Sculpting for Complete Beginners! (Blender Tutorial)

>> In this video I'll show you
how to get started with sculpting

for complete beginners in Blender.

So I'll show you how you can
set up Blender for sculpting

and then I'll be covering all the basic
tools and the basic brushes for sculpting.

And then after I show you the
basics of sculpting in Blender,

we'll be doing a sculpting exercise
by sculpting this cute fish character.

And then I'll also show you a cool
painting option in Blender sculpt mode

where you can paint some colors on the fish.

And if you'd like to download these free
project files of the finished fish here,

then you can download the project files for free
on my [inaudible] store and my page on page,

I'll have the links in the description.

Now, if you've never used Blender before
and you're a complete beginner to Blender,

then you may want to watch a complete beginner
tutorial series just to learn the very basics

of the program and navigating around the program

and the basic shortcut keys
and basic 3D modeling.

So if you'd like to learn all the
basics of Blender, then definitely check

out my complete Blender beginner tutorial
series, it's a 14 part tutorial series

and it's all completely free
on my YouTube channel.

But in this video I'll just be covering the
basics of the sculpting part of Blender.

And after you watch this video if you find you
really enjoy sculpting and you want to get more

into sculpting, then I can
highly recommend checking

out CG Boost Course, Master
3D Sculpting in Blender.

So that's a much larger course on sculpting and
it goes into so much more depth into sculpting.

So in the course you'll learn all these
sculpting basics, like the different brushes,

the different tools and sculpting workflows.

And the course also has some
different beginner exercises,

which you can follow along
to get better at sculpting.

You'll also learn some cool techniques for
creating base measures for your sculpts

and then the course covers the entire process
of creating this cute creature character.

So after this video if sculpting is
something that you want to get more into,

then I highly recommend checking out
the sculpting course by CG Boost.

And if you purchase the course through
my affiliate link in the description,

it will earn a small commission, so that's
also a great way to help support this channel.

Now, before we get into sculpting, I
highly recommend using a drawing tablet

if you're able to, because drawing
tablets make sculpting so much easier

and it can really improve your sculpts.

Now, if you're just getting started with
sculpting and you want to just try it out

and see if you like sculpting, then you can
definitely use a mouse, but it's much harder

to sculpt with a mouse, so I'd highly recommend
using a drawing tablet if you're able to.

And so in this video I'm going to be
using this small walk and pad tablet,

so it's not anything fancy, it's not a display
tablet or anything, it's just a small tablet,

which I can just plug into my computer and then
I look at my monitor and then the pad tablet is

down on my desk and I just sculpt using the pen.

And using a drawing tablet is much
better for sculpting, because you're able

to have a much better posture, you're able
to make nice smooth strokes with the pen

and most drawing tablets have pen pressure, so
you're able to use the pen pressure to make,

for instance, the brush size thicker
or the brush strength stronger.

And if you're interested in purchasing a
drawing tablet, then I do have some Amazon links

in the description to some tablets that I
recommend and those are affiliate links,

so if you purchase something
through those links,

then I'll earn a small commission,
but with no extra cost to you.

Now, when you're doing sculpting in Blender,
you need to start off with a high poly mesh

for the sculpting, because if I just hit the
tab key to go into edit mode of this cube here,

when you're sculpting it
pulls around the geometry

of the mesh to actually sculpt the mesh.

So if I were to try to sculpt with a very low
poly object, like this cube, I wouldn't be able

to sculpt much detail, because this model
is so low poly, because it has a vertex here

and then another one here, but it doesn't
have any vertices in-between them.

So what I'm going to do is press the A
key to select everything in the scene

and I'll hit X and let's just click on delete.

So I'll now press shift A for the add
menu and I'm going to go down here to mesh

and I'm just going to add an Icoshpere,
because an Icosphere is nice and smooth

and round and it's very detailed.

However, you can see this is kind of
low poly, so if I click right behind me

on the add Icosphere settings, I'm going
to click on the arrows here just to turn

up the Icosphere settings and I'm just
going to turn up really high to like a 7.

If that's a big laggy for you, you don't have
to turn up that high, but I'm going to turn it

up to a 7, so it's nice and smooth and round.

And then I can click here to
close the add Icosphere settings.

So now we can go to Blender sculpt mode, because
right now we are just in the object mode.

So there are two ways to get to Blender
scope mode, you can just select the object

and then you can click here in the corner
and you can change it from object mode

to sculpt mode, but what I prefer
to do is to click right here

to go to Blender sculpting work space.

And this will automatically take you into sculpt
mode of the object that you have selected,

so you can see right here it's
taken us into sculpt mode,

but it's also showing us now the
different settings for sculpting are here,

and some more settings up here
for sculpting and then right

over here you can see we have
the panel with the brushes.

So I like to jump to the sculpting work
space so everything's already set up.

Now, just so you're aware, all of these settings
right here at all these different panels,

all of these settings are the same
settings, which are right over here.

For example, you can see there is the radius
and the strength, so the radius is the size

of your brush and the strength is how strong
it is and those settings are also right here.

So we have the strength and also the radius.

Then there's this Dyntopo setting right here
and this setting is also right down here.

So these settings here and also the
settings on the side panel are the same.

But then right over here on the left
side we have all these sculpting brushes.

Now, before we get into the brushes,
I want to go over basic navigation.

So I have my drawing tablet on
my desk right in front of me,

and then I also have my keyboard a little
bit higher up above my tablet and I'm going

to put my hand over the shift and
control keys, because the shift

and control keys are very common buttons
that you'll use when you're sculpting.

Now you can change the settings of
your tablet in the driver settings

or on the graphics tablet
settings on your computer.

However, I've just left everything
in the default,

so the shortcut keys should work the same if
you've just left everything at the default.

Now, usually the tablet pens will come
with a back button and a front button.

So, to zoom in I'm going to hold
down the control key and then click

and drag with the front pen button.

Now, I'm not actually pressing down with
my tablet, I'm actually pushing the pen

down on the surface, I'm just
hovering my pen over the surface

and then I'm clicking with the front pen button.

So hold down the control key and then click with
the front pen button and you can click and drag

to zoom in and out, but again, my pen
is just hovering over the surface,

but it's not actually pressing
down on the drawing tablet.

Now, if you don't hold down the control key
and you just click with the front pen button,

that is going to orbit around,
so I can look around the sphere.

Now, if you hold down the shift
key and then click and drag

with the front pen button,
that is going to pan around.

So I can move over here to the right side
and move around here to the left side.

Now, another way to zoom around your
sculpt is to hold down the alt key

and then just click with the front pen button.

And you can see wherever I'm clicking, that's
going to kind of zoom over to that area.

