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- We're going to begin sculpting our first head

by blocking in key proportions.

And this step is important because if the foundation

is incorrect, then everything we do afterwards

is going to be incorrect as well.

And this formulaic approach is designed to take you

step-by-step so that you can get as close as possible

to correct proportions, as systematically as possible.

And so we're going to begin in a default blender scene

with the default cube.

First, I will select our camera and lamp and delete them,

select our cube and we'll go ahead and rename this

head sculpt.

And right away, I want to hit control and five

on the number row above your letter keys.

And this will add in our modifier panel,

a subdivision service modifier with five levels

of subdivision.

In other words, we take a blocky cube

and make it a very smooth spherical shape.

And now I want to apply the subdivision surface,

tab into edit mode, and then I will hit my space bar key,

which brings up the search function,

which I should say that I change that by default.

If we go to our preferences under key map,

I like to make my space bar the search function.

And when I hit space bar,

I'm gonna type sphere

and we find this two sphere transform operator.

And when I press that, we can scroll left and right

with our mouse and you'll see that the shape

ever so slightly transforms into a perfect sphere.

I can also hit the one key on the number pad

and now we've got a perfect sphere.

The only other thing I want to do is,

from the front view, in order for the formula to work,

I want it to correspond to the grid,

specifically one blender unit in each direction.

So this is one blender unit,

and I want to incorporate the other axis as well.

And the way you can tell this is, this particular grid level

has a slight boldness to its line,

so you should be able to see it showing up here.

I'm gonna tab into edit mode and scale up

just to about there.

Now our sphere fits within the blender units.

The size, if we look at our item in the end panel,

your dimensions should be really close to two meters

in each axis.

Now, with that setup,

we are ready to begin sculpting with our object selected.

I'll switch to sculpt mode, and I like to use a matte cap,

and then I'm gonna drag my brush panel out a little bit,

so that we have the two rows.

And first we're going to click our annotate tool.

We're gonna be using this to outline mile markers

along the way.

But I want this to be in reference to the surface

of our object.

And now if I click hold, control and pull down,

we'll make a straight line down the center.

That's a little bit off, but you know,

we just are ball parking it at this point.

Same thing on the side, we'll go horizontally.

So we have put a cross hair in the middle of our sphere.

Let's go ahead and change the color to be a little more

noticeable, like a bright yellow.

And then from here, I'm going to switch to my pen

and tablet.

And I'm going to split the right half into thirds.

So one line, two lines, makes an equal third.

Again, I'm doing this with my eye,

I am not doing it perfectly,

but it's going to get us very close.

And on that second line that we made,

I'm going to draw a vertical line right down the middle

of that, or as close as possible, there we go.

From here I'm going to use my B box select, keep in mind,

we have the X mirror enabled by default.

So B box select up until that line.

And it's going to duplicate the mask to the other side,

control I, to invert.

And I want to scale this side flat.

So we'll use our transform tool and I want to adjust where

the pivot is set.

So if we go to our sculpt menu,

set pivot to unmasked should be fine.

And we'll scale that horizontally, almost completely flat,

I like to leave a little bit of roundness there.

And then we'll pull that flat along the line that we drew.

Alt M to clear the mask.

Let's go to the left side by hitting three on the number pad

and let's draw more lines doing the same thing,

woops, vertically,

horizontally.

And from the side view, we're going to keep referencing

the grid.

So let me create a new annotation layer.

In the n panel under annotations hit the plus mark.

And the grid that I'm talking about, is this square here.

And then draw another one below it,

I keep accidentally erasing.

And I'm going to subdivide this in half

and then the upper part in half again.

I'm going to bring this quadrant of our sphere down

to represent the chin or the chin and jaw shelf.

And before I bring that down,

let's move to the grab brush with the G hot key.

And I want to make this brush pretty big,

a little bit bigger than the quadrant.

Once I have that properly sized,

I'm going to put the cursor as close to the edge

of our sphere and bring it down.

Essentially, I'm going to make this a corner.

So it looks like my brush was not quite big enough,

let's make it even bigger and try it again.

Just trying to bring this down into a rounded,

but more squared off corner.

All right, that's going to represent the chin,

at least the initial shape of the chin from the front.

It might be a little too pointed.

So let's round that out slightly.

Just give it a little bit more volume.

And now from the side view,

we're ready to bring this down into the jaw.

So with the b box select, going to select this quadrant

and then hit A to bring up our mask pie menu

and choose smooth mask and I'll hit shift R to repeat that

one more time.

Control I to invert, back to our transform,

and we will bring that down so that the chin and jaw

rest right about that quarter marking of the bottom square.

And from here, we're ready to pull out a neck shape.

So I'm going to hit alt M again to clear the mask.

Let's grab our straight line annotate tool.

And first I'm going to draw a line on this backside,

bottom quadrant from corner to corner, just like this,

and then go back to our annotate and split this line

into thirds, one, two okay.

So now where this line intersects with our jaw

and then this diagonal intersects with the back of the head,

we're going to paint a mask in between those two spots.

So switch to the mask brush,

keep in mind that the line annotate tool does not stick

to the surface of our sculpture.

So you can either erase that and draw it by hand.

You know, we're okay just getting close,

we don't have to be laser precise.

And now I've got markings that I can clearly paint out.

Let's hide that other annotate layer.

And now I can clearly paint an oval shape on the bottom

with the mask brush.

All right, we're gonna get really close to the side

of the head and it's okay to make the backside a little bit

flatter and the front side a little more elongated.

There we go, that's gonna be fine.

Control I to invert, hit three on the number pad to go

back to the side view and we can use our transform tool

once again, to bring this down.

Now, my point of reference for how far to bring this down,

is the bottom corner of this chunk to line up

to the bottom corner of the grid quadrant,

so right about here.

And then with my grab brush, we can flatten the bottom

by bringing that front side up

and then smoothing, holding shift and smoothing the bottom.

And at this point, it's a good idea to go ahead and remesh.

So with our remesh settings voxel size,

I'm gonna go to .03 and hit control R

and that will remove our mask and provide us with

more uniform geometry.

And I'm just smoothing that out with holding control.

I'm sorry, holding shift.

And then from the front view,

maybe bring out the bottom of this neck structure,

so it's a little more even, how does it look from the side?

Maybe bring that forward to closer match our reference line.

Here we go.

And now holding shift, control, left click and drag,

we're going to create a marquee selection,

where this blue line intersects our silhouette.

So shift, control, left click and drag.

It's going to be kind of a rounded shape,

until I select about halfway up in this grid quadrant.

Okay, so we're talking about this intersection

and then about halfway through here.

All right, control I to invert, hit the A pie menu,

smooth the mask, shift R to do that, a couple times.

And now with our transform,

we can look at the front and I'm first going to scale out,

so the N's at this quadrant here, on each side,

and then I'm going to bring it down,

so that the corner ends up right there at the corner

of those grid units.

All right, so with our transform selected,

let's make sure that our set pivot is at the origin.

So it's directly in the center of our object.

We will scale horizontally in X

then move it down.

And then from the side, we should also have to scale it

a little bit in Y, to about there.

Alt M to clear the mask,

let's turn off our annotations,

switch to a different brush,

so you can get an idea of what the proportions look like

so far.

And this is stage one of the block-out,

In the next lesson, we'll look at stage two.