Sculpting with Blender For Beginners (Tutorial)
Welcome to my Blender Beginner Sculpting Tutorial! In this tutorial, you will learn all the basic tools and features you will need to know, to get started with sculpting in Blender.
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THIS IS THE BEST tutorial EVER!!!!!!!!!
@@bl0kh787 Thanks!
Suggestion: Hill scene from the Nightmare Before Christmas (just for Halloween)
@@finn_hughmehh10 Oh, sorry, for some reason I didn't see this comment.
Dude.... How is it mirroring your strokes? How do I turn that on? 😀 edit: wait.... you have a video on that. Found it. 🙂
As a left handed person it's really nice to watch a tutorial of someone who's also left handed
Thanks!
I was so happy to see he was left handed!!!!
Thanks, lol
Yea, same!
Yes. It’s a big struggle for us left handed people.
For any newbies like me wondering how he got it to come out both sides (12:00) - You have to enable symmetry. It's in the top right corner; the XYZ next to the butterfly-looking symbol
Yes. Thanks!!
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@@RyanKingArt i was watching this for 15 min from 3 to 5 min and cant find this :>
Thousands of thanks for this. It was driving me crazy!!
Thank you!
9:22 Brushes 12:34 Shortcut Keys for Brushes 13:23 Hold Shift to Smooth 13:53 Radius + Strength 14:29 F Key- Brush Shape Change 14:40 Shift + F - Change Strength of Brush 15:00 Matcaps / Change color of your sculpt 18:55 Mask Brush 20:01 Remeshing 22:30 Dyntopo 25:44 Decimate Optimizing Mesh 27:56 Scaling Mesh 29:00 First Sculpts - Current Sculpts 30:00 Tips to get better at sculpting faster How to do a quick texture paint of your sculpt - kzhead.info/sun/Z7ySmNaDfKuZlI0/bejne.html
Cool! Thanks!
@@RyanKingArt Oh whoah, I wasn't expecting you to reply! Thanks for the tutorial! Truthfully I know I'll be coming back to your video often for help, so I wanted to make a lil timestamp list to organize it :D Thanks again!
@@cryppi1510 I try to reply to every comment. Thanks for watching! : )
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8:39 for brushes
I avoided Blender for years cause I was scared about all the things to learn. I've tried so many tutorials and none of them could get me into it. Then I've found your video. You are crazy talented with teaching. Everything is clear, pertinent, easy to get and at the end of this evening I sculpted my very first head. I am impressed, really. Definitely subscribed and so grateful that this time KZhead advised me the right video.
Thank you so much for the kind words! I'm glad my tutorial helped you!
Hope this is true lol
@@Editsbyclips I hope the video is helpful!
I want to be able to sculpt a Dutch angel dragon head for my friend and I can’t find any tutorials for it asndhej
@@30ratsstackedinatrenchcoat91 You could do a tutorial on how to sculpt a dragon head, and then change it and make it how you'd like it to look. Here is a great tutorial: kzhead.info/sun/frOMlLacnIVrooU/bejne.html
Plot twist : His face in the thumbnail is also sculpted
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This actually really made me feel more comfortable with trying to do blender. This is more about drawing in a 3D space than the first tutorial I watched on it which was all numbers and really confusing. So thank you for making me feel like maybe I can do this too.
Glad it was helpful!
the first face sculpt you made is top-tier meme quality
Lol Thanks!
Just began sculpting and I already have fallen in love. Now that I understand basic topology, this is just an amazing tool that allows my ideas to come to life. Thank you, Ryan.
Thanks! Sculpting is very fun!!
You have a real talent for this. You're filling a niche between the tutorials that assume you need to learn how to use a mouse (ugh) and the ones that assume you're practically an expert already. Much needed. Thank you!
Thanks!
Him: explains first steps. Me: Uses mouse.
Lol. Hopefully you will be able to get a Drawing tablet sometime. It really helps.
@@RyanKingArt haha yes, I would but sadly I am a very lazy person
this killed me hahaha
Just lower your dpi to around 400 or 800 , this gives you much more freedom to move it accurately. if you find a sweet spot, it can even be better than a drawing tablet.
@@mrpuffin9788 hence a tablet :D
This is legit the best totorial I have ever watched. It's so clear that I wasn't left with any questions and feel confident to actually TRY to model something.
Cool! Glad it helped!!
Showing your first pieces of art was good encouragement. I've seen a lot of people quit right off the bat with bad results, i wish more people would do this in tutorials. Amazing work!
Thanks so much! Yeah, I remember when I first started sculpting. None of the other people making sculpting tutorials showed how bad there first sculpts were. So I wanted to show mine, to help encourage people.