Now, to actually sculpt on the digital clay,
we're not actually going to use the pen buttons,

we're actually going to press
down on our tablet.

So you can just click and then
just drag around and then press

down on your tablet and it's going to add clay.

Now, once you've sculpted on an area, if
you want to zoom into that specific area,

you can hit the period key on the keyboard and
that's going to zoom into that specific area.

So if I want to, like, sculpt over here, I can
sculpt there by just pressing down on the tablet

and then hit the period key and you can see
now it's going to zoom into this location,

so if I just orbit around by clicking with the
front pen button and then just moving my pen

over the tablet surface, you can
see we've zoomed into that area.

So, again, if I just press down on the
tablet and draw that, it's going to add clay.

Now, if you want to get rid of clay, so
if you want to push the clay back in,

instead of pulling it out, you
can hold down the control key.

So if I hold down the control key and then
just sculpt here, you can see it's pushing

in the clay, instead of bringing it out.

Now, if you don't want to hold down the control
key, you can instead click on the minus button.

So now that it's set to the minus button,
if I just click and sculpt along here,

you can see that it's going to push in the
clay, then if I click back here to the plus,

now I can just sculpt and it's
going to bring out the clay.

So let's now go over the different brushes.

So I'm not going to go over every single
brush, because this is a beginner tutorial

and there's no point in overwhelming
you with all the brushes.

Most of the brushes I actually use, there's
probably just like five brushes that I use most

of the time, so I'll just be going over the
main brushes that I think you need to know.

Now, the brush which is on
default here is the draw brush.

And if you want to make this bigger so you can
see all the names of the brushes, you can click

and drag out here in the corner
and that is going to make it bigger

and now you can see there's all
the different names of the brushes.

Or if you want to collapse them, you can
click and drag and make this smaller.

You can also make it really small,
if you just want to have one row

of brushes or you can completely close it.

But I'll just leave this how it is, I
like how it is with two rows of brushes.

So the first one here is the draw
brush and this is the default brush

and you can see it's just going to make a little
blob of clay, kind of like a little hump there.

Now, the next most common brush that you'll
probably use is the clay strips brush

and the clay strips brush is
basically going to add layers of clay.

Now, I also want to show you the strength and
the radius, because you can see this is kind

of small right now, so right here you have the
strength, so you can drag this up and down,

so if I turn it way up all the way to one,

now if I sculpt here you can see
it's going to be a lot stronger.

Or if I make this really low, now if I sculpt
here, you can see it's barely adding any detail.

So I'll turn this up pretty
high, maybe I'll turn this up to

like 8.7, so it's kind of stronger.

Then we also have the radius here, so I
can drag up the radius and now if I start

to go long here you can see we're
adding in much larger layers of clay.

Now, there is shortcut keys for
the radius and the strength.

So, if you press the F key, then you can drag
your pen bigger or smaller and then just click

to confirm that and that's going
to change the size of the brush.

So F, make it really big, click and
then you can just sculpt along there.

Now, the radius is shift F. So if you
press shift F, now you can see it's going

to show you how strong it is by this
number here and also how dark it is,

so if I turn it like all the way up to
one, now you can see the strength is going

to be a lot bigger or, again, if I press
shift F, I can make this really small,

maybe just like a .1, and now you
can see it's going to be very subtle.

So, again, F to change the size
and shift F to change the radius.

But if that's too hard to remember,

you can easily just change the
strength and the radius right here.

Now, while we're talking about
the strength and the radius,

I also wanted to talk about the pen pressure.

So most tablets will come with a pen pressure.

So basically that is a sensitivity in the pen,

which is going to detect how hard you
are pressing the pen down on the tablet.

And this is another reason why using a drawing
tablet is so much better than using a mouse

for sculpting, because you
can use the pen pressure.

Now, if you click on this button here,
that is going to turn on the pen pressure.

So right now we'll just leave it on here for the
strength, so now the pen pressure is enabled,

if I just push down really lightly, you can
see it's only adding a little bit of clay.

But if I push down really hard, now you
can see it's adding a lot more clay.

And if I just make my brush a bit smaller,
let me zoom out here, I can start by pressing

down really lightly, and then I can
slowly press down harder and harder,

and you can see it's going to be really strong,
and then I can slowly press down lighter

and lighter and it's going to get less strong.

So that's super useful.

Let's turn this off by clicking on this button.

Now the other one is the radius.

So if I click on this button here, that will
turn on the pen pressure and now if I start

to sculpt here, you can see it's
really small and then if I press

down harder you can see it will get
much bigger and then I can press

down just a little bit and
it will get much smaller.

So this is useful for making really
nice, organic looking strokes.

Now usually when I'm sculpting I
like to have the radius turned off,

but I like to have the strength turned on,
that's just how I like it, but you can also turn

on both of them and after you turn on
both of them, when you press down harder,

it will get stronger and bigger
and if you press down lighter,

then it will get smaller and less strong.

So you can definitely do that if you want
to, you can really do whatever you want.

And as you're sculpting, you can also turn them
on and off, depending on what you're working on.

But I'm going to keep the radius
turned off and the strength turned on.

All right, so let's go back
over the brushes now.

So the next brush that I want
to show you is the crease brush.

This is a super common one.

So if I just zoom in here, let's say that
I want to make a bit of a crease here,

let me just make my brush
bigger, I can just go along here

and you can see it's basically got a pinch
in the clay and kind of add a crease there.

So I can just go along here and
kind of add a nice crease there.

Now if you want to bring it
out instead, you can, again,

hold down the control key as you are sculpting.

And when you hold down the control key, again,
just like I showed you for the draw brush,

it's going to do the opposite effect, so you
can see if I'm holding down the control key,

instead of it creasing it in,
it's going to kind of pinch it out

and make like a little sharp bump there.

And the same thing works for the clay
strips brush, if I just normally sculpt,

it will sculpt out, but if
I hold down the control key,

you can see it's going to sculpt in.

Let's go to another super common
brush, which is the smooth brush.

And this is super useful for smoothing
out your sculpt after you've sculpted,

but you can see right here, if you kind of
zoom on, you can see all the topology there

and it maybe look a little bit rough,
so let me just make my radius bigger.

So now I can just lightly go along here using
that smooth brush and you can see it's going

to smooth out the clay and
make it look a lot nicer.

Now, the smooth brush is so commonly used
that there's actually a shortcut for it.

Now there are actually shortcuts
for all the brushes.

If you just hover your mouse over the brushes,
you can see it's going to show you a shortcut.

So you can see, like, this one the shortcut is
V, so if I hit V that will go to the draw brush

and there's different shortcut
keys for all of them.

