How to start sculpting in Blender with a tablet 

F - size of a brush Ctrl+Alt+tablet draw - Viewport Zoom Shift+Alt+tablet draw - Viewport Move Alt+tablet draw - Viewport Rotate G - Grab Brush X - Draw Brush Shift+Space+1 - Draw Sharp Shift+Space+2 - Clay Strips I - Inflate Brush Shift+C - Crease Brush - pinch Shift+Space+G - Scrape Brush - hPolish M - Mask Brush Shift - Smooth Alt+M - Unmask All Ctrl+I - Invert Mask A - Mask Options Shift+A - Add mesh(Object mode) Ctrl+Space - Hide/Show Menus Ctrl+Tab - Change Sculpt/Object mode Shift+R - Remesh dencity change Ctrl+R - Remesh N - Opens side menu for Vire/Focal Length - 100

What the hell. This was the best tutorial ive done in my life. Thank you. I didnt even realize it was 45 minutes past till u said so. So informative. Also you just saved me from buying zbrush.

The fact you have less than 100 thousand subs should be a crime. I've been trying to get into blender sculpting for four years now and no tutorials have ever really helped me get as close as you did with this single video. It was the second head ever that i did in blender, and the very first one that actually looked halfly human. You are an absolute beast for making these videos so informative and easy to grasp. Thank you very much, from a begginer.

'x gonna give it to you' Hahah, but the way you said it out of nowhere and expresssion, made my day. Thanks for the video helped me a lot

As a Persian. I wanted to thank you. This was the best tutorial I've ever seen. I don't have access to international payment methods and I can't buy courses. This was so great. If i achieve any small success, it will be bc of you.

I've been trying to get into 3d sculpting for YEARS, maybe over a decade at this point and THIS is the tutorial that unlocked everything for me. Each beginning tutorial out there for 3d scuplting/blender either says "you can't really sculpt in Blender because Zbrush is so much better", which is so unhelpful, because as you said, they are not really comparable programs. Zbrush is a beast and does have a million other tools for sculpting and I'm sure it's a million times better, but it's not like Blender is without that capacity to start - and all I needed was that: a starting point. Meanwhile, every other Blender program out there starts off with 5 hours of extremely basic 3d modelling and interface familiarity -- which is important sure! But I've been an artist for decades now and I am familiar with creative software and have messed around with Blender enough to understand some of the basic functions. The slog of creating primitive models (often not even sculpts!!) and going through the functions that I don't really care for at the beginning (why introduce me to materials in the first 10 minutes?) when I really just want a digital analog for clay is so defeating. Anyways, this is a very long comment to say: THANK YOU. In the first literal 10 minutes of your video, you have enabled me to do exactly what I have been trying to achieve in 3d modelling in the past decade and have been stopped by inane walls of useless classes and information. I'm excited to continue my first actual functional sculpt with your walkthrough of controls and tools and I'm bookmarking the courses you linked as well!

11:55 in Blender 3.5 just press "r", without shift.

Hi from Ukraine.I saw thousand videos about sculpting and learn something new in every of them, but this is the first, where the sculpting show up so precicely and simple step by step. You are a perfect teacher dude.

Pro tip: Go to Edit > Preferences > Keymap and change "Spacebar Action" to "Tools". That way you can use just "Spacebar + " instead of "Shift + Spacebar + " for example "Spacebar + 1" for "Draw Sharp", "Spacebar + 2" for "Clay Strips" etc. The only thing that is going to be affected by this change is that now you will have to use "Shift + Spacebar" for Play/Pause. And if you had your "Spacebar Action" be "Search" for some reason, that is redundant because shortcut for search menu is "F3" anyways regardless of your "Spacebar Action" choice. Another thing, you can check while in "Keymap" preferences is "Tab for Pie Menu" in which case "Tab" would bring up pie menu for changing modes (object mode, edit mode, sculpting mode, etc.) rather tan just toggling between object and edit modes which is default. I hope this is helpful.

You’ve made this so digestible with so many pointers I haven’t heard anyone else explain so simply. Thanks!

LOL! "X gonna give it to yah." This was a wonderful Tutorial. Best one yet on sculpting I've seen, so detailed and descriptive. Thanks!

