10 Marketplace Tutorials for Creating Better Faces
The ArtStation Marketplace has an amazing selection of tutorials when it comes to faces. Whether your bag is traditional portraits or modeling 3D characters, everyone can find something useful in this list. So much of a character’s qualities and personality are carried in the face so it’s important to get it right.
Portrait Painting – Full video process + Brushes
By Le Vuong
This tutorial by Le Vuong will not only give you the video of the full portrait painting process but also includes the brushes you’ll need to follow along.
Painting facial features: Nose
By Naranbaatar Ganbold
Naranbaatar Ganbold 4 part tutorial will take you through painting noses; Nose structure, line demo, value demo and finally the color demo. Don’t need help with noses? Check out Naranbaatar‘s other courses in the same “Painting Facial Features” series for other helpful tutorials.
Zbrush – Face Details VDM Brush
By Nicolas Swijngedau
Nicolas Swijngedau has you covered if you need to speed up character creation or to quickly age humans! For ease of use, all brushes are named based on their position on the face for easier use.
Head Front Planes Made Easy for Portraits and Character Design
By Chris Petrocchi
The reason why people struggle with drawing faces is that they haven’t mastered the basic structure of the head. In Chris Petrocchi‘s 1 hour long tutorial, a unique approach is taken that combines both planes and rhythms into one powerful force multiplier that is easy to understand.
5-3D Hair Brushes+Video Tutorial
By Milad Kambari’s
Milad Kambari’s 1-hour video tutorial guides you on how to create your own hair brush by creating your own personal tillable model or your own personal alpha to create the look that you need. The tutorial is accompanied by 5 hair brushes you can use. Artist credit: Reza Sedghi
MOUTHS – 40 ZBrush VDMs + 5 bonus variations
By Bernhard van der Horst
Bernhard van der Horst provides 40 Zbrush VDM mouths & maws plus 5 bonus variations. High detail mouths of all sorts to concept with, augment existing sculpts or kickstart a new creature.
Portrait Painting in Photoshop – Video Tutorial
By Yaşar VURDEM
Learn how to paint realistic portraits. Get Yaşar VURDEM’s full-length video with voice-over descriptions ( 1 hour ). In addition get Vurdem’s portrait brushes and bonus illustrations.
Realistic Eyes for Games – Marmoset Render
By Peter Zoppi
Peter Zoppi‘s tutorial will take you through creating and rendering realistic eyes for video games from start to finish. It will cover some theory at the start by analyzing reference and looking at eye anatomy to decide on the specific traits of the eyeball that we need to accurately create.
Facial Expressions
By Anthony Jones
Anthony Jones’s 40 minute video tutorial covers how to take simple ideas like a smiley face and turn that into an actual face that is smiling. Gain basic understanding of the structure of a face and rendering the face.
Portrait composition
By Svetlana Tigai
Svetlana Tigai‘s tutorial is available in both English and Russian. In it, she shows how her creative process usually goes. She covers the topics of face, hair, dress and portrait composition in general.
