Hiker

I created this sculpting/render for an article I wrote recently for the German magazine Digital Production (http://www.digitalproduction.com/). It is about "Sculpting in Blender" and released in Issue 01/17. Also, you can see this render on the cover of the magazine. What you see in the finale render is a 100% dyntopo sculpting done in Blender. Texturing and shading was done using Vertex Painting and procedural textures. That means for the final piece I didn't needed to do retopology or uv mapping.

For the Sketchfab model I just reduced the poly count with the decimate modifier and created a simple uv map using smart uv project. After that, I backed the vertex color into a texture. The whole process feels a bit like real sculpting and hand painting the model. For this sculpting I tried the Blender addon “Speed Sculpt” the first time (https://gumroad.com/l/SpeedSculpt), great tool!