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Roy Nottage
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1yr
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Here for the ear! For this one I kinda wanted to get a suppleness across - which I don't think I really managed with the other features so far. Pretty happy with it overall, except for the back.
Struggled with the conch and the back + underside in general. Couldn't mentally relate the internal ear to the external shape of the conch. Although next time I would perhaps stick holes right through the clay early on to gauge the thickness of certain areas.
DANI DIKMAN
1yr
looks amazing !
Kay Neumann
1yr
Excellent!
Roy Nottage
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2yr
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Finally finished up the skull assignment. For reference imagery I was predominantly focusing on skull that I found on Pinterest. Although, the reference teeth didn't appear to be correct (?) - so looked at other reference for those. The teeth also took way longer than I was anticipating.
There was a lot of quite heavy revising, even late on, but overall I'm pretty happy with the outcome.
Ok, so I really should be cracking on with my next fresh assignments. But I thought I'd share where I ultimately took my skull model to. I will use this as a base for the face and neck muscles assignment.
I enjoyed this project far more for having started with real clay, felt like a real journey.
Roy Nottage
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2yr
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Life size mouth assignment. Decided to ignore the facial hair and focus on the facial forms. Not sure I pushed the dental mound out far enough. And it was tough getting inside the lips. Feel like my noses are getting better though 👃.
Lovely work Roy. I agree with your self-critique that the dental mound does not protrude enough, or perhaps the nose protrudes too far. I like the final smooth surface you achieve. Are you getting that just with tool work, or are you using oil or a solvent as well?
Roy Nottage
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2yr
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Did most of this assignment quite a while back, but got massively waylaid by other stuff. Went to finish it today, then remembered it was mostly just to sort out the excessive moustache... so I decided to leave it as is and post it. Move onto the next assignment... for the mouth - where moustache will attack again.
Roy Nottage
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2yr
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Pretty happy with the side profile overall, but front feels iffy. Think I extended too far out under the eyes, and eye shape and nose are bit off.
I definitely found it tricky to focus on a 'square' of the face, seemed somehow like proportions were harder to gauge.
Although chipping away at this in work lunch breaks meant I could move it forward, I think it would have benefited from sitting down and properly commiting to it for longer sessions.