How to fix messed up topology?

[Clownsyay]

Hi All!

I’m brand new to Nomad and digital sculpting in general so I apologize if this is common knowledge.

Essentially it seems like I messed up some topology on my sculpt and its causing ridges/bumps that are unable to be smoothed or flattened. I’ve tried combinations of remeshing, smoothing, decimating, and even retopology in a program called instant meshes. No luck so far. I think I’ll just start the sculpt over, but is there a way to avoid this problem in the future? Thanks!

[stephomi]

Try to voxel remesh it (maybe without build multires), and then smooth it.
Smooth is sensitive to quad size, and voxel remesh ensures regular sized quads.

[Clownsyay]

Remeshing with a low resolution and smoothing seemed to help. I think I might have been making too many unnecessary subdivisions.

Thanks so much!!