I usually just click over here to
click on each one of the brushes.

However, the smooth brush is used so
often, that if you hold down the shift key,

that's going to automatically switch over
to the smooth brush and then if you let go

over the shift key, that will remove
the smooth brush and bring it back

to the brush that you were using before.

So, for example, let's say I'm using a clay
strips brush, I'm going to go along here

and I'm just going to sculpt
some layers of clay.

So let's say you want to smooth this out, well,
instead of clicking here to the smooth brush,

I can just hold down the shift key and
it will automatically turn my brush

into the smooth brush and I can go
along here and just smooth it out.

But then as soon as I let go of the shift key,

it will go back to the brush
that I was using before.

So I can add a bunch of clay here, hold down the
shift key and then just lightly go along here

and kind of smooth it out and then I can
just go back to using the clay strips brush.

Now, another common brush that you might
use is the inflate brush and this is going

to do exactly what the name says.

So if I just go along here you
can see it's basically going

to inflate whatever I'm sculpting.

So it's basically making it
lumpy and kind of popping it out.

Now, another cool brush that you
might use a lot is the scrapes brush.

So for this, let me again just
make my brush a bit bigger.

So I'll press the F key make it bigger.

So with the scrapes brush it's basically
flatten it out and kind of scrape away the clay.

So I want to make this smooth, you
can see if I go along here it's kind

of just flattening it out, it's almost

like I'm scraping away the clay
and making little sharp points.

So I can just go along here, kind of push
that away and kind of flatten that all out

and kind of scrape away the clay.

And then another super useful brush, this
is a really common one, is the grab brush.

And I do use the grab brush a lot
and so the grab brush is right here.

Now the grab brush is really easy to remember
the shortcut, the shortcut key is the G key,

so just hit G for grab, that
will go to the grab brush.

And for the grab brush it's usually
better if your brush is really big,

so with the grab brush instead of it sculpting
the clay, it's going to pull around the clay.

So if I kind of zoom way out
here, make my brush really big,

you can see I can pull the clay around.

So this is super useful just
for moving around the clay

and changing the proportions of your sculpt.

So if you're sculpting something like a face

and then you realize maybe the
proportions are a bit off or maybe

when you're first starting your sculpt, if you
just want to play around with the base mesh,

you can just kind of pull this
around and this brush is very useful.

Now, another useful brush, which
is similar to the grab brush,

but it's a bit different,
is the snake hook brush.

So if I change this over to the snake
hook, now if I just click and drag here,

you can see it's similar to the grab brush,
but instead of it pulling around to large area,

it's just going to pull around this small
area and I can kind of pop out this area

and maybe bring this out, so it's going to
kind of make sort of like a snake shape.

Now, another really useful feature for sculpting
that you'll probably use a lot is the symmetry.

So I've just brought back this
original Icosphere here and let's say

that you're sculpting like a face or a
character or something which is symmetrical

and if you want one side to be
mirrored over to the other side,

what you can do is click on these buttons here.

So these are the symmetry settings, you can
see it kind of looks like a butterfly there

and the most common one you're going to use
is the X, so if I turn on the X symmetry,

now you can see as I move my brush here,
you can see there's a little blue dot here

and then also another blue dot on the other
side showing you where it's going to mirror.

So if I was sculpting a face here, you can
see it's going to mirror on the other side,

so that's how you can add symmetry when
you are sculpting a character or a creature

or really anything which is symmetrical.

And you can also turn on the X one and the Y one
if you want to as well, you can see that's going

to add the symmetry on the XY and Z axis, but
for most things you're probably just going

to use the X axis to symmetrize
it back and forth.

Now this happens for me a lot, let's say I'm
sculpting a face or something and I'm going

to start to sculpt the eye and then I
realize I forget to turn on the symmetry.

Well, what you can do is click on
this little drop down arrow right here

and then there is a symmetrized setting and
you can see there is a direction and most

of the time you can just leave it at negative
X to positive X or you might just change it

from positive X to negative X, but
I'm just going to leave this how it is

and then click on the symmetrize button.

And what that did is it took the
negative X, which is over on this side,

and then it mirrored it over to the
positive X, which is over on this side.

And then, of course, click on the X
button here to turn on the X symmetry

and then you can continue
to sculpt your character

and it will mirror it to the other side.

Now, I mentioned this earlier in the video, but
if you have a very low poly mesh and you try

to sculpt with this, let me just add a cube
here and go to sculpt mode, you can see if I try

to sculpt this, I can't really add much detail
here, even if I go to the clay strips brush,

and start to add clay here, start to sculpt,
you can see it's not really doing anything,

except on the edges and that is
because this is a very low poly mesh.

So you need a very high poly mesh, like
this object here, it's very high poly,

because the sculpt mode actually
moves around the geometry of the mesh.

But usually when you're sculpting you're
going to need to add more geometry

as you're sculpting, because let's say I'm going
to pull out the mesh here, let's just drag this

up here, let's say I'm maybe making
a limb on a character or something,

you can see as I pull this out
here using the snake hook brush,

you can see the geometry is being all stretched
out, if I hit the tab key to go into edit mode,

you can see the vertices and
faces are being really stretched.

So as you're sculpting, you're going to
need to add more geometry as you sculpt.

And there's two different ways to do that
and those two settings are right up here,

so there's the Dyntopo and there is the remesh
and I'll show you how to use both of them.

So first, let's go over the remesh.

So you can remesh the sculpt as you
are sculpting and it's going to smooth

out the geometry and it's
going to even out the geometry.

So let's say that I wanted to add more
detail to this, because if I like go here

to the clay strips brush and
then I start to sculpt here,

you can see because all the
faces are really stretched,

it just looks really warped and weird.

So what I can do is I can press the R key.

And when I press the R key, a grid is going to
show up and I can drag my pen back and forth

and this will change the size of the remesh.

So I'll just make it a big smaller and
then just click to place that there.

Now, I haven't actually remeshed it, so
to remesh it now I can press control R.

And control R is going to remesh the sculpt, so
you can see the sculpt still retains its shape,

however, it's giving lots
more detail to the geometry,

so now if I start to sculpt here
you can see the geometry is nice

and smooth and that looks much better.

If I press the R key again and like drag
this grid here and make it really small

and then press control R, you can
see it's going to be really low poly.

So this is a really great
workflow using the remesh,

so as you're sculpting you can occasionally
press the R key, make it more detailed,

then press control R to remesh it, and then
you can add more detail as you need it.

So that's a really great workflow.

Another really great workflow
to sculpting is the Dyntopo.

And the Dyntopo will add more
geometry as you're sculpting.

So if you're just sculpting in a specific spot
and you're sculpting a really detailed area,

it's just going to add more detail to that area.

