My second gesture study. I've tried to add more volume to the limbs this time and to also follow the proportions more closely. The clay was too soft and the sculpture kissed the ground a few times. It's hard to add details and not smudge what's already there. I've, hopefully, built some lasting anchors for the feet, but time will tell :) What can I do to keep 11.5 inches sculptures standing up if I don't have an armature stand yet? I want the "scaffolding" be hidden.

Probably a gesture study taken too far. I decided to skip ahead and to try and finish this one (11.5 inches) as much as possible, but I've started seeing too many mistakes in the proportions, so decided to call it "done". It took quite a lot of time for a second scupture, so moving on to trying out a few 6 inch gestures.

My first sculpt. The clay I'm using is too soft and sticky to allow for details, I didn't make the bean small enough and the hard aluminum foil was getting in the way, I eye-balled the proportions (which mostly worked), the pose is not the correct tilt and a lot more mistakes I can see, but decided to move on and leave it as it is. It's fun to see how drawing, rudimendary anathomy knowledge and 3d modelling come together to help with sculpturing. For tools, I picked.. tooth picks :D, because the limbs were not holding on, a lot of aluminum foil for the bean, and.. a knife, just because it was in the video, but didn't need to use it except for drawing center lines.