Cleaving off flat sections with the Line Project tool

Sculpting is usually used to create organic models such as humans, creatures, faces, hands, and other shapes that have smooth surfaces. However, it can still be useful in creating hard surfaces with our sculpting tools. One particular example is the bottom edge of the bust of a character. In classic bust sculptures, the bottom edge is usually a perfectly sharp cleaved-off section that would be difficult to achieve with our sculpting brushes.

In this section, we'll use a sculpting tool called the Line Project tool to try cleaving off a flat section of a sculpture.

Getting ready

We're going to use the oldMonk.blend example file again. We can either pick up where we left off in the previous section of this chapter, or you can download the file here: https://github.com/PacktPublishing/Sculpting-the-Blender-Way/blob/main/Chapter06/oldMonk.blend.

Open the oldMonk.blend file and we'll be ready to try the Line...