Quite a few things starting or coming to fruition at the mo, first off I’ve started an evening class on sculpting the human form in clay. While I have done this sort of thing before, most of my stuff tends to be monsters and aliens, or a sculpture that’s going to be molded in rubber, so I seldom just do pure sculpture.
Consequently doing the human form is one of those things that I consider myself to be weakest at. It’s actually very difficult to get it looking right. While I understand the proportionality (generally males are 8 ‘head heights’ – their total height is 8 x the height of their head – females are more often 7 head heights for example) putting it into practice is another matter.
Most of the figures I’ve sculpted have had some form of proportionality problem and I’ve never actually had any real formal tuition in it. We did life drawing at university which is very similar to the class I’m doing now, but it was purely drawing, no sculpture.
So anyway I spent three hours on mondy evening sculpting a naked geezer along with 15 other people! Here’s a pic. This is actually the second sculpture we did in the evening and took about an hour and half. This is pretty quick – I usually spend weeks on sculptures! I think they’re just trying to get us to observe the form of the model at first rather than getting into the nitty gritty of sculpture. Apparently we’ll be doing a life sized head and a figure sculpture over the next ten weeks.
We used a slightly different method which I wasn’t used to – sculpting the figure down from a block of clay. I usually build a metal armature and slowly build up the figure, I guess there wasn’t time to do that in the class though.
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