Our world has changed. Last month I noticed many Midjourney artworks on social media and artist portfolios. At first I was a skeptic and I was worried about the upcoming future for the artist. What would happen if AI would grow as much to replace us in some tasks? I decided to play with Midjourney last weekend and my approach has changed. I tried to use these graphics generated by AI with my other skills, like digital painting, sculpting, etc. and I had a lot of fun! I loved it!  AI will never replace us 100% I think. I'm going to learn more about tools like this and allow them to increase my growth. Imagination is like a mystic plant inside you. It needs source ideas to grow and contemplate with other creative people or tools like AI. For an artist like me, a digital sculptor, it's an amazing opportunity to increase my ideas, and find new ways to make beautiful artworks. The future will make us amazed.  

Check my portfolio Photobash section for more screens and explainin how I mixed AI generated graphics with digital painting and digital assets. 

After a long break, I decided to go back to my sketches on ZBrush. I would like to share a new one that I have created in the last days. I am doing a new series of streams on Instagram and YouTube so if you want to follow me check out the links!

Trailer on Instagram

Full VLOG on YouTube

I added a new WIP file that will contain all the experimental own projects I'm working on. At this moment you can watch Harry's project and a few assets that consist of it. Project in progress. Check for more under the link

Another speed sketch/sculpt. 2h sculpting, 1h shading/lighting/rendering

Hello. My last anatomy studies on newborn human. I did it in 3hours and 1hour for render.

I have watched "Developer Stream: Zbrush 2020 in action - Paul Gaboury" The day off so there was a chance to practice concept modeling. In the comment I'm posting you a fragment of film Movie Magic. When I was a kid, I watched this and I dreamed of being able to make such models myself.

Hi! My last speed sculpture I did for Inktober 2019. I know that it's too late :D but I'm going finish whole session sooner or later. Main body was remixed from SculptJanuary 2019. Under link you can watch making of.

  Main pose comes from another artwork I did on begining of year. Check making off

INKTOBER 2019. Once again I'm taking the challenge. The Dawn will come on 1th November.

find my speed sculptures on Instagram

Hi folks! It's time to finish my works on hair and skin. I'm going to start texturing and shading other parts but at least let's look at one closeup. You must be aware that I sculpted whole skin and scales from custom alphas that I created based on micropores sculpts. Today it's good to use comercial XYZ Textures which gives you amazing results. 

Different Lighting Conditions
  

Hello friends! It's time to show you my shader for hoar hairs. How it works? 

SHADER. I used two different states (colors) for my hair and pluged their into switch. The switch is controlled by ID hair attribute parametr from Yeti. IDUserData reading Yeti attribute and it is controlled in aiRange using custom map painted in MARI. Interesting point is melanine. I added a little melanine in shader to have more natural effect and it's masked by second switch because I don't need blonde hairs on my white hairs. 

What now? I rendered it on my workstation until 13 min. per frame and I'm going to make turntable to check if it looks correctly in every side. On next steps I need to render whole parts: skin, eyes, hairs in different lighting conditions and back to texturing clothes of my character. 

Test render on mid settings of Arnold in 13 min. 

This is raw color for my hairs. 

This one is with melanine mask and using aiStandardHair