Creating the large forms of the head with the Grab brush

Let's start by creating the main shape for a human head. This is an excellent time to introduce the Grab brush. In the Discovering the limitations of the basic sculpting mode section of Chapter 2, Overview of Blender's Sculpting Workflows, we tried out the Snake Hook brush, which let us pull around major forms of the model. The Grab brush is very similar, but it is less aggressive, and it does not taper in the same way.

When used with a large radius, the Grab brush is excellent for moving around the large shapes of our sculpture, which allows us to completely reshape the model. If we run the Voxel Remesher frequently in our sculpting workflow, we can turn the default sphere into nearly any shape we want. The Grab brush is the go-to method for most artists when beginning a sculpture, so we will start our character head using this brush.

Getting ready

Launch Blender, and then start a new project using the sculpting...