Using Mask Extract to make a shirt

There are several ways to create clothing for our sculptures. One of the easiest ways to begin the clothing creation process is through a mask extraction. This will allow us to create a mask with the mask tools and then duplicate the masked area into a separate object. The benefit of this is that we can create the clothing as a separate object that is easier to work with. The shape of the duplicate object will already fit the form of the original sculpture, giving us an excellent starting point.

Getting ready

For this section, we can pick up where we left off in the Making earrings section of this chapter. If you have not completed that section, you can begin this section with a fresh copy of the womanAccessories_Start.blend file, which you can download here: https://github.com/PacktPublishing/Sculpting-the-Blender-Way/blob/main/Chapter08/womanAccessories_Start.blend.

Launch Blender and open the .blend file. You will be able to follow along...