Thats me its literalyl impossible i cant remove anything without it looking like fish scales and its so annoying to control #
This is EXACTLY the kind of tutorial I was hunting for! Sooo helpful in just clearing things up so I have a jumping off point. Thank you so much for putting this out there!
Glad it was helpful!
I watched this video while I messed around in blender for the first time and your tutorial was very helpful!! I actually started to really understand the program a lot faster than I thought I would by skipping around to certain parts of your video! I'm definitely going to watch more of your blender tutorials in the future.
Cool! Glad it was helpful!
This is by far, the best simple, short tutorial for sculpting that I've seen and I've been looking for a decent one for a few years.
Thanks for watching!
This is one of the most cohesive and easy to understand tutorial videos about anything I've ever seen online. You could know nothing and still watch and understand this without an effort. Thank you for this great content, I will be checking more of your videos.
Glad you like it! Thanks for watching!
This video was so helpful! It cleared up a lot of things that weren't really addressed in any of the other sculpting tutorials I watched. Thank you for explaining everything so patiently! The way you took your time, showed your setup and gave a bunch of extra tips at the end made it feel like one of my friends was explaining it to me :))
Thank you for watching!
I'm gonna watch this tutorial probably a ton of times but you provided solutions to my problems and omg, I love it, I feel like I learned something. Thank you so much!
Glad it was helpful!
coming into this video i genuinely believed it was going to be lacklustre at best but after sitting through and writing down all the points you were making im so glad i rode it out and paid attention to what you were saying; youre clear, articulate and easy to listen to. Thank you for all the advice you gave genuinely appreciate it.
glad you like the tutorial!
I hadnt touched blender since around 2011-2012 for school, this was the exact refresher I needed to relearn sculpting. Man, Blender has changed quite a bit since then!
Lol, yes it has! Blender is awesome! I didn't even know blender existed until 2013, and I only started really learning it in 2016.
Thank you for this video. So happy to have found it. All of my modeling attempts before this were just me pulling on vertices and faces with my mouse. I have a drawing tablet that I use for taking notes, so I plugged it in right after this video and gave it a try. I made the most realistic face that I've ever created. I used to enjoy art in HS, but I stopped trying to make art after graduating... this experience really satisfied a creative itch for me and I'm really thankful that you brought that to me.
Glad to help! Thanks Shawn!
Great tutorial! I'm just getting into digital sculpting. I used to draw characters a lot so the anatomy part is coming back to me quickly. The way you went through each brush and most of the features was very helpful! Straight to the point and nicely communicated. Thanks.
Thanks alot! Glad you enjoyed the tutorial!
An incredibly helpful tutorial! I especially appreciate you showing your first sculpts to show how much you've improved.
glad it was helpful!
Thanks a lot, Ryan. I have learnt a lot just watching and listening to you. Blender is the the first sculpting software I have ever used. I am at the very beginning stage with blender. I don't know if there will be a future for me in this sector, but right now I'm learning this skill for the fun of it. Thank you for your clear and explicative teaching skill.
You're very welcome! Thank you for watching!
I am having tons of trouble with sculpting and every tutorial is just about brushes. This is the first time I have watched something where he talks about it still being hard to get used to and the artistic side of it. I am glad I found something that actually brought this up because I was beginning to think I will just never be any good at this but I want to because it's how I can improve my models
Hope my video was helpful. Thank you for watching!
This is really great, clear explanation and the fundamental tools of Blender sculpting. Kamvas 20 arrived yesterday and now learning my way around the interface. Thanks for the insight and guidance.
Great to hear that! Thanks for watching!
So many tutorial vids fail at clearly explaining how to handle sculpting, specially remesh and dyntopo, but you really helped out with that...thank you so much, this is invaluable info!
Glad it helped!
Thank you! I went from being super frustrated to finding this and learning EXACTLY what I needed to know to do anything with sculpting in Blender. You rock. Also, good advice to new sculptors near the end : 3 and your own sculpts looks like they've improved a lot. Keep up the good work, man o/
Thank you for watching! Glad it helped
your explanation is so easy to understand that i don't feel frustated at all! thanks!
So glad to hear that! Thanks for watching.
This is by far the best tutorial I've watched so far. Thank you so much for the detailed demo!
Glad you enjoyed it. Thanks for watching!
I have had blender on my computer for a long while now. I have looked up other tutorials and have just not been able to get a good understanding on this program. Thank you. Finally, I am finally able to start shaping something with these shortcut keys, move the shape around with my pen, And finally know how to use the tools. Thank you so much. It seems harder to get the tiny fine details I want, but I'm at least getting somewhere now.
glad it helped! thanks for watching!
