ZbrushGuides – Creature Textures and Skin Brushes

A collection of 50 custom brushes for ZBrush 2021.5.1 (or above) to detail, texture and refine surfaces for creatures. Included in this pack, there are 39 sculpting brushes and 11 alpha-based (DragRect) details.

Why this pack?

If you follow some of my work online, you’ll probably know that making creatures and ‘other-worldly’ characters is a passion of mine.

Usually, when I work on new projects I end up building custom assets, like a brush, to help me speed up the process. This is especially true when creating a concept for a creature, in fact, I usually do more than one custom brush. If the brush gives me some good results I save it into my library of custom assets.

This pack is basically a more refined compilation of my ‘top creature brushes’ that I’ve made for different projects to help me detail creature surfaces and skin.

I hope they will be useful for you too!

The brushes in this pack

The Creature Texture and Skin brushes pack comes with 50 brushes that have been created with the specific purpose of helping detail your models in ZBrush. These brushes simplify the process of adding intricate and high-frequency details for ‘organic creatures’ and can also be tweaked, using ‘Alt’ to invert the effect, for instance, to produce a variety of effects.

Different brushes have different behaviour and ways that you can apply the effect (refer to Quick start guide in the PDF) but to get the most out of this brushes, the best thing is to combine them!

What to expect?

The brushes in this pack will help you create a wide range of texture and skin details for a creature. You can extend the variation of the effects of the brushes, just by inverting the effect of the brush (holding ‘Alt’ while sculpting) as well as combining multiple brushes.

The sculpting brushes are actually really fun to play with and you can also use them as ‘discovery brushes’… basically taking advantage of the patterns and suggestions from the effect of the brushes to continue the refinement process with other brushes of the pack

What’s in the pack?

1. A collection of 50 Custom brushes (.ZBP files) to detail creatures. (all brushes were created with  ZBrush 2021.5.1)

2. A Quick Start Guide in PDF format, with a short description of the different brushes and tips on how to use them.

3. A quick start video reference tutorial (1 hour) showing you a practical example of the some of the brushes, workflow and a few other tips and tricks for detailing surfaces (you can also watch the tutorial in this page below).