■ The Brush Menu 45by using smaller and smaller rakes until the whole surface is smoothed. In Figure 2.16, I
started the ogre bust with basic planes using rake strokes; as I work the surface, the rakes
become smaller and the surface finer.
The procedure for working with rakes is to crosshatch across the form you are trying
to refine, using smaller draw sizes with each pass. Figure 2.17 shows how this is done in
water-based clay. With a combination of crosshatching and stroking along the direction of
the form, you can attain a pleasing surface and easy transitions between forms.
Figure 2.17 Close-up of rake strokes in water-based clay on the left and ZBrush on the right
Typically, forms are built up with any combination of the Claytubes, Standard, and
Inflate brushes and then raked down into more specific forms with the Rake tool (Figure 2.18).
This may be a difficult concept to fully grasp without seeing it in action. To see rakes in use,
watch the video files included on the DVD for this chapter.
Figure 2.15 Real-world rakes Figure 2.16 The ogre on the left consists of the basic
forms with prominent rake marks; the right image shows
the ogre bust after the rakes have been refined and the
surface detailed.