I have watched almost all the best gurus on blender sculpting tutorials but I have yet to do it myself. Everyone OVERWHELMED me especially on not just learning but most of all , REMEMBERING each tweak with every tool. I am simply amazed at how EASY sculpting on blender had to be ... following your style and techniques ... thanks a load.... after almost 5 years of TRYING ... I have finally learned the right way... the simpliest way.

my brother bought the "Female Anatomy for artists" for me. And I can say, This is the best course I ever seen! I'm your fan, Nikolay

Awesome video! You can also press f key to adjust the size of brush, I find it's a bit easier : )

I'm 5 minutes in and this is already the most helpful and clear tutorial I've found on sculpting in Blender. Thank you!

Amazing tutorial -- a great mix of knowledge and humor. You had me cracking up at the DMX reference with "X gonna give it to you" haha! Much appreciated man. Incredible work

Thank you for all your videos, I have learnt quite a lot. I like your jokes that randomly pop up when you are trying to explain things, helps me to not forget the point you were making.

You can press F to change the brush size with mouse/pen movements instead of doing it in steps with the [ and ] keys. Left Click to confirm, Right Click to cancel the change.

You can also assign the lower button of the pen to be middle-click instead of right-click in the pen tablet driver settings. This makes the "Emulate 3-Button Mouse" setting unnecessary and brings the experience a lot closer to how ZBrush works. The Wacom driver (and probably others as well) lets you do this per application, so there is no need to mess up your workflow in ZBrush to improve the workflow in Blender.

I'd also recommend ticking the "invert zoom direction" for the mouse so it work the same way it does in zbrush. There is also a setting for disabling auto perspective when rotating in orthographic view, so it doesn't switch to perspective each time you rotate

As someone who JUST started using blender I can't appreciate you enough. Thank you for all of your hard work!

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As a complete beginner to sculpting that has scoured youtube for guides and tutorials, this is by far the easiest to understand and descriptive one I have found that has made it far easier to understand and remember.

Wow! I can 3D model now. This will be relevant later. Thanks.

Thank you so much! This is my first time doing 3D- I was supppper scared, I made something awful but with confidance (and it won't stop me). Thank you, man!

You can switch between objects with alt+Q with the cursor on top of the object you want to switch to. It used to be the D key on older versions.

I’ve come back to this video several times and just want to say you are an amazing sculpter and more importantly a fantastic teacher!

Dream come true! Thank you.

seriously thank you for this. Ive been at blender for 5 days now and feel so much more accomplished due to your video.Thank you

You should do tutorials for sculpting details on base meshes and converting to normals. Most of such tutorials are done by people doing games. Your insight in character sculpting will teach us better.

I've been sort of doing blender sculpting as an on and off hobby over the years and the Shift+R shortcut frickin changed my life dude

This is hands down the best video available! I searched until I wanted to give up. Many people left out important details that made it impossible to follow along. How to smooth, how to change radius on the brushes, pressing x, etc. Thank you taking the time to share your knowledge with us.

This video is extremely helpful. By seeing how you do what you do, the order, the level of good/maybe before moving to the next thing, it lets me work on a different face and follow along very well.

Тъкмо се сдобих с таблет специялно за скулптура в Blender и не мога да опиша колко съм щастлив, че първият tutorial който гледам е направен от българин! Имате още един сигурен subscriber!!!

I'm starting to learn blender, and this is the best tutorial for sculping that I've found, very easy to understand, very clear. Thank you a lot!

Best tutorial and you have great audience in comments. Thanks a lot.

I've been locked into Zbrush for years. This video got me sculpting in Blender in a day. Thank you - love all your content and courses as well!

My man doing god's work Thank you so much for your effort man thats a huge early christmas gift

Even a year late it's still very informative. It really has all you need to start sculpting and I have to add that people in the comments contributed with some excellent tips as well.

This is really useful for someone who's learning how to sculpt humans. Thank you.

The most important thing i took away from this that even uni never mentioned was "squeeze as much resolution in your sculpting before remeshing". I never understood WHEN to go up, but this, sir, is golden. Thank you! :) Took years later for this aha-moment to click into place, but I'm glad i found it now than even later! Thank you again!

