Tag: sculpting

SculptJanuary 27 – Insect. A sort of Christmas beetle thingy.

SculptJanuary 26 – Cartoon Animal. A chuditch (western quoll) for Australia Day.

I’ve wanted to sculpt a quoll for absolutely ages, so I made a day of it – I collected together every single photograph and video I’ve ever recorded of a chuditch (mostly the one at Perth Zoo) and tried to figure out how to turn it into a cartoon. In the end I didn’t stylise toooooo much. Just enough. 🙂

Not sure why he’s doing the Shawshank Redemption pose though

SculptJanuary 13 – Clothing. A tunic made of thick material. Still getting the hang of wrinkles.

Note: SculptJanuary 13 and 25 ended up switched. The hat got sculpted back on the 13th, and this was sculpted on the 25th.

SculptJanuary 24 – Torso. Vaguely muscular stylised male.

I did lots of prep for this one. I looked at a course on sculpting human anatomy. I learnt all the names of the muscles and took copious notes on the origin, insertion and functions of the muscles I’d want to sculpt. I flipped back and forth in my anatomy book of choice matching muscle descriptions to insertion points on bones. I looked at photos of body builders and tried to figure out what that weird bulge is under their armpits (it’s a hugely developed latissimus dorsi). I rewatched relevant episodes of the current Proko course about torso anatomy.

I did all this prep because torsos – especially the lower torso where it connects to the hips – are a massive artistic weak spot for me. I haven’t internalised them properly yet.

Ironically, when it came time to sculpt, my mind was super tired from all that learning (and a few late nights). So the sculpt finished up pretty rough.

I’d like to go back and try this again once I’m properly rested and I’ve had time to properly absorb how torsos fit together. In the meantime I look forward to chuckling at my weird anatomical mistakes.

SculptJanuary 23 – Forest Spirit. A snailwife.

It is said that only the wisest old women go on to become snailwives, because a snailwife’s advice is second-to-none (though slow in coming). They are commonly found in forests, gathering bits of mossy dead tree to make their famous snailwife cakes.

Snailwives famously smell of damp moss and warm cheese. They travel completely naked aside from the famous snailwife hat. The hat is to conceal their identity – if their mortal name is spoken to them, they vanish into thin air forever.

You can easily distinguish the benevolent snailwife from the notorious and malevolent slugtrollop at a distance by the presence or absence of the hat and shell.

– Professor Quollism’s Book of Completely Made-Up Stuff.

Turns out the stylus from the Bamboo Fun isn’t compatible with the Intuos 4, but fortunately the Bamboo Fun is just fine for sculpting. So in the end I haven’t dropped a day, just had a very late evening…

Onward!