EDW - Sculpture sketch

I created a sketch of how the overall sculpture would look ideally.  I want to have 4 to 5 strawberries arranged in a splash of water that comes out of a surface of water at the bottom (just shown in profile at the top and bottom image).  This is a 180 degree rotation.

I'm going to create the base mesh in Maya then transfer it over to ZBrush to do the details (I think).  I'm thinking it might be more economical to just do the entire water part in Maya, but I want to at least try ZBrush first.  I'm going to go this route so I can learn about importing base meshes into ZBrush, which I'm pretty sure is common practice.

I'll next post what I get out of the base mesh in Maya.



EDIT:  Well, Maya just crashed so I lost that file.  Heh.  So I'll do it again and let you know how it looks again!

EDW - Work in Progress

I forgot to post my progress from Tuesday, so here it is!

And here is the update for how far I got today.  This is the front and the back, and I can't decide if I should smooth the whole thing or not.  I don't like how the smooth looks, but I feel like it should be a lot more smooth than how it is now - it's a little too textured.

I think I'm going to take a break from strawberries once I finish all the dimples and start on the water.  A few people told me about a few ways to do the little seeds, so I'm not too worried about getting that done.

Until next time.  :)

EDW - Back up time

Okay, so I didn't think to post all my reference stuff before my last post, so we're going to go backwards a little bit.
Here are some references for the tasty strawberries (though I'm sure you could have easily googled that):

As for the actual concept of the entire sculpture, here are some shots to give you a good idea of the final product. Several strawberries will be suspended in streams of water I'm going to sculpt in a week or two.

When I get started on the next phase of this class working on a bust figure, I'll post about that project.  For now, you all get strawberries.  :)

Experimental Digital Workshop - WIP

First post!  I worked for a while trying to get the right proportion of the little dips on the surface.  I'm going to start again and basically make the holes about the same, but I'm going to increase the distance between them.  Then I think it'll be good.

The actual process of figuring out ZBrush is going pretty well - starting to get the hang of the interface, which is good.  Hopefully by the end of the weekend I'll have one strawberry done.