Subscribed because you explain blender way better than many others. Thank you!!!!

"it's just the way it is,... Things will never be the same😔" you're awesome great vid. I'm learning from this vid. Thanks a mil for creating this tutorial

just bought a one by wacom, and accidentally came across this video. Awesome!

very nice video you probably already know this by now but if you don't want to waste time resetting the focal length every time you start blender, simply open a new file, change the focal length to what you prefer, then FILE-> DEFAULTS -> SAVE STARTUP FILE (make sure you click on the confirmation message) now every time you open blender you have your focal length exactly as you want it PS. I have your intro to zbrush course and it's superb; safe to assume your blender character course will also be a must watch :-)

My first head looks like the head of a Cobra.. you make it look so easy. I guess after a few hundred hours ill get better. Must give props to Blender. It's the most intuitive 3d code out there for the money.

This was amazing to watch because you got the proportions down instantly and it was just fun watching the face emerge. Great!

Thank you! I managed to sculpt a pretty decent head in blender following your video! Never used Blender before 🙂

I did your character modeling tutorial on skillshare to start to finish and it was the best I've ever done. What a pleasure to find you again teaching blender! Top artist and teacher right there

i love the way you explain stuff. very entertaining

ok you are by far one of my fav sculptors. the best advice is to sculpt as much as possible in low poly. for some reason it works like magic!! thank you

Great tutorial. Finally someone who takes care of anatomy and name it :). The idea of starting with a (maybe even modeled) base mesh and working with deforming the base and remeshing is very underestimated in most of the videos about sculpting too. Sure we can make a squid by using the snake-hook but modeling it from a sphere and some cylinders and deforming and remeshing it afterwards brings much better organized meshes (which is important for animating them BTW) Maybe it would be a good idea to turn on the wire-frame to make this better topology visible. For hair there are particle systems in Blender - this could be a better choice than a grease pencil ;) if you need something less computing power consuming use hair-cards. Great and thanks again :))

finally! a blender tutorial. could you please make a tutorial on difference between Asian (single) eyelids and Cacuasian (double) eyelids.

This one was really needed you know ? Although I started in blender and the learning z brush , but in blender this video from a pro sculptor was really needed , And joy fact , I also use the same wacom model

You can set shift alt on your tablet key. Then whenever u want to change brush 🖌️ you'll press and hold the key and move your mouse on the brush you wanna choose. And it will pick it automatically after you let go of your tablet key. Simple

Best clear and micro-fine explanation with excellent practicing tips. I have learned more about Blender now...!! Thanks a lot!

This is the best blender tutorial ever

Thank you Sir! I can't wait to try this out. I'm downloading Blender now and Mixer. I have save you video to my playlist so I can come back.

your sense of humor is next level and skills as well. 😌😌

Not see it in the top comments so will just add that easy way to change size of the brush is pressing the "F" key. Also ctrl+F changed sharpness. ( that is from memory may be some other F combination ).

I totally didn't follow along with your tutorial. However, I liked the information you gave. I popped out with a cool looking dragon thing. I allowed it to come out of the clay much like Micheal Angelo came up with the statue of David. This is probably one of my new favorite things to do. I've been wanting to learn blender for a few years now. And I'm happy with my shaping right now. I'm sure this is nowhere near done. But I challenged myself to say whatever pops out I guess is what was in the clay. So, I didn't allow myself to undo anything. I mean scrap completely. Thanks for making a fun video.

Not even six minutes in and I’m already having a lot less trouble than I was before, thank you my man

Every time I watch your tutorials I'm blown away how you can make low poly models look so amazing. You can almost see details in that low poly mesh. When I try to do this it just looks like a blob 😅

Thank you so damn much. was ready to slit my throat with this program

I love you Nikolay! ♥️

This is so cool! I'm glad I stumbled upon this video, for years I was really afraid of Sculpting in Blender because at first glance it seems like it's not really made for sculpting. Plus, my pen tablet stopped working, so I had to deal with a mouse, but after watching this tutorial I'm not worried in the slightest. I'm actually amazed because blender is free and it has all these features. So thank you!!

