How to retopologize shoulders

Before getting up to the shoulder, we have to extrude our wrist up to the elbow, then to the shoulder, just like our fingers. You can see the arms extruded and with loop cuts in Figure 6.28.

Figure 6.28 – Arms with loop cuts

Now we can start on our shoulder. Just like our face and hand, we are going to start by laying out some guiding lines. Figure 6.29 shows the lines laid out for the shoulder.

Figure 6.29 – Shoulder with guiding lines

And like the areas of detail before, we just need to fill these in, as in Figure 6.30.

Figure 6.30 – Shoulder filled in with faces

With the shoulders roughed out, we can bring the neck down to the shoulders. For this model, I simply adjusted the loops on the collarbone to match the loops on the neck and did a straight connection, as shown in Figure 6.31.

Figure 6.31 – Head, shoulders...