Day 4 of the "30 Portraits in 30 Days" challenge. This one is Savra, Queen of the Golgari -- another elf character from Ravnica. Normally, she has this big mess of hair, but after spending five hours making her face, I decided to skip the hair and call it a day. I can always go back and add it later.
As usual, I started with a polysphere in Blender and just sculpted out from that. I'd just watched Doris Fiebig's "Planes of the Face" tutorial, so I tried applying those techniques. The first time, I tried to sculpt a different face using the same planes that Doris showed in the tutorial, but it didn't work well, because the face had a different shape. This one is my second attempt. Here, I mostly just looked at the face and drew whatever planes I saw, using the clay strips, scrape, and crease brushes to create the planes. Creating planes that way started to feel pretty natural, and I think I like it as a method of sculpting.
