Crease, Flatten, and Clay brushes. The
Crease Lazy brush that we made earlier comes in
handy for working on the outlines of the bones and
adding ridges to the wing structure.

Clay/
Clay Tubes
for midlevel
details

added volume
with Inflate

spikes
using Grab

Flatten
and
Smooth

Grab to
adjust shape

Crease
brush

Basic Details
While I wasn't planning to finalize the fine details
covering the Bat's body until retopology, I still
needed to add the main features of the head:
the eyes, nostrils, mouth, and details of the ears.
Returning to the body, I began to add these details.
The Crease brush is an excellent way to draw in the
outlines of these details—such as the valley between
the lips and the creases of the brows and around the
nose—before using the Clay brushes to build up the
basic forms and the Flatten and Polish brushes to
refine them (see Figure 6-26). Later, these would be
retopologized and resculpted, so I left them pretty
rough for time being, just doing enough to indicate
the general shape.

Pinch to
lighten edges

Figure 6-25: The wings were sculpted in the same way as
the body. Because the initial base mesh was more defined to
begin with, this process was simpler than it was for the body.

Sculpting Around the Eyes
Eyes can be tricky to sculpt because you need to fol-
low the underlying shape of the eyeball while adding
the details of the eyelids and such. To make things
easier, first add a new sphere object as a placeholder