So to show you, I'm going to press
the R key, make this a bit smaller

and then I'll press control R
and it's going to remesh it.

So you can see all the individual faces now.

Well, if I click on this checkmark here,
and then I just need to click on okay,

that is going to turn the Dyntopo on.

So with the Dyntopo, if you
click right here on the dropdown,

you can see there's going to be a detail size.

So, for example, I'll just
turn this to like a 6 for now.

So now if I start to sculpt here, you can
see it's adding more geometry as I sculpt.

If I hold down the Z button, that's going to
bring up this pie menu and I can move my mouse

over to wireframe and then let go, you can
also just click on this button here to go

to wireframe and you can see,
here's the geometry of the mesh.

But where I've sculpted you can see it's
much more detailed and if I just sculpt more

and more, maybe zoom in a bit
and then sculpt more and more,

you can see it's going to be much more detailed.

If I hit the tab key to go into edit mode
and let's just go back to solid view,

you can see now it's more detailed where
we have sculpted, because that Dyntopo.

But then right over here it's lower detailed.

So let's go back into sculpt mode, you can see
it actually turned the Dyntopo setting off,

so I need to click on this checkmark here
and then click on okay and then, of course,

that detail is also controlled
by the detail size.

So let's say I wanted to
make this much less detailed,

so let's turn this detail size to like a 10.

Now, if I sculpt here you can see the detail
is a lot smaller, there is less detail

because I've turned that size up.

So if you turn this detail
size down to a smaller number,

then the faces are going to be smaller.

Now, I mentioned that if you zoom in closer and
then sculpt, there's going to be more detail.

Well, that is controlled by this setting
right here, that relative detail.

So if I click on the relative detail and
then change it to constant detail instead,

now I can zoom in and I can sculpt
and you can see it's super low detail,

so on the Dyntopo settings I
need to change this resolution,

so I'm just going to turn this
resolution to like a 30 instead.

Now, if I sculpt here you can see it's adding a
detail level of 30, but if I zoom really far out

and then sculpt, you can see the detail
level is still going to be the same.

Or if I zoom in really, really
close and then sculpt,

you can see the detail level is the same.

So that is because we set the
detailing to constant detail.

But I like relative detail better, because
if I'm sculpting a really detailed area,

I can turn it to relative detail and
that way if I zoom in, that area is going

to be more detailed and if I zoom in
more, it will be even more detailed,

but then if I zoom really far away,
it's going to be less detailed.

So that is super useful using
the Dyntopo feature.

So you can really use whichever method you
like, you can use the remesh or the Dyntopo

and as you get better at sculpting you'll
find that sometimes some places are better

for the remesh and others
are better for the Dyntopo.

So now that I've gone over the basic brushes and
the basic tools, let's do a sculpting exercise

by sculpting the cute fish character.

So I'm just going to click right back here to
go to the layout and that will take us back

to object note and we can just
delete this practice object

and let's now model a base mesh for the fish.

So I'm first going to press shift C to make sure

that this three cursor here
is in the center of the scene.

So I'll now go to the add menu
and I'm just going to add a cube.

And I will hit the tab key to go into
edit mode and I'm going to the face select

and I'll just select the front of the cube.

And I will hit E to extrude, we're just
going to extrude the front of the cube a bit

and then extrude out again and kind
of scale it down and then bring it

down on the Z axis and bring
it over on the Y axis.

Let's now hit tab to go back to
object mode and I'll press control 2

to add a subdivision surface will two levels

and I'll use the object context
menu and click on shade smooth.

You can also click on object and then
click on shade smooth right there.

And I'll hit tab to go back into edit mode and
I'm going to click right here on this button

to go to the vertex select and
I will hold down the alt key

and then select that loop of vertices there.

And I will scale it up a bit and
I can also bring it back a bit

and then maybe press the A
key to select the entire mesh

and scale everything in just a little bit.

Let's also click on this button
here to go to the face select.

We can select this face and maybe bring it
out a bit and scale it down a little bit.

So this is going to be the front of the
fish and this will be the back of the fish.

So we'll select the back of the fish here and
we will hit the eye key to inset that face

and then we can also scale it up on the Z
axis and then also scale it and we'll hit X

and scale it down on the X axis and
scale the whole thing down a bit.

Then it will extrude it out and
we'll just extrude out a little bit

and then we'll extrude it out and then scale
it up on the Z axis, so hit S and then Z,

we can scale it up and then
extrude it out again just like that.

Let's now hit tab to go back to object
mode, that's going to be the base

of the fish, so we'll now model the fins.

So in object mode I'm going to add a new
object, so press shift A for the add menu,

let's click here to add a cube and I'll hit tab
to go into edit mode and I can hit G to grab

and bring in the cube over
on the X axis and then hit S

to scale and scale it down on the Z axis.

And then scale the whole thing down a bit.

Let's hit tab to go back to object mode and
I can move the cube over and bring it down.

And you can see, because I
was editing in object mode,

the origin point is still
in the very center here.

So if I click here to go to the
modifiers, let's click on add modifier,

I can click here for the search
and I will search for mirror,

we'll add the mirror modifier, so
it's mirrored over to the other side,

because the mirror point is
going to be from the origin.

So I'll hit tab to go into edit mode and
I can bring it in here into the fish,

maybe bring it down a little
bit and bring it back a bit.

And then if I hold the Z button
and go into wireframe view,

I will hit A to deselect everything, I will
click and drag just to box select that part

of the fin, and I'll scale it down
on the Y axis to make it pointy.

Let's go back to solid view and I will press
control R. Control R is going to add a loop cut

and I will left click and then right
click so the loop cut stays where it is.

And then if I select this vertex here
and then I'll hold down the shift key

and then select this vertex here, I can hit
G to grab and bring it out on the X axis

and just make that fin longer, maybe
select everything with the A key

and scale everything up on the Y axis.

Then I can rotate it until it's rotated
around, you can also double tap the R key

and that will enable the track bar rotation and
you can kind of rotate that down and bring it

down a little bit, something like that.

Let's hit tab to go back to object mode.

And then I'll press control 2 to add
a subdivision surface with two levels

and then we can hit tab to
go back into edit mode

and I will press control R to add a loop cut.

I will left click and then drag this down over
here and then left click again right there.

Hit tab to go back to object mode and
I will use the object context menu

and then choose shade smooth.

I use the right click select
and blender, so I hit W key,

but you can just right click
and then click on shade smooth.

Let's also now add like a fin on
the top, so I will press shift C

to make sure the 3D cursor
is in the very center there.

I will go to the add menu and we'll add a cube.