I might be late to the party here, but this is probably the best beginner tutorial on sculpting I've seen. The simple fact that this tutorial focuses on the technical side of sculpting and actually shows the tools that are neccessary to get started is incredibly helpful. For some reason, so many tutorials on sculpting only tell us what we're supposed to be doing, without actually telling us how to do it (the old "draw the rest of the owl" problem). Now that you've shown the tools to get started, I can finally follow the tutorials that focus on the artistic process behind sculpting and learn that. Great tutorial to get started!
Thanks so much! I'm glad it helped.
Thank you! I bought a drawing tablet with a lot of hope to get good on this. I am actually a good graphite artist, I make a ton of graphite portrait on paper, but sculpting on a 3D software will be certainly more challenging! Thanks for this very clear tutorial, I will watch it more than once
Cool! Hope you find the tutorial helpful. I also love to draw traditionally! Although, I really should practice more to improve my drawing skills. : )
Thank you, this helped me a lot in getting started with Blender. Artistic sculpting is my primary interest right now, not all the other features of Blender.
Thank you for watching!
I keep coming back to this tutorial when I have a break from Blender. Brilliantly explained, covers things quickly and really helpful description of workflow. Many thanks!!
thanks for watching!
As someone on the verge of throwing the computer out of the window by being unable to figure out Blender sculpting properly, thank you so much!! Specially as I tend to go "ugh" with 30+ minute videos and skip a lot, since many people aren't able to find a good pace for their tutorials, not repeating themselves a lot, but giving information at an understandable speed. I didn't really feel the need to move forward on the explanations, so that's a great sign!
Glad the video helped. Thanks for watching!
Thank you for this! After so many months of procrastination I can finally do it, all it takes is one good video, keep it up (:
Thank you!
omg, this tutorial REALLY helped me to understand a lot about it, like, you can't learn things like that in few days, and it helped me to understand that it takes a lot of time. Thank you so much, i'll keep practicing!
Glad the video helped you. Yes, keep on practicing!
This guy explained it all in a very calm and detailed manner and also did not wasted anytime talking stupid stuff explained the keys in a very informative way with clear and optimum voice !!! Thanks Bro
Glad you liked it!
@@RyanKingArt Thanks for the help man !!! 🥰
Love your honesty! not common nowadays somebody showing his early works. Thumbs UP!
Yeah, thanks! When I was first learning Sculpting, I was pretty discouraged at how bad my sculpts were. And I saw other artists online that were so much better then me. So now that I am sort of decent-ish at sculpting, I wanted to show beginners that everyone starts out bad. But if you keep it up you will improve. Hopefully it will encourage people to keep practicing.
Gotta say, my next sculp after this video, was like 10x better than everything else i've ever made. Definitely going to like and come back to this later to see anything i may have missed.
Awesome! Thanks!
One of the best tuts I've seen in a long while. Congratulations on making a difficult subject understandable.
Thanks!
I finally found great sculpting tutorial for Blender. I'm not native speaker, so I hardly understand what other's saying, but this is clear and mainly, he doesn't talk any useless information (like, I really doesn't care that someone's having hard times with their partner). THANKS
Hope the video is helpful! Thanks for watching!
Seriously you are good ! the video is very clear, well done. I just start using blender so that was very useful for me. thanks
Glad it helped you out! Thanks for watching.
@bubibej I don't understand what you mean. Sorry. I used Google Translate, and it said: eee Can you in Polish?
This is an awesome tutorial, very well paced, easy to follow directions, very detailed but not overwhelming. He showed so much info butte it was not tiring at all. I liked how he showed the key points, the most important things to remember, without worrying about all the non-essential things which one can discover on their own once they get the ball rolling. nd this is just exactly what this tutorial does.. get rid of the fat and gets right to the meat! Great tutorial.. therefore I subscribed! :))
Thanks Creative Studio! I appreciate the nice comment. And thanks for Subscribing!! : )
This makes a lot of things way clearer for me. Probably won't get started until I find a drawing tablet, but now I know where to begin. Future me thanks you profusely.
Glad it was helpful. Thanks for watching!
@Will Swift I have links in the description to the tablets that I recommend.
PROPS, Ryan, thank you so much for this tutorial! I'm finally trying to come to grips with Blender's sculpting features.
Glad the tutorial was helpful!
Thanks a lot for the tutorial, they are really helpful for beginners, especially those re-meshing tips
You're very welcome!
Great video and even better teaching skills! Thank you so much! Now I am no longer afraid to get into it!
Thanks for watching!
