How to Sculpt the Ear

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How to Sculpt the Ear

Lesson by

Andrew Joseph Keith

in Portrait Sculpting

13K

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Sculpt a life size ear study!

You can use your own ear for reference or ask a friend, just make sure to get lots of angles.

Cesar Barcenas

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19d

The ear in my process is important, from there I assemble the face and the occipital

Eric Lee

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27d

THe ear is a little larger than life size. I found it is hard to smooth the sculpture on this scale.

Andrew Joseph Keith

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24d

Hey nicely done! the forms are looking good! A suggestion I might have is taking a tool for smoothing and running it across the forms (not along the forms) to smooth the ear. I think this is great so far so keep up the great work!

dalleen jackson

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5mo

Ive been wearing these ears for decades and had no idea I had such a big ear lobe! So, how did I do?

Andrew Joseph Keith

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5mo

Nicely done! a great study! If I had to give a critique It looks like it might be a little flat (though I haven't seen the references and some people do have flatter ears) but pulling some of the features out in space might help make the ear feel more natural. Keep it up!

SilverbackCT

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10mo

Life sized ear. SketchFab 3D Photogrammetry scan of the clay model. (https://skfb.ly/oR97K)

DANI DIKMAN

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1yr

Andrew Joseph Keith

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1yr

nicely done ear! Great to see that you're making progress on the assignments. The only critique might be to pay attention to the transitions between the forms of the ear and where those transitions are sharp and where they are soft. more subtlety will help for a more life like feel in the sculpt. Great job!

Roy Nottage

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1yr

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.