This image is created for the CGArena challenge themed “Beautiful” and I won the second prize for this image. Thanks for all the sponsors and CGArena. The concept was to show a rough stone statue in a cold autumn environment. The statue represents a mother breast feeding and where the baby's mouth touches the breast, the stone becomes warm flesh, showing love and humanity. I had my first baby 18 months ago and for me the image of his mother breast feeding was of an absolute beauty! I'm using Lightwave and Modo for all my modeling.
Modeling of the Mother
I generally like to start with the eye. I use a sphere in the background layer as a template to build up the eye socket. It helps me in getting the right shape.
Then I extend the edges or vertex to create the main polyflow of the face. I use pictures as a reference, sometimes in the background or just opened in a viewer aside. Then I fill the gaps and spin the poly’s to keep a proper poly flow.
After tweaking the points and adding loops, the face starts looking Ok.
The ear is a tricky part. I used a picture in the background. I also found a picture of a template used to make prosthetics that helped me understanding the layout of the ear. The main lines are built from the picture.
Like for the face, I fill the gaps between those poly’s and model the shape by pulling the points, poly and edges.
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