My first skull and in fact my first sculpture of any worth, was a daunting challenge indeed. I put in long hours over days of distractions and kept coming back again and again. I have a life-size skull I bought to model with and this is kind of a hybrid of your and my thick skull. I’m having to call, “Hold” and move on to the next lessons. I will come back to this one for many weeks. It’s been fascinating and obsessive. Will start over on the mouth. I’m still exploring texture. Right now I’m kinda thumb finish, except for my fat fingers wont reach. Which lesson speaks the most to the Mouth Mound basics? Where can I get simple information for mould making and casting?

My first skull and in fact my first sculpture of any worth, was a daunting challenge indeed. I put in long hours over days of distractions and kept coming back again and again. I have a life-size skull I bought to model with and this is kind of a hybrid of your and my thick skull. I’m having to call, “Hold” and move on to the next lessons. I will come back to this one for many weeks. It’s been fascinating and obsessive. Will start over on the mouth. I’m still exploring texture. Right now I’m kinda thumb finish, except for my fat fingers wont reach. Which lesson speaks the most to the Mouth Mound basics? Where can I get simple information for mould making and casting?

I really have enjoyed these Skull lessons. I feel like I did pretty good. I’m always glad when you give your time requirement to do the assignment. I don’t feel so bad after many hours still trying to get it right. I’m determined to learn the anatomy names. One skill that has gained my attention is determining the “Outline.” I find it interesting that, the was the first lesson when we did the pancake profile. Little did I know how important seeing outline is. This was also the first lesson that introduced me to some tools. They all seemed like mysteries at the beginning. I’m gonna finish the teeth and move on to Skull 3 I prefer the nature of the lessons as they are. I like lots of information the I’m learning. I learn a lot from your asides. Which reminds me.. How do you warm your clay and how do you mix medium and hard?

Re feedback on amount of information, I thought it was a good length and pace. Was able to sculpt alongside the demo without missing stuff or having to pause, etc.

Any corrections at this point?

I put another hour and a half. I see what you mean. The subtleties of it all are very daunting. Got his photo seconds before it fell to the floor on his face.

It took me over 7 hours to finish this head. I call it the, Case of the ever-expanding head. It was like whack amole Again sizing has been the issue in my learning. The top of the head the back of the head the fore head were difficult to nail down.Learning about planes and dynamic planeshas been very enlightening. In painting you don't have the 3 dimensional thus in sculpture symmetry becomes uber important. But more important is how factional a change can fix a problem. Having been use to portraiture, I’ve come to love the identity of the subject... This lesson has been generic man whose final dimensions are arbitrary to a point. ? How do you keep tools from clogging?

The has been a great task. One question I have is: Let's say you have a maquette that has to be 24" exact. It seems you would calculate proportions to head size. The head seems to grow fro a the Loomis simple stucture.The example here is the forehead that grew in size. The other thing is I'm glad you tell how long it takes you. Sometimes I feel really slow. But I'm really picky.. Also I took to heart your butter knife recommend. I hit the local thrift store and hit the jackpot.

I made it?? This is my first sculpture, well… But i really Have fun. Thanks for the video and your amazing work ✨

To begin this craft I zeroed in on the Loomis Head in clay as an introduction to portrait sculpting. It took me a couple of weeks to get the money for a course I wanted to take so while I waited I took advantage of all the free tutorials I could from AJ Keith. All I did was make Loomis heads over and over. I wanted to really get it. I’m closer.