Hair Week 01 - IMM Brush

This week I set out to create my own IMM brush for making Persephone's hair more true to the actual texture of Black hair. I used Bangalore as reference as well as other real world models. I created 5 variants of curls for a drag-based IMM brush which you can see here.



From there, I referenced the brushes made by Dave Hansen on artstation (https://www.artstation.com/marketplace/p/yVvl/zbrush-stylized-curls-brush) which were sent to me by Eva (thanks so much!!) in order to toy around with making my own IMM curve brush. From what I could tell, it seemed like he used multiple helixes with different thicknesses and z-offsets, in order to make dual strand combinations. I used this brush in order to be a "gap filler" to give a solid base to drag the more unique curls on top of, giving depth and uniqueness to the hair.



From here, I wanted to test the brushes that I made and modified, and I've been thinking about trying to work ahead of schedule on this project and following ones to give myself extra time for the final assignment. With that in mind, I began to lay down strands and curls onto the original Mesh that I made for Persephone's hair.

Here is the original.


And here is with the first pass of curls, with no sculpting detail aside from a couple of divisions.



This is only the front chunk of her hair, and I am quaking even THINKING about Retopping this.... but things are looking promising, indeed.