Blender School - CGCookies Core: Sculpting 2 (Brush settings)

 

Digital Sculpting with Kent Trammell 
Lesson 2 & 3: Brush settings

Colour coding

Blue-tint icons are for the "additive" brushes. This is no longer applicable as Blender 4.3 made big changes to sculpting.

Blob: Create balls of clay on the surface.
Clay: Flatten and smoothen the surface.
Clap Strips: The main way to apply strips of clay (C).
Clay Thumb: Simulates the movement of a thumb over the clay.
Crease/Polish: Brush with a pinching effect
Crease Sharp: Much sharper and stronger than the crease brush.

Draw: No used much (by Kent).

Draw Sharp: Like Draw but with a sharper falloff.
Inflate/Deflate: = bulge or revert clay (I).

Layer: Create a layer of clay with a fixed depth on the surface.

Note: Invert brush:  Hold Ctrl.

Subtractive brushes

Fill/Deepen: Pushes surface to a flat plane

Flatten/Contrast: Pushes verts to an average height to create flat areas

Plateau: Locked orientation and depth to create a raised effect.
Scrape/Multiplate: Scrape the edge with two angled planes to create an effect,

Scrape/Fill: Common for filling or flattening. Great for rocky surfaces!

Smooth: Common for smoothing surfaces

Trim: Cut sections away