I'll press control 2 to add a subdivision
surface with 2 levels, and we'll bring the cube

up and then I will use the object
context menu and shade it smooth.

Then we'll go into edit mode and I'm
going to scale it down on the X axis

and then also scale it down on the Z axis
and go back to object mode and move it over

and bring it down here and then
I can select these two vertices

and bring it back a bit, something like that.

Select these two vertices, and
bring them back a little bit.

Select everything and maybe scale it down
on the Z axis or on the X axis like that.

And then I can press control R for a loop cut
and I can drag this down just to sharpen it

and maybe scale everything
down on the Z axis like that.

All right, go back to object mode
and that's looking pretty good.

So that's going to be the basic base
mesh that we're going to use to sculpt,

but I need to join this all
together so that it's one object.

So before I join an object together, I need to
make sure that all the modifiers are the same

or all the modifiers are applied.

So what I'm going to do is
click on the fins here

and if I open the side panel you can
see there is this mirror modifier,

so let's click on the dropdown
arrow right here and click on apply.

So if I can go into edit mode, you
can see it's actual geometry now.

So now you can see that each one

of these objects have the same
subdivision surface modifier.

So I'll select the fin, hold down the shift
key, select the other fin and then hold

down the shift key and select the body last.

And I will press control J and that's
going to join it together into one object.

Now, I want to make this much more detailed, so
here on the level Z port hand render I'm going

to click here to turn these up so it's very,
very smooth, and I'm going to turn them

up to like a 5 so it's really smooth.

And then if I click on the dropdown, I
can click on apply to apply the modifier.

So if I hit tab to go into edit mode, you
can see the fish now is pretty detailed.

So we can now go into sculpt mode, before
we do that though, let's save the project,

so I'll click on file and click on save.

And I'll just rename this to "Fish
Sculpt," and then click on save Blender file

and just save that on my computer.

So now we click right here to go to Blender
sculpt mode and it's going to take us

into the sculpting mode here and then also
we have all the tools and the brushes.

Now before we start sculpting this, if I
zoom in here and I go inside the sculpt,

you can see that there is mesh which is
overlapping .We definitely don't want this,

because if I start to sculpt here,
you can see that there's going

to be some really weird issues
where the mesh is overlapping,

because there are two different meshes.

So what I'm going to do is use Blender's remesh
feature to actually remesh this all together,

so that it is one object and it will connect and
it won't be two different pieces of the object.

So, again, to use the remesh you can press the
R key and then you can drag your mouse here

and then just click when
it is pretty high quality.

So I'm going to make it about that high
quality and then you can press control R.

And that's going to remesh it,
so now you can see if I zoom

in here you can see it's connecting,

if I go into edit mode you can see
the mesh is connecting and also

if I go inside here you can see there
isn't any overlapping faces or any objects

which are separate, so it's all just one object.

So now we can start to sculpt this.

Now as I talked about earlier, we want to turn
on the symmetry, so it mirrors our sculpting

from one side over to the other side, so
we're going to click on this X right here,

so now you can see there's that little
blue dot there, so if I sculpt on this die,

it's going to mirror it over to the other side.

But I'll press control Z to undo that.

Now, before I sculpt this, there is
another setting that I want to turn on.

If I click here on the brush
and click on this dropdown,

there's going to be a bunch
of different brush settings.

What I want to do is go all the way
to the bottom and I'm going to turn

on this front faces only,
so I'll checkmark that.

If this is turned off, let me
just show you what can happen.

So if this is turned off and I'm like sculpting
here, you can see that it might start to sculpt

on the other side and it won't
sculpt just from the front faces.

And it can see it just happened right here.

You can see I was sculpting right here,
but as I was sculpting right here,

these faces were really close, because
this is a pretty thin part of the mesh,

it's pretty thin here, so these
faces started to be pulled along

with my sculpting, so it messed up the mesh.

So let me just press control Z to undo that.

So if I click on the brush drop down
and then choose front faces only,

it's going to only sculpt
the front of the faces.

And this in here, inside the
mesh, that's the back of the face,

but out here, that's the front of the face.

So now if I start to sculpt here, if I sculpt
along here, now you can see we're not having

that issue, even if I sculpt on this
part, which is like really close,

you can see it's only going
to sculpt on the front faces.

If I sculpt like this, it's kind
of grabbing both of the faces,

so that is kind of messing it up, so
I'll press control Z to undo that.

But if I just sculpt right here on
this front part, here on the fin,

you can see it's not affecting
the back of the mesh.

But I'm going to press control Z
just to undo all that sculpting,

because that was just an example.

Now, something to be aware of is that if I
click here onto a different brush setting

and then click on the brush here,
then you can see I might need

to turn on the front faces only again.

So if you're having issues with that, if
you're sculpting and you realize that it kind

of pulled some of the back of
the mesh, then just make sure

that this brush front faces only
is turned on, because if you switch

to a different brush, it might be turned off.

So let's start by using the grab
brush to add some details to the fin.

So you can hit the G key or you can
click here to go to the grab brush.

And for the grab brush I really don't need the
front faces only to be on, that's not important,

because I'm pulling around the mesh,
so I don't need to worry about that.

And then, again, you can change the
strength right here and the radius.

I'm going to make the radius smaller by either
dragging here or you can press the F key

and then drag over and then click
there to make it a bit smaller.

So let's now use the grab brush
to pull out some cool details.

So right here on this fin I'm going to click
and drag to kind of pull this out a bit.

And then right here I can kind of push this in.

And then right here I can kind of push this in.

And then here at the end I can
kind of push that out a bit.

And also click here and kind of tap along on
my pen, on my tablet, I got to push that out.

Let's also do the same thing on the back here.

So if I go to the back I can kind of pull this
out here, maybe zoom out a bit, pull this out

and then zoom in a little bit and kind of pull
it out even more to kind of sharpen it up.

And then right here I can kind of tap here,
just lightly, kind of push that in a little bit.

And then back here, or kind of on the
end, I can zoom in and tap along here just

to pull out that area, like that.

And then right up here I can kind of tap
along here to kind of pull that out there.

So now you can see already we have
some really cool details to our fish.

And as you're sculpting you can press control
S to save the file or you can click on file

and just click on save to save your project.

And, of course, you can see
right over here it's done it

for the other side, because
we have the symmetry on.

So now let's do the same thing
for the fin here, the top fin.

So I'll just kind of tap along here to kind of
pull out this area and then I can click and drag

or tap along there on my
tablet to kind of push that in.

Then I can pop this out here, then I can
push this in a bit and then I can kind

of pull this part out here, maybe I can even
pull this back a bit so it's a bit more round,

maybe even bring this down a little bit.

