Portrait Sculpting
Profile Pancakes
Block Ins
Secondary Forms of Head
The Skull
Muscles & Fat Pads
The Eyes
The Nose
The Mouth
The Ears
The Hair
Armatures
Sculpting the Portrait
Bonus Lessons
Join me as I take a look at profile pancake assignments submitted by students like you! I'll point out what's working well, and offer tips and pointers to try on your next profile pancake.
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Dominique
10mo
Another pancake before starting the next lessons. Any advice?
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10mo
Great job! well done! the angle of the head might be looking more up than in the photo and the eye socket could use more depth but its a great start! Keep going with the assignments!
Dominique
10mo
Hello Andrew,
just started the courses. Enjoying doing those pancakes. Do you have please any comments of the 2 projects?
I used the same samples from the videos to make it easier and faster. Doing more now….
The man project was done within 30 minutes.
The woman project much longer. I wanted to see if I could add more details even if it isn’t really the purpose of those pancakes.
Thanks for the courses.
Dominique.
Sorry I posted the same message in the wrong lesson Biden head…
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10mo
looking good! I actually like the male portrait because it feels like it has more character and depth of the forms. It seems like you might have lost some of that working the details of the female portrait. Both a great though and I look forward to seeing more of your work!
Roy Nottage
2yr
Hey Andrew, thanks for all the great feedback! And for covering so many.
It does seem like a great exercise to try as a warm up / to familiarise with a person's face, before tackling a larger likeness of that person.
Out of interest, do you ever do much in the way of 'front view' pancakes? Appreciate the profile probably offers more information as a basis for establishing the main proportions for likeness, but wondered if there was anything unique to learn from doing the front (or if it just presents more challenges). Perhaps an insight into a person's a-symmetry.
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2yr
so when beginners start sculpting they usually want to start from the front but the problem with that is it's almost impossible to judge the depths of the facial features when observing someone from the front view. the profile is much more important to establish first and then when that is accurate we can move to the front view. You could try to do something similar from the front but the reason I focus on the profile is because it's much better for establishing a likeness and judging the depths of the features.
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