Brush

My girls brush again is modelled in Maya:

 

The front and back having different topology to allow me to sculpt my horse on the back of it.

 

I decided to make it like a babies brush with soft hairs.

 

And I learnt a very simple technique from this tutorial:

3d_molier (2011) maya paint brush v1 Turbosquid Available at <http://www.turbosquid.com/3d-models/maya-paint-brush-v1/601212> Accessed 12th November 2012

 This is my version of the brush:

with the Uv's

This is my high poly sculpt.

Here i is my high poly baked onto the low poly model without the tangent space normals settings.

my bristles:

I also managed to get a specular map on the handle for finger prints and such.