Tag: sculpting

SculptJanuary 7 – “Fav Actor”.

I’m not sure if Bill Murray is my favourite actor as such but any excuse to watch “Lost In Translation” will do. Still a bit of a caricature.

SculptJanuary 6 – “Hair/Fur”.

I tried for a good old fashioned cartoon werewolf arm with shaggy clay-style fur but time was very limited.

SculptJanuary 6 – “Caricature”.

It’s meant to be Buster Keaton. Not super happy with this, but I’ve run out of time for the evening so here it is. Still an interesting character bust even if the likeness is a bit iffy.

SculptJanuary #4 – “Fruits”.

Instead of doing an entire fruit bowl, I focussed on just bananas – specifically, how to stylise the shape of a banana to make it look more appealing and fun. This is a far more interesting question for me personally than “how do I sