Before We Begin...
About the Lesson
This is an hour long lesson by Vertex Workshop instructor Evan Gintsiak. This lesson is an excerpt from his "Fantasy Character Portraits" workshop where Evan walks students through how to create a fantasy character portrait from start to finish in live online lessons.
In this excerpt, he will be teaching you how to texture skin in Zbrush.
Recommendations
- Have a notebook and pen available to take notes
- Silence your cell-phone, and disconnect from any distractions
- Apply what you learn here to your current project! The quicker you use what you learn here, the better you will retain the knowledge.


About the Instructor
Evan Gintsiak is a 3D Character artist from Tel Aviv, Israel. He is currently working as the head of the 3D department at DataGen Tech.
Evan started his journey as a generalist in the Israeli animation industry, mostly for smaller, local animation studios. After a couple of years, he moved to the tech sector.
Evan is a self taught 3D artist. However, he has a game development Diploma from IAC (Israeli Animation College), where they had a short 3DS Max introductory course. Evan fell in love with 3D and continued to practice 3D at home.