Building in the secondary forms

After making a blockout, a common beginner mistake is to skip right to…sculpting fine details.…Let's face it, sculpting all the little wrinkles and bumps on a character is…fun, but before you get to that stage there are secondary forms to create.…If you sculpt fine details directly on to the basic blockout, the result…will lack structure.…Let's look at some techniques that I use for getting good secondary forms.…Just like the overall character is made up of about three to seven major shapes.…Each of those shapes is going to be made up of about three to seven smaller shapes.…

The wings, the tail feathers, the head with its beak and the helmet, all have…smaller shapes within them.…So I'm just going to show you a few techniques that I'm going to use to get the…intermediate shapes created.…For example on the head it's got a really blocked-off shape, so I'm just going…to go in with Crease, set to inverted, and just kind of sculpt harder edges into it.…Same for the beak; I'm going to use the Grab tool and just try to get the…