All right, and then maybe here kind of
push this out, so it's a little bit bigger

up here, maybe pull this part out here.

And push this in there.

So there we go, you can already see
it's looking more like a stylized fish.

You can also kind of pull around this part
here if you want to kind of change the front

or the face of the fish, if you want
to, maybe even kind of pull this out,

just to make it a bit more smooth and round,
and you can just change the proportions.

Now is a good time to change the
proportions before we add more details.

And if this is looking a little bit stretched,
we might as well remesh it, so press the R key

and that's going to bring up the remesh setting.

I can't see it, so I need to zoom out.

Press the R key and I can drag this around.

And it wants to be pretty detailed,
so maybe like click right there

and then press control R and
that's going to remesh it.

So now if I hold down the Z button and move
my mouse over to the wireframe and let go,

you can now kind of see how detailed that is

and it fixed any geometry
that we kind of pulled around.

Now, let's also hold down the shift key and
remember holding down the shift key is going

to go to the smooth brush
or you can also just click

on the smooth brush by clicking right here.

But I'm just going to hold down the shift
key and then I can just lightly smooth this

out here, lightly smooth this out
around here, just to kind of smooth

out where the fins are connecting to
the body, maybe hold down the shift key

and lightly smooth that out there and there.

All right, and then also we can go right
up here and lightly hold down the shift key

and just press down very
lightly and just kind of smooth

that out there and smooth that out there.

So now let's sculpt in the eye sockets
and for sculpting in the eye sockets I

like to use the clay strips brush.

And I'll press the F key to make my brush a
bit smaller and let's just zoom in right here

and then instead of pushing
out the clay by sculpting,

I'm going to hold down the control key and then
sculpt and that's going to push in the clay.

And I'm just going to go around in circles here
and just kind of push in where the yes are.

So that's looking pretty
good, I like how that is.

You can make it a little
bit bigger if you want to.

So just going around here in circles and
kind of pushing in where the eye sockets are.

And let's also press control
R just to remesh it again,

so it adds a bit more detail
to that area, go along there.

And then, hold down the shift key
and you can just lightly smooth

that out where you sculpted, right.

So that's pretty good.

If you want to hit the G key for the grab brush,

you can also kind of play
around with the shape of it.

You want to, like, make it a little bit bigger,
or kind of pull the eyes closer together

or something like that, but
that's looking pretty good.

So we're going to add a different
object in here,

which is going to be kind of a cartoony eye.

You can also while you're still using the
grab brush, you can kind of pull this down

and maybe shape the fish a little bit, kind
of shape the front of the fish if you want to.

So now I want to carve in the mouth and to
carve away the mouth I can use the crease brush.

So I'm going to click right
here to draw the crease brush.

I'll press the F key to make my brush
smaller and I can just find a spot here

and then I can go along here and
I can start to crease that in.

Let's also click and drag here to make
the strength of it a little bit bigger.

And then I can go along here and start
to crease in where that mouth is.

All right, so something like that.

Crease that in there.

Maybe hold in the shift key and kind
of smooth out the bottom lip there.

All right, so that's a bit better,
kind of crease that in there.

And then just crease along there, kind
of keep it kind of smooth and then hold

down the shift key and you can just
kind of smooth that out a little bit.

Maybe zoom out a little bit
and smooth it out a bit more.

And then also let's crease down here, all
right, so it comes over and then comes down.

You can also press control R again and that will
kind of remesh it, so it has a bit more detail.

And then you can hit the G key for the
grab brush and you can kind of pull this

around if you want to change the shape of it.

So maybe I'll like push this down a little
bit and kind of pull up the nose a little bit,

just so there's kind of a subtle bump there
and then you can kind of change the smile

or change the shape of the mouth.

So, something like that.

I want him to maybe be smiling a little bit
more, so I can kind of pull up that mouth there.

And right here I actually want to pull in the
mouth, so I'll just use the grab brush and kind

of just pull in that mouth so
it's a little bit more thin.

Now, what I'm also going to do is click
here to go to the clay strips brush

and then I can go along here and just lightly
add a little bit more clay and then hold

down the shift key and lightly
smooth that out there.

Let's go back here to the crease brush and then
I can just crease this in just a little bit.

Now I want to do some more detailed
sculpting for the gills and the scales.

So what I'm going to do is stop
using the remesh feature now

and I'm going to use the Dyntopo feature.

So this will add geometry as
I sculpt and if I'm sculpting

in a more detailed area,
it will add more geometry.

So I'm going to click on this
checkmark here and then click on okay.

Let's also click control
S to save this file again.

So now the Dyntopo is turned on.

And I'm going to click right here
to go to the clay strips brush.

And if I click right here on the
Dyntopo settings, the detail size is 10,

let me just sculpt along here and see how that
is, I think I'll press control Z to undo that.

Let's turn the Dyntopo down even
smaller to maybe just like a 5.

So now I'll press the F key to make my
brush a bit smaller and I'm going to start

by sculpting kind of a little gill, so I will go
along here and just add a bit of clay and kind

of sculpt in like a gill there, all
right, like that and then also right here,

just sculpt it a little bit, all right, go
long there, just add a bit of clay there.

And then I will hold down the shift key
and holding down the shift key and holding

down the shift key is going to go to the smooth
brush and I can just smooth that out there.

But I'm going to leave this part here,
because that's going to be the gill.

And then if I want to crease this
a bit, I can go to the crease brush

and I can just go along here and
just crease it in just a little bit,

maybe turn down the strength, so it's not quite
as strong and just crease that in a little bit.

Now, remember, if you hold down the control
key, it's going to do the opposite effect.

So if I want to pinch this out and kind of
sharpen it, I can hold down the control key

with the crease brush and just kind of pinch
that in and that's going to pull it out

and kind of pinch it a little bit.

Then you can see we have that little ridge there
and then if you don't hold down the control key

and just sculpt, that's going to pinch that in.

All right, so there we go, we have kind
of a little simple gill and now I'm going

to along here and I'm going
to sculpt some scales.

So I'll go back here to the clay strips brush
and I'm just going to go along here and kind

of make these little like backwards C
shapes, or kind of like half moon shapes

and then go along here to fill it and then hold
down the shift key and kind of smooth that.

All right, let's go down here and do it again.

So go along here, add that little
kind of half moon shape and then hold

down the shift key and smooth that out there.

Go along here, add another one.

All right, hold down the shift
key, smooth that out there.

We can just start to make a cool
pattern there for some stylized scales.

And those add some more scales, so this time
I'm going to start the scales on the center

of the other ones, so we can add another layer
of scales, and this one is going to go up there

and then end on the other
top of that layer of scales.

So we go along there.

You can also smooth this out, if you kind
of added too much detail there, all right.

