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Stephen Rapp
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2yr
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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?
Stephen Rapp
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2yr
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?
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2yr
Hey that's looking great! For the mound of the mouth you can look at the early demos of my skull sculpting process or the video lessons on the simplified skull. I recommend "Brick in the yard mold supply" YouTube channel that goes over mold making techniques and materials. they are far more experienced with mold making than I am.
Stephen Rapp
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2yr
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?
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2yr
I have a big pot I've devoted to melting clay in and I melt down the clays on the stove to mix some medium and hard clay together. to keep it warm I'll use a blowdryer or a space heater facing inside the large pot where my clay is. that works pretty well. or putting the clay in the oven on a low temperature works too.
Roy Nottage
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2yr
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.
Stephen Rapp
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2yr
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.
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2yr
hey sorry to hear it fell! this is looking much better. I'm not sure if its the angle of the photo but it looks like the ear might be a little too far back and there's not enough cranial mass behind and slightly above the ear. that is where the thickest point of the skull should be from the front view. You're doing great and I'm glad to see you implementing the changes I mentioned. Keep it up!
Stephen Rapp
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2yr
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?
Stephen Rapp
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2yr
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.
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2yr
yeah so if you want a sculpture to be 24 inches tall then you would just divide it by 11.5 or 12 is easier and that means one cranial unit will be about 2 inches for the average person. remember that this will vary from person to person and if you're close on the measurements of the body you can make small adjustments with clay (making the head smaller or larger and things like that)
@yaranicol
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3yr
I made it?? This is my first sculpture, well… But i really Have fun. Thanks for the video and your amazing work ✨
Stephen Rapp
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2yr
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.