Sherif Dawoud, whom you may know for many things, including incredible sculpting work, has published a quick video sharing his step-by-step process for painting in ZBrush. In the tutorial, he uses a custom material available here, but it's not necessary to follow along to achieve a realistic and natural-looking sculpt like that.

He also mentioned he's working on more tutorials over the next few weeks, so if you have any feedback or there's something specific you want him to cover, feel free to let him know. We just shared his polypainting tutorial for hands, and there are a few more similar ones he's recently published:

Last year, we had a chance to talk to Sherif Dawoud about how the industry has changed over the past decade and his thoughts on it.

If you're interested in character art and polypainting in ZBrush, we have plenty of great interviews with artists like Javier Benver, Quentin Moulinneuf, or Felipe Oliveira:

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