Another sculpt is ready for you all, together with an stl file of the finished octopus.
all images in this post and the stl file are released under a creative commons license
CCBY 4.0 
An octopus is a fairly complicated creature to sculpt so I do some traditional modeling before sculpting. First the main body consisting of a large sphere, a cone and to small spheres.
I boolean them together and start smoothing out the connections between them.
this is a fairly quick process and the result is amazing.
I then make a new object consisting of 4 cubes, positioned at the base of each arm. I mirror the object and put on a subdivision surface. Then I extrude them. After extrusion, I boolean these to the main body.
then comes the detailing of all the little suctioncups and profiling the arms
this part takes a long time and i selectively hide part of the mesh during this process to be able to see what i am doing, and to not sculpt the wrong surfaces by mistake.
finally I placed it on a cylinder and fitted the arms around it as if it sits on top a pole.
I hope you liked this little walkthrough. If you are interested in improving on this model , or would just like to print it or use it for some of your own work, I have made the stl file available. Just click on the image below and it should start to download to your computer:
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