It's been a while since the last time I shared my 3D modelling process of some of my creations with you. So I think I'll do that again now, and this time it's my best sculpt January entry so far.

I'll be honest here I didn't know what Jekyll and Hyde was exactly and if not for this challenge I think I'll never know. Or maybe later. What I ended up create is not Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde in particular, rather the two personalities that represent said characters. That is because I understand what the theme is about when I saw some of the participants' entries.

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#SculptJanuary19 Day 8 | Jekyll & Hyde

Some interesting sculptures that helped me understood the theme is a teddy bear, half cute and half monstrous. Or a sheep looking to the mirror, but he is a wolf in the reflection. Pretty creative take on the theme, the latter one. While you can create the two characters from the novel, you can also create things that represents two personalities of good and evil. And this is my Jekyll & Hyde sculpture.

Sculpting

While it is recommended to start by poly model the base head shape for easier sculpting time, I've grown too fond of sculpting right away with a sphere from a subdivided cube. Pull down the chin, define the shape of the jawline and the head using the grab brush and I have my starting head.

I usually start with the nose to foresee the face, but this time I started with the eye sockets, then the nose to the eyebrows, then the mouth. Of course, whenever I do this the result may stray a little from the defined facial feature positions.

I was going to create Dr Jekyll first, but then the idea of the final scene came to mind and I re-shape the overall head and face to look more menacing, but he look funny at the moment. I probably have to start using reference so I don't get lost in the dark in the 3d modelling process.

I figured to look more menacing instead of looking like a clown I removed the smile and...

Bam! Made him show his teeth with the wide smile. The hair makes him look like the Green Goblin when seen from the side like that. As you can see I started to go into the smaller detail in this stage.

Second Sculpt

I sculpted Jekyll's face, or rather, the good personality face because that's not how Dr Jekyll look like. Then I had to export it as .obj file and made the slice in Blender 2.79 because 2.8 don't have the BoolTool addon yet. Then imported it back to 2.8. Did a little more sculpting on the sliced edges for a more natural 'break' look instead of clean slice look.

EEVEE Lighting

The one on the left is the real-time render preview in Eevee. After adding some more details--the bowtie and the monocle, and the mask shards--I decided to create the teeth all fangs and the eyes glow purple and, boy, do I really like how it look. What are those messy tangled stuff on the right, you may ask? Those are the lamps, a bunch of area lights for the, well, lighting.

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And that is how my version of Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde was made. Took me 11 hours to create this, including the falling asleep on my laptop.

I made two versions: one with the top hat and the other without it, because it looks so scene symmetry-breaking and it bothered me a lot.

Let me know what you think in the comment section. Criticism are always welcome. I have another sculpture I want to share, something that certain spider around here asked me to do months ago (sorry about that). Probably with or without the step-by-step process, but, we'll see. Thanks for stopping by and I'll see you in the next one~

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