Preparation.

I like to add bold hatch marks to highlight the more prominent features. This helps to get a quick grip on the contours while modeling. Save and open Lightwave’s modeler.

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The Task at Hand...

is a head. And not one of those slick, young catwalk heads with nothing but cheekbone to model. No, we’re diving headfirst in the deep-end. I found this interesting profile in a magazine and painted a gestural of it in Photoshop. As you can see, it offers all of those intimidating organic elements that you might not look forward to if you haven’t modeled them before: flesh, veins and wrinkles. After this tutorial, you’ll be modeling Cindy Crawford with wrinkles. It’s that much fun.