FMP: Week 14 Wednesday

On Wednesday, I continued with the new character edits. I masked off areas on the cheeks and used the layer tool to add tufts, then added some extra subtool tufts (using the same curve tool method as before) into the fur as well to break up the silhouette. I stretched out the head more because it looked too flat, and used transpose master to thicken the limbs while maintaining the clothes. For this, I used a combination of the move tool and the transpose scale tool with a gradient mask, alongside the inflate and magnify tools in some areas (like the shoulders and biceps).

After this, I used the form soft tool, the clay buildup tool, smooth and pinch to define the main muscles a little bit more, while still keeping them subtle and simple. I wanted the character to look nonthreatening so I widened the eyes more too.

Originally, I was going to make a different scarf for this character so that it would be more like a neckerchief, but in the end I decided against it because I wasn't sure how much time it would take up in the grand scheme of things, and it wouldn't change the silhouette enough to justify the time spent sculpting it. I also noticed that the longer scarf actually looked better from the side view of this character than the neckerchief would have, because the longer scarf was a nice middle ground in length between the hair tufts and the tail.

To make the character look a little different from the original model, I swapped the bracelet to the other side, but I kept the rest of the clothes the same since they were part of the same tribe. I wanted to keep the style of clothing uniform between them with some colour and pattern variations to break up the similarity.

New proportions

I appended a sphere for the ponytail at the back,
then used the same method as before to create fur tufts around it.

I wanted the ponytail to blend into the fur at the back of the head,
so I added fur tufts using the dam standard brush and pinch tool flowing from the pony tail to the rest of the head.