And then kind of fill this
in and then just smooth this

out by holding down the shift key, all right.

And then this one here, we can start right
here, and it can come up and then go back down.

Bring that out more and then
hold down the shift key and kind

of smooth that out a bit more, like that.

All right, so now we have some more scales.

Let's also add maybe another like
half one there and then just hold

down the shift key and smooth that out there.

And then we'll add another half one kind
of right there, which is kind ending.

All right.

Add more clay and then hold down the
shift key and smooth that out there.

And we'll add another one here, so go
up and down, all right, around there,

hold down the shift key and smooth that out.

And then right up here, we'll add another
one, so this one will go up and then kind

of end right over there and then hold down
the shift key and smooth that one out as well.

You can also hit the G key for the grab
brush and then you can pull this around,

if you want them to like pop out
a bit more or if you just want

to kind of play with the shape of them.

All right, that's pretty good.

And then another thing you can do
is you can go to the crease brush.

So back to the crease brush.

If you want to, you can hold down the control
key and you can kind of pinch that out just

to make it even more visible, so you can kind
of pinch out the edges there of the scale.

So just kind of pinch out those edges of
the scales so they're a bit more visible.

So I'm just going to keep on doing that and
add a bit more scales to the rest of the fish.

Then holding down the shift key,
smoothing that part out there,

we can go along here add another one.

And if you'd rather, what you
could do without smoothing them

out is you could first just sculpt all of them,
so like sculpt that one there, that one there

and that one there and then
once you're done sculpting it,

then you can smooth all of them out.

If you want to do that, that
might be a bit easier.

And then we'll add another one kind of coming
up here, then we'll add another one right there,

one more right there, and then maybe another
like half one going off to the bottom

of the fish, just going around
kind of in circles while holding

down the shift key to smooth that out.

And I'll just do a few more
layers of the scales.

All right, and I'm going to call that
done for those scales there on the fish.

Now another detail that I want to add is
kind of like some creases here on the fins.

So I'll go to the crease brush
and we still have the Dyntopo on,

so it will add more geometry as we sculpt.

I'll just go along here, maybe ask
my strength quite a bit bigger,

make the strength a bit stronger.

And I'll go along here and just
add some little lines here just

to add a bit more detail,
I think that's pretty cool.

Adding some lines there, just along those fins.

And then we can go up here to the top
and we can do like the same thing.

So we go along there and just add a bit
of details to the fins all along there.

All right, that's kind of cool.

And then also let's go to the very end
here or the very back, so the tail,

and I can go along there, maybe
add another one right up here.

And then down here, add another one.

And then we can just kind of fill those
all in by adding more of those lines.

So just adds a cool detail to that
kind of cartoony stylized fish.

And there we go, that really
adds a lot to the fish.

And then another cool setting that I wanted
to show you with the brush settings is

if you click here on stroke,
this will change the stroke

of the brush and right now it's set to space.

So this is basically going to add a little kind
of stamps of the brush, but the spacing is set

to 10, so you're not really
going to be able to notice it.

If I turn the spacing way up now, if I make
it like a really big spacing, now if I click

and drag, you can see there's going to be a big
space before it makes that little stamp there.

So, what I can do is I can click
right here to go to the draw brush

and then I can make the strength a lot bigger.

Then if I click here on the stroke settings
of this one, let's maybe just turn the spacing

up a little bit, maybe to just like 90, and
now if I go along here, you can see it's going

to add some little dots there,
so that's pretty cool.

So that's just another useful tool.

I'll press control Z to undo that.

So let me go back to the stroke and let's turn
it up a little bit more, maybe to like 150.

And then if I kind of go along here,
you can see I can add some little dots.

So maybe I'll like zoom way in
to kind of the cheeks of the fish

and then I can make my brush really small and
I can just go along here and add some dots.

Although that spacing is a little bit too close.

So, again, let me take the stroke spacing
and turn that up to maybe like 200 or 300.

And then I can just go along here and you
can also just click and tap if you wanted to,

but this is a cool way to
quickly add some more details.

So that's kind of cool if you wanted
to add like a bit of a pattern there

or some details on the fish, you could do that.

And while on the stroke settings, you
can also change the stroke method.

So on default it's set to space, but another
cool one you could choose is you can do

like the line instead, so
let's change this to line.

And then back on the stroke settings
we'll turn the spacing way down just

to around the default, which is about 10.

And, so, if I use the line, if I click and drag
here, you can see it's going to show me a line

and then when I let go, it's
going to sculpt the line there.

So that was pretty cool, you
could add some cool details.

Maybe it's not the best for this fish model,
I don't really know what I would add to it,

but if you wanted to kind of create some
lines, you could do that with the line stroke.

So that's going to bit it for the sculpting,
so I'm going to call this done for now.

So I am going to show you how
you can do some cool painting,

and you can actually paint
some colors on this fish.

So before I do that, I want to model the eyes.

So I'm going to click here to go back
to the layout and I will press control S

to save the project and I'm
just going to use my mouse

and keyboard for this just to model the eye.

So I'm going to press shift C to make sure the
3D cursor is in the very center of the scene

and I'll go to the add menu and
I'm just going to add a UV sphere.

And I'll bring the UV sphere forward on the Y
axis and then I can hit tab to go to edit mode

and I can scale it down and I can move it here
and just move it inside where the fish's eye is.

And let's also click here and add modifier
here in the modifiers and I'm going to search

for a mirror and we'll add the mirror modifier.

And then I can double the R key

and double tapping the R key will use the track
bar rotation and I'm just going to rotate this

around so the fish is kind
of looking forward like that.

And then I can kind of scale that down and
just stick the eye there in the eye sockets.

That's a bit too far out, so maybe
just bring that back a little bit.

And then I'll hit tab to go back to object mode

and I'll use the object context
menu and shade that smooth.

And then also let's press control
2, control 2 is the shortcut key

for adding a subdivision surface
modifier so it's more smooth.

Let's go back into edit mode and
maybe we can scale this up a bit.

Then I'm going to add kind of a little
bump for like the iris or the pupil.

So I'm going to hold down the alt key and
then just select that loop right there

and then I can hold down the shift and
alt key and select that loop right there

and then just hold down the shift key
and select that vertex right there.

And I can hit E to extrude and then S to
scale and maybe make it a little bit smaller

and then what I can also do is add a loop cut to
kind of sharpen this up, so I'll press control R

to add a loop cut and I can click and drag
over and then just click to place that there.

So if I go back to object mode now you can
see we have a cute eye there for our fish.

Let's press control S to save this and then
we can hold down the Z button and we can go

down into the material preview just
to see what the materials look like.

