Sculpting - Blender Master Class: A Hands-on Guide to Modeling, Sculpting, Materials, and Rendering - page 70

Rake
Like the Clay Tubes brush, the Rake brush (see
Figure 6-7) is based on traditional sculpting. Clay
sculptors often use a toothed scraping tool, a rake , to
scrape away at the clay surface to produce a fine tex-
ture and smooth forms. In Blender, the Rake brush
is great in both Additive and Subtractive modes.
Like the Clay Tubes brush, the Rake brush
starts out by duplicating the default Clay brush and
then adding a custom alpha, though this time we
use a line of blurred dots or squares, as shown in
Figure 6-7. To create the Rake brush, take the fol-
lowing steps:

1. Duplicate the Clay brush as you did for the Clay

Tubes brush above.

2. Add a texture to the brush, as you did for the

Clay Tubes brush. See Figure 6-7 for the kind
of texture needed.

3. Set the angle to (surprise!) Rake , and enable

Autosmooth in the Brush panel of the 3D
Viewport Tool Shelf, setting its value to about
0.25 . (This adds some smoothing to the brush-
strokes to keep the texture from getting out of
control.)

4. Set the falloff of the brush to flat (Figure 6-7).

Figure 6-6: Adding the Clay Tubes texture

Figure 6-7: The Rake brush