Sculpture Build Up #2 - Part 1: Gesture and Primary Forms Addressing Notes from V.1 - Sculpting thin through the torso, and even throughout. I also build the stand correctly this time too. I'll be moving on to the secondary forms later tonight, and will update this post with pics when I've got 'em.

Sculpture Build Up : Part 1 - Sculpting Thin Here's the armature at around 11 inches, (1" = 1 Cranial Unit) and the start of my build up in clay. My main goals were to get the armature built up and put on a stand, find the gesture of the pose, and add clay for the primary forms. I'll add more pictures as I finish out the primary forms and move on to the secondary forms in the next lesson.

I used a very thin wire for the size of the sculpture and also did not use an additional support which gives me problems as the mass of the sculpture increases..

Can you sculpt a baby

Somehow I missed that there was an assignment until I got a proko email. This was the first time I used the armature stand, and the threaded rod and I didn't get along. It ended up being too long and I wasn't able to move the spine, so I wasn't able to get as much gesture as I wanted. I wasn't going to submit anything because I wasn't happy with it. But the ghosts of instructors past started haunting me to remind me that submitting something is better than submitting nothing at all.

Here is my submission for "Building Out the Sculpture". I started with one of the PoseSpace figures with a Contrapposto pose that I liked, and then modified the pose in another software program to get a gesture that was "reaching" and somewhat more elongate. My original armature was a bit flimsy, so I added a right-angle pipe. I think I will change this to a hanging armature as you showed in your video. I prefer to be able to sculpt all around the figure without the armature poking through the figure's back. I was having some problems maintaining the correct proportions, even though my armature appeared accurate. So I temporarily superimposed some toothpicks over the form. Each toothpick was 2 heads in length. I would appreciate any critiques you can offer before I move on to filling out the form. Thanks Andrew.

I saw your video using aluminium foil for building an armature. I wanted to look at it again but can't find it. Can you help?

a study of a gesture based on a drawing by George Bridgman. I'm asking for Your critic Andrew.

Not sure if i made the rib cage wide enough. What do you think?

Andrew, I wasn't sure how far to take this one. Will there be a follow on lesson to bring this along a little farther? Anyway, let me know your thoughts. Hip are a little wide I think

the task is over. thank you for this lesson. do you have any comments ??

When will your next lesson be your amazing

Good lesson! Thanks!