The final sculpt:

I began making loops around the mouth, nose, horns and joints, being mindful of the other loops and how they would connect. I connected them with planes, keeping everything as low-poly as possible.

I realised the biggest problem would be connecting the neck to the head. Since the head had more polys than the body, I wasn’t sure how to connect the two without lots of loop-cutting, which would make the body unnecessarily complex.

This was my first attempt:

I talked to Henry about this version of the retopology, and he made a few suggestions – namely that I should try adding a mask shape to the creature’s face. I had forgone the typical mask shape as my sculpt did not have eyes, but it definitely helped.

Finished neck:

Final product:

Overall, this process was much easier (and went much faster!) than my last attempt at retopology, a year ago.