Sculpting Dreadlocks

[misterjustin]

I\'m looking for tips and/or tutorials on sculpting dreads. I have a custom order to take care of but I\'m not sure where to start on this.

Thanks.

 

[emopainterguy]

One way to do it would be to roll each dread seperately and texture them by lightly rolling them on a fine grade sand paper. Never done it. Never seen it done. Just the first thing I thought of. Hope that helps, or gets the ball rolling.

 

[Dark Seraphim]

Take a look at this Avatar:

Avatar with Dreds

He really did the Dreads on that guy well. Basicaly it looks like he made some greenstuff cylinders and added them, then painted the lines after.

 

[emopainterguy]

Make sure to look at pictures of people with real dreadlocks. As nice as that Avatar is, and as good as those \"dreads\" look, I don\'t think that they really look like dreads. I don\'t think I\'ve seen dreads like that, and I know mine never looked like that.

 

[Dark Seraphim]

True, but I have no idea what he is looking for Realistic style? Look at pictures like:

or

or even

 

[angus147258]

Just aply thin sausages of greenstuff to the place you wnant them and with a sculpting tool smooth and shap them.

 

[misterjustin]

Originally posted by emopainterguy
One way to do it would be to roll each dread seperately and texture them by lightly rolling them on a fine grade sand paper. Never done it. Never seen it done. Just the first thing I thought of. Hope that helps, or gets the ball rolling.

I think this one is exactly what I was thinking of. The tubes of green stuff was obvious, of course, it was the texture idea I was lacking. Sandpaper. PERFECT!

Hopefully I remember to post about how it goes.

 

[DaN]

Spooky - I was going to sculpt some dreads on a figure of mine, but decided against it as I was using milliput for the first time (I think green stuff would be better suited)

Also - I agree with the Avatar - the dreads look cool - but they look more like the Predator dreads that Mr. Marley

Maybe another way would be actually incorporate a little cotton wool or something into the green stuff...? (Although I don\'t know if this would affect consistency) ... :/

Please let me know (Message me) if and when you get this done as I would like to see the result

Regards,
DaN