--- title: Creating a Stylized 3D Character in a 2D-Illustrated... description: Freelance character artist David Papunashvili walks through his workflow for the Punk Knight personal project, which recreates a 2D illustration as a stylized... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/creating-a-stylized-3d-character-in-a-2d-illustrated-look-with-zbrush-4tocbpz5m twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Creating a Stylized 3D Character in a 2D-Illustrated Look with ZBrush | daily.dev og:description: Freelance character artist David Papunashvili walks through his workflow for the Punk Knight personal project, which recreates a 2D illustration as a stylized... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/creating-a-stylized-3d-character-in-a-2d-illustrated-look-with-zbrush-4tocbpz5m og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/4tOCBPZ5M.png og:image:alt: Creating a Stylized 3D Character in a 2D-Illustrated Look with ZBrush og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Creating a Stylized 3D Character in a 2D-Illustrated Look with ZBrush **[80 LEVEL](https://daily.dev/sources/80lv)** · 7 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Freelance character artist David Papunashvili walks through his workflow for the Punk Knight personal project, which recreates a 2D illustration as a stylized 3D character entirely inside ZBrush. He covers using Spotlight to project the 2D concept onto the sculpt for reference and color matching, setting up Flat Color materials before sculpting, modeling techniques including hair with Bend Curve, PolyPaint brush setup and painting tips, hand-crafted line art using DynaMesh and Inflate/SnakeHook brushes, and rendering directly in ZBrush with anti-aliasing considerations. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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