A little preview of the tutorial I released yesterday showing what the content is. I guess just the screenshot and video description were a little confusing. Hopefully this helps clarify what I am covering in this lesson.

I have PTSD from doing this exact workflow

Me too. Also from explaining it a million times over many years, thus the tutorial hahahaha.

Amazing video, thanks for sharing! I found really interesting why you are using the deform brush + spy stroke instead of the standard or clay brush with some alpha and color spy stroke, is there any reason or just pure preference? :O

I like to use deform brush with noise and heightmaps since it interacts with them very clean. There is no real style to it, it just pushes or pulls the height. But any brush can work, standard brush is almost the same thing. So just preference, there are no rules. Experiment and you can probably find a better combo!

Does the tutorial includes custom brushes and custom matcaps?

I included the brushes that I used yes. None of the matcaps are custom though besides the rasculpting mat which is already on the internet. If you can’t find it let me know I will send it to you.