This tutorial is just so awesome. I love your channel, it's super helpful (also, I really enjoy your sense of humour!)

Omg! I wish I could send my own head sculpt I made from watching your tutorial. It looks amazing and I’m just a beginner! I’m totally in love with your videos

professional spottteed omg. I knew from the first shape of head you are professional sculptorrr!

I listened with all my ears! Thanks!

The splash screen gives you the option to start a sculpt file. It changes the UI to a specialized sculpting layout. edit: I can see why you started with your own sculpting settings. The default sculpting file starts with really high poly count. I have a Wacom Intuos 5, and only needed to set the upper rocker switch to be RMB and lower rocker to be MMB. I swapped the default 3D viewport navigation so the MMB pans, and shift-MMB is the orbit, so it's more like the 2D view panes.

Wow! I totally forgot about Blender, thank God it's a standalone, the only way I can go on the internet with my computer is with the wifi hotspot on my smartphone that has a data limit so cloud based is out plus I don't like that idea to begin with, and I am done with subscriptions, the fact that Blender is open-source and free. Your tutorial is excellent, I will definitely be watching this video over again many times.

This is the best tutorial on sculpting that I have seen. I learnt a lot, thanks.

i love how niko fleshes out a basic head shape so easily

Very very good tutorial, I was completely lost before this video now I’m .. less lost haha Very pedagogic with a touch of humour. Best tuto ever

THIS is who you should learn sculpting from, someone who actually knows how to sculpt and has artistic knowledge, there so many other tutorials by people who are just straight up bad artists unlike you. great tutorial

I'm Excited! I've got into Zbrush a year ago, and your tutorials have helped me so much. I only recently started looking at blender for the hard surface modeling. It will be great to follow along again.

Maya keyboard shortcuts I recommend you, alt combination (alt+Lmb = Rotate, alt+mmb = pen, alt+rmb = zoom) Two buttons of the tabletpen

Hey guys, one helpful tip. Although this tutorial is super awesome, don't try to replicate what he's doing, because he's using reference. Instead try making a face and use all the shortcuts to get better sculpting. Using other references online helps to sculpt a face. Best Sculpting tutorial ever tho, thanks Speedchar!

you can also use F & Shift F for brush Size & Strength

"....your model will look like something from behind..." god dammit you crack me up niko while teaching me the most valuable stuff. Thank you!!

Fantastic tutorial, for blender users and for general 3d knowledge, thank you for your time.

This guy is low-key hilarious 😂

The other sculpting tutorials didn't mention the camera movement trick you opened with in Preferences, and I think you just saved me hours of frustration! Thank you! 😁

god bless you! the video is really useful ,thank you so much 💐

Awsoooooome.... Thnk you very very very much ! That's all i wanted ! I find it difficult to get videos about how to sculpt in Blender, than how to model. 4 me, the difference is if you can draw realistic or not. Then, here YOU show us how to sculpt exactly how we can draw. Thank you ! Un grand merci.

best tutorial on blender sculpting and i have scanned hundreds thank you speedchar

best tutorial period.

You can change the mesh you are working just by stopping your cursor on top of the mesh you want to work and press D

Teresa are some very nice things in this tutorial. Thank you. You definitely are a skilled artist, and my only concern was using the sphere instead of a cube for the base head.

Oh my gosh: breakthrough!! I've been having such a hard time feeling brave enough to get over the initial overwhelm of starting out and this video was SO helpful.

Thank you very much sir, your explain is very easy to know.

Beautiful tutorial. Thanks for starting me on my sculpting journey.

самый подробный гайд по скульптингу в интернете. не просто "вот эта кисточка вдавливает, вот эта вдавливает острее..."

The best tutor for sculpting in whole youtube channel😍

Oh my god so good explained thank you!!!!

I been following you for some time, and I am blender user...this is much appreciated.

You Very very professional artist scrupting

dialing up the viewport focal length is an important step. Because you're up close to the face all the time, the features get distorted and you end up with a chunky head and massive face. But on the other hand, orthographic view (numpad1) is too straight on and also distorts the face, making it look way too chunky and you make a skinny head and tiny face. Viewport FL 100 is a pretty good happy medium

total awesome - cheers from Brazil