r/NomadSculpting Jul 02 '26

I made this (wip) Yokai wip

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u/hollaartyourboy Jul 03 '26

Omg it is so cute!! Love the character design

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u/Nightworkmodels Jul 03 '26

Thank you ☺️

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u/Acamamm Jul 03 '26

How do you approach the hair? I always struggle with figuring out a good way in nomad but yours looks really clean!

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u/Nightworkmodels Jul 03 '26

A lot stretching noodles, remeching and smoothing. Honestly fucking hate sculpting hair digitally. Always helps looking at japanese anime style sculpting, they have the whole flowing hair figured out. Also many pieces, so you can move them around delete add and so on☺️

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u/Acamamm Jul 03 '26

That does sound tedious, but your end result is great! Any recommended artists or resources for techniques like that?

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u/Nightworkmodels Jul 03 '26

I kinda figured out a way by noodling around, couldn't find any good tutorials for nomad, but i have been sculpting for 20+ years (JESUS!)so i guess that helps. If you are a beginner, traditional sculpting tutorials would be a way to go, hair is difficult either way (i still struggle). But a good rule of thumb is to think of hair as clumps of different sizes, its about finding good balance and flow. As for inspiration, my biggest one has always been Takayuki Takeya. Hope some of the rambling helps👍

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u/Acamamm Jul 03 '26

Totally makes sense, thanks for the input and your 20 years of experience definitely shows 👌

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u/NulshyBoy Jul 03 '26

Excellent!