sculpting and retopology 101

Jellymeyer writes:

Hi Blender folks. I’ll admit that I was reluctant to even try post this to BlenderNation but It seems to have gotten some attention from youtube. I recently made a couple of tutorials on Sculpting and retopo-ing a simple candle. I have a hunch that it’s because a lot of people aren’t really sure why they’d want to retopo something in the first place.

This tutorial is about actually sculpting the candle which is very simple:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sfw5UrzgeCQ

And here is the video covering re-topology:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=07ZktmyC4AY