This is way harder than I was expecting

[Yee]

Some progress on the anime character from the new Blender Anime Character course. I spent like 30 minutes on the ears for them to look awful, hoping the hair can cover some of those nasty, nasty details.

[NP5]

Yes ears are awkward. I played with ears to show someone recently.

OMG -3 weeks to make ears, lol! xxx

You can model instead of sculpt. Or start with a modelled ear then fine tune it in sculpting. Modelled flat to lay out topography to the shape. Then verts moved to make the depth. Subdiv for smoothing and then more tweaking. Probably need more on the head connecting side but I was only playing. [Ear toppology1] [Ear toppology2] [Ear toppology3] Simple modeling no sculpting.

Probably too real human for anime aliens.

[Yee]

Yeah, a little too realistic for anime characters and I think those ears have way more tris than the whole head of my model

I did something wrong, I don’t know what I did, but all my ears’ topology is off, there are triangles all over when there shouldn’t be any, and faces inside the ear, I have no idea how I extruded that but it caused a mess… agh… I’ll have to restart the ear… This is why I hate/love modeling, is so satisfying when it looks the way I want, but the slightest mistake costs hours of work.