And we can create a material for the eye.

So we'll select the eye, let's
click here on the materials.

Let's click on `new to add a new material.

And we can just call this white.

And then here on the roughness we'll
turn that to zero, so it's really shiny.

And on the base color I'll
make this fully white.

Now I just want to add a dark area
where the center of the eye is,

so I will hit the tab key to go into edit mode.

I'm going to hit A to deselect everything.

I will hold down the alt key and select
that loop there and then hold down the shift

and alt key and select that loop and hold down
the shift and alt key and select that loop

and then if you hold down the shift
key you can select the center vertex.

So we'll now click on the plus
here to add a new material.

Let's click on new and I can click on this
to rename it and I'll rename this to black.

And then we can click on the
assign button and that will assign

that black material to just those faces.

So I will hit tab to go back to object
node and then if I click on the base color

on the black material, I will make it
fully black and I can take the roughness

and turn it all the way down so it is shiny.

So now we have some cute cartoony eyes.

So now we can do some painting here on the fish.

So I'm going to go back to Blender sculpt mode

and Blender sculpt mode actually
has a painting mode.

Now, it's not exactly the same as texture
painting, where you're texture painting

on a texture and then you're UVN
wrapping the texture onto the object,

this mode for texture painting
actually uses the vertices or the detail

of the mesh to paint the different colors.

So I'm going to scroll my mouse down here
and you can see that there's a paint mode.

So I'm going to click on the paint mode and then

for the painting I'm going to
bring back my drawing tablet.

So if you're in the paint mode you can
see right up here there is this black one

and then this white one here, but
the black one is the main color.

So if I click on this color, I can make it
whatever color I want with the color wheel,

so I'm going to make it like a red color.

And then the same settings apply for the brush,

so you can see there's the
brush strength and the radius.

I'll press the F key to make the
radius bigger and then I can start

to go along here and I can paint.

Now, as I mentioned earlier, this
isn't actually a texture map,

this is just using the detail
of the geometry to paint this.

So if you're trying to paint this using a
very low poly model, then it's not going

to work correctly and it's
not going to be very detailed.

But because this object is really detailed and
it has lots of geometry, we're actually painting

on the vertices, and each vertex or each
face is going to be a different color.

So it works well for just quickly
doing some basic coloring to the model.

So now that I painted this in all with the
red, I'm going to click here on the color wheel

and I'm going to change this
to a bright yellow color.

And then I can also click here
to make my brush stronger.

And I can zoom in and then I can go along here

and I can paint this and
I can paint it in yellow.

And again here we have the
symmetry turned on with the X there,

so it's going to be mirrored
over to the other side.

So I can just go along here and I can just paint
along here, paint in yellow, that's pretty cool.

And then let's click on the color again
and this time I'm going to change it

to like an orangey color and I'll make my
brush less strong and I will go along here

and just paint a little bit of an orange color,

maybe make the orange color a little bit more
towards the yellow and just paint a little bit

of orange here along where the scales are

and also maybe along here
paint that a bit of orange.

And down here, make that a little bit orange.

And also the belly of the fish, I thought
that would be fun to make it a bit orange.

All right, something like that.

And then maybe on the back here, we can make it
a little bit of orange here along the back fin.

So something like that is pretty cool.

So I will now click on the layout
to go back to the layout view.

Now you can see in the layout, if you hold down
the Z button and go to the material preview

or click on this button to go into the material
preview or if you hold down the Z button

and go into the rendered view to see what
this actually looks like when it's rendered,

you can see that it's not actually showing
the colors and that's because we need

to do a very simple setup in the materials to
tell it to use those colors that we painted.

So I'm going to click here to go to the
shading workspace and this is going to go

into the shader editor and we need
to add a material to the fish.

So we'll just click on new
here to add a new material

and here I can just type in,
fish, just to call this fish.

So then these here are the shader
nodes, if you don't know how

to use the procedural shader nodes, I have lots
of tutorials on how to use the shader nodes.

You can, of course, check out My Blender
for complete beginners tutorial series

and you can also check out My Blender
beginner fundamentals playlist,

where I have many different videos
on different parts of Blender.

But this is basically the principle shader,
if I hold down the Z button and move my mouse

into the material preview, this is the shader,
so you can see I can like change the roughness

and you can also, like, change the color.

But what I'm going to do is just add in a new
here, which has the color data that we painted.

So I'll press shift A for the add menu, and
I'm going to start to type in, attribute,

and we can go here to the color attribute.

So we'll click on the color attribute, drop it
here and then if I click on this right here,

we can choose this color and
this is the one that we painted.

Now we can take these wires here and I can
plug the color wire into the base color.

So instead of it using the base
color, which is one single color,

it's now going to use the colors that
we painted in the painting sculpt mode.

So I can now click back here to go to the
layout and then I'll just do a few things

to make this look really nice in the 3D view.

So I'll click here to go to the render
properties and I'm going to scroll down here

and on the color management I'm going to
click on the look here and change this

to very high contrast to kind of pop of the
colors and make them look more saturated.

And then if you just want to
change the view port lighting,

you can click on this dropdown here.

If you're in the material preview here, you
can click around here and then you can click

on this here, this little circle and this is
going to give you some different HDRI lightings,

so you can change this around
to something that looks nice.

And then you can also maybe turn the strength

down if you don't want it
to be quite that strong.

And then one more thing you can do, if you
select the fish, you can click here to go

to the materials, you can make the fish look a
bit more reflective by dragging this roughness

down and now you can see the fish
looks a bit more shiny and reflective.

And there we go, we now have a
nice, cute, stylized 3D fish sculpt.

So that's going to wrap it up for this tutorial.

So that is the basics of how to do
sculpting in Blender for beginners.

So I hope you enjoyed this video, I hope you
found it helpful and thank you for watching.

And you can also purchase the finished
project files for free on my Gumroad store

and my Patreon page, the
links are in the description.

And also my Gumroad store and Patreon page
are great ways to help support this channel

and on my Gumroad store and Patreon page you
can get access to lots of Blender content,

like 3D models and assets, tutorial files,
artwork project files, procedural materials,

geometry node, modifier setups
and lots more Blender content

on my Gumroad store and my Patreon page.

And if you really enjoy sculpting and you
want to get more into sculpting and Blender

and learn more about sculpting, then you can
check out my Blender sculpting tutorial playlist

on my YouTube channel where I have
many more sculpting tutorials.

So I have specific videos on some of
the tools and some of the workflows

and then I also have some follow along
tutorials where you can learn how

to sculpt some different sculptures.

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really want to get at and something

that you really want to get into,
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That's a really good course and it goes
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So I hope you enjoyed this video
and thank you for watching.