Hey haven't even got through half of your vid and you have shown me twice the information I have gotten from longer vids. Thank you! So far you have had the best content.
glad its helpful!!
Mate this is the best tutorial I've ever seen. Just a straight blast of all the information I needed. Thank you so much 👍🏻
Glad it helped!
hey ryan! thank you, this was very useful to remember all the things, now i am ready to start again with my wacom (i practiced sculpting a little while ago, but with my mouse) ..and i saw your wallace and gromit render on blenderartists, like it very much!
Thanks alot!
This was fantastic... all I needed in one video. Thank you so much for making this.
You're welcome! 😀
i'm new to sculpting with blender and this tutorial is very intuitive. thank you so much for this!!!
Thank you for watching!
This video is so great! As a long time Blender user, but total newbie to sculpting, you hit everything I was wondering about. Great organization of all the content. Thank you!!
Glad it was helpful!
Absolutely EXCELLENT tutorial. Familiar with Mudbox - this was exactly what I was hoping to find. Thanks!
Glad you like it. Thanks for watching!
Amazing tutorial bro. I'm just getting into sculpting and this was very informative. I'm looking forward to getting more sculpting done.
Thanks!
@@RyanKingArt Did my first ever sculpt in Blender after watching your video. No reference (I know, I know) but here it is - www.artstation.com/jalizscanlanproductions
This is the best tutorial I have ever witnessed in my life. Well done! Seriously
glad you like it!
Very helpful. This answered a lot of questions I didn't even know how to ask (like remeshing and adding vertices). Thanks so much!
Glad it was helpful! thanks for watching!
thank you so much!!! i was really scared of using blender after opening it and seeing the interface that can appear super intimidating for a beginner, this tutorial helped a lot
Glad it helped! Thanks for watching. 🙂
@@RyanKingArt of course! new sub from me 😊
@@babynissan Thanks!
14:30 just a quick tip, if we use F key to change brush size then normally we have to LMB to confirm. We can also customize it in the preference (keymap) by turning on 'confirm on release' so we don't need to LMB to confirm , just HOLD the F key and release it after we change the brush.
This is the best introduction I have ever seen for sculpting.
Thanks so much!
Man really nice tuto, exactly what I was looking for ! It is very straight forward and condensed, lots of info in a short time. Well done !
Thanks! Glad it was helpful.
The best beginner tutorial about sculpting I've been seeing till now. Basing on those other tutorials I got feeling like sculpting was something unbelievably complex but now it seems as even me, who's like total noob and makes it just as hobby, could try it out :) I've got cheap tablet which I bought some time ago for my child and which is getting covered by dust so will give it a try :) (GAOMON S620 6.5 x 4 Inches) Special thank you for those examples of your first works! It really adds some courage to try it :) Also your tutorials are full of useful hints which accelerates learning speed. Thank you!
Glad its helpful. Thank you for watching!
i wasnt expecting such a good tutorial, thank you!
Glad you liked it!
this was a super helpful tutorial thank you. just got a 3d printer so looking to sculpt some stuff to print thank you.
Holy cow, you are super good at teaching! This taught me so much! I got excited with the new stuff I learned XD
Thanks!
Love your content with blender.
Thank you!
Thanks for the tablet info! I just made my purchase now and now I’m in the process of learning the program further
Cool!
3 years later, still very useful! Thanks bro! I've been using blender for a bit and had most of this stuff figured out, but i still learned a lot!
thanks for watching!
Hey! This is exactly what I needed! Thank You so much! I´m pretty new to this, but You make me feel like coming home! In some weird way. Thanks! :)
Welcome!
You may not be the best artist (yet), but you sure are a very good teacher! Thank you for that superb tutorial. :)
Thanks : )
This tutorial is useful for people who don't really need artistic lessons but want to learn how to use the program. Thanks!
Thanks
Just what I was looking for. An overview with the real practical basics. Thanks!
Glad it was helpful!
easily the most informative tutorial I've seen. Great pacing it was easy to follow along without having to constantly pause and replay. Which version of blender are you using?
Thanks! For this tutorial I was using Blender 2.91
This man made a better character than me just by swiping on the screen a few times, that says a lot about my blender skills
Haha, thanks. Keep on practising and you will improve!
dude, you're effing amazing, i watched more than 2 hours of video editing tutorials in your channel only today and not only did i learn new stuff(and i thought i knew the basics) but ALSO i hyped up and watched your sculpting tutorial(i have never considered sculpting beforehand) you are a sight for sore eyes, and i will gladly take this knowledge and give it back to people(maybe in my own mother language) i dream of making/supporting a tutorial like bob ross did it for painting but for content creation instead(i also program in unity)
Very cool! I'm glad you enjoyed my tutorials!
That was an excellent class on sculpting. I just learned so much in this video. Thanks for sharing your knowledge.
Most welcome!
Ryan I just love your work. I'm new to blender and found your channel and got to know a lot and getting better bit by bit. Thankyou for these tutorials ❤
glad my videos can help!
I decided to start sculpting and luckily it is sculpt January
Awesome!
Excellent intro. Thorough, comprehensive, simple. Thank you!
Glad it was helpful!
One of the best and detailed tutorial I have seen till now , thank you :)
Glad it was helpful!
First lefty tutorial I have watched😄 Also I'm lefty and a beginner 👌🏻 Amazing.
Nice! We leftys are underrated. Lol! Thanks for watching!
I agree. Finally a lefty!
best tutorial for a beginner, thx!
Glad it was helpful!
Its so good to see your set up because I am also left-handed and dindt knew how to use both the keyboard and the table at the same time
Yeah, I thought that might be useful for some people. Thanks!
Thank u so much, this is the most comprehensive blender tutorial ive ever seen 🌟
glad you like it!
0:50 Anyone reading this - Don't let this dissuade you from sculpting! I've never used a pen or wacom tablet, but it just takes a little time to use the mouse. It's similar to asking someone what kind of pen or paintbrush they use. Its all about making the right strokes and less about what utensil makes those strokes. You can also use the stabilize stroke option to make the stroke lag behind a little to give you more even, flowing forms.
I’ve watched like 5 of these this is the only one that helped
Glad it was helpful!
bless the algorithm, today. I may just give sculpting in blender another shot after this, fantastic tutorial!!
Thanks! I hope the video was helpful!
Fantastic video - so much practical information - took me a day to write it all down. Anyone starting to "sculpe" should definitely watch your viedeo. Thank you!
Thanks for watching!
Super simplefied and easy to get the hang of I had been messing around with Blender and made a very burnt furry donut a few hours ago lol and had trouble making faces, but your explaination was super helpful and helped Me understand Thank you :D
You are very welcome!
This tutorial was exactlyyyy what I needed for the project I'm working on so thank you for this amazing and absolutely helpful tutorial! Just a question though, if I were to model a full character body, would I be able to decimate, rig, and then use the character for animation?
Thanks for watching! Yes, you could do that, although I would recommend retopologizing the object after you sculpt it. Then you can do the texturing, rigging and then animate it. proper retopology will make the object move and rotate better when its being rigged and animated.
There are a lot of people on KZhead who are experts at Blender but are totally useless when it comes to making tutorials. So it is indeed a pleasure to find someone like you who is not only a Blender expert but an expert in teaching others to use Blender. What a pity it is that so few have your talent for teaching.
Thanks 🙂
Thank you for the tutorial. I really like your calm and professional teaching style.
Thank you for watching!
Hey nice one again Ryan - but you should update my screencast keys addon, new version just looks better:-) Keep it up m8!
Hello Jayanam! Thanks for checking out my video. Can you give me a link to your screencast Keys addon so that I can update it? I don't remember where I found it online.
Never mind. I found it though your channel. Thanks for creating the addon. It works great!
Thanks! Sometimes people have asked what Screencast keys I use. So next time they ask I will send them this Link. Thanks again!
@@JayAnAm Hi is this 2.91 ready ? tnx
@@rodolflum3444 Yep
How did I start from wanting to learn sculpting and end up signing up for a biology course about the human face......
Lol Cool! Yes, learning anatomy is a very good skill to have for sculpting.
This was really helpful for trying to get back into Blender after using ZBrush alone for so long. Thank you for this! Definitely will save to come back to as needed!
thanks for watching!
Thank you! I'm completely new to sculpting, so your tutorial Was very helpful. Also, your advice was very encouraging.
Glad to hear that. Thanks for watching!
0:43 tip #1 3:16 *LAYOUT* Shift + C to move crosshair to center Shift + A for add menu >Mesh >_ico sphere 03:46 04:16 *SCULPTING* Add things here 04:48 brushes 04:25 Navigation tutorial *(remember)* 6:11 removing additional navigation control 6:19 zoom in tip 06:30 shift + middle mouse button to move around the object 6:40 Alt (option) + middle click of mouse to change center of view 6:50 _period key on the number pad_ to return to recently edited area *⬆️(Also additional short cuts)* Note to self to return back to add to this part later 8:39 *BRUSHES* Hold down control key to carve in with drawing brush
Thanks! 👍
Funny how I didn’t even notice the other guy’s comment listing all other things as well, just started doing it for my own memory purposes, hopefully it’s useful for others