Introduction | Going over anatomical references of the skull and neck bones, and explaining the benefits of learning what is “under the hood”

Further examining anatomical references of cartilage, eyes, glands

Adding muscles to the scene, and fat tissue

Building a generic face by laying the skin layer on top of the previously created layers

To get a better understanding of portrait sculpting, one portrait won’t cut it, so we will create a new one.

Retopology of the bust and projecting back the details onto the new topology mesh. Clean topology will enable more efficient detailing, and later posing and expressions.

Final touches and tweaks of the portrait

Polypainting the color map

Sculpting the hair (or fibermesh or xgen)

For this lesson, retopology will have a big impact, as the head will be much easier to pose. Rendering different passes in Zbrush and bringing them into Photoshop for compositing into a final image.