ZBrush Character Creation - Advanced Digital Sculpting 2nd Edition

178 chapter 5 ■ Texture Painting

Base Color Washes

At this stage you want to unify the colors from the pre-

vious steps with a light coating of the base color. This

is called a wash, after a traditional painting technique

where a color is diluted to make it more transparent.

This is also a good point to change to a MatCap skin

material. We didn’t use a skin material before now so

we could get a clearer picture of the primary colors and

their intensity as we painted. We may now more easily

judge the overall effect with a translucent material.

1. Select the Spatter brush. Select the base color
   again. There should be an area on the head
   with the base color exposed. The easiest way
   to select it again is to click and drag from the
   active color box to a point on the model. The
   current color will be sampled from this point.


2. Spray this base color over the character with
   a low opacity and RGB intensity of about 10
   (Figure 5.30).

Figure 5.30 Skin mist in close-up comp. Notice how the specks and noodles become more under-

stated under the light base coat.

Figure 5.29 The mottling pass