ZBrush Character Creation - Advanced Digital Sculpting 2nd Edition

■ Painting a Creature Skin 179

3. Select Skin04 from the MatCap Material
   menu. Click the Material menu from the
   main menu and click Modifiers. From the
   rollout options, lower Opacity to around 70
   (Figure 5.31). The skin will suddenly take on
   a much more realistic translucent property
   (Figure 5.32). This is ideal for the next fine-
   tuning steps.

Temperature Adjustment

Now you will want to adjust the color temperature
of certain areas by spraying lighter spatter passes of
warm and cool colors. The previous stage of coating
the head with a pass of the light flesh color both uni-
fied the paint scheme and muted the overall tempera-
ture modulations. Let’s also do some shading with
cool browns to help accentuate the forms of the head.

1. Selecting Red and using the Spray brush,
   add more red to the area around the horns.
   This skin should look ruddy and raw since
   the horns are pressing through the skin. Add
   this red to the tips of the ears to increase the
   warmth of these areas. Spray red into the lip
   and mouth area and the corners of the nostrils
   (Figure 5.33).


2. Switch to RGB 0 128 255 primary blue. Lower the RGB Intensity value to around 9
   and spray over the lips, confining the spray pattern to the lips themselves, trying not
   to overpaint onto the surrounding skin. Take this opportunity to spray blue again into
   the eye sockets and hollows of the ears (Figure 5.34).


3. Switch back to Alpha 01 and a freehand stroke. Turn down the draw size to 5, and
   with blue still selected, create a light veining pattern at the temples. This will help give
   the impression of blood vessels beneath the flesh (Figure 5.35).


4. At this point the paint scheme is ready for contouring. Contouring consists of light
   shading around the major forms to help define them and bring the structure out. Select
   a cool brown, in this case RGB 72 63 53, and lower the RGB Intensity so the color is
   very faint. Select the Spray brush and lightly shade around major forms like the col-
   larbones and scapula (Figure 5.36). Spray this color under the cheekbones and in the
   hollows of the eyes.

Figure 5.33 Ruddiness around ears, nose, and horns

Figure 5.31

Settings for Skin

04 MatCap

material

Figure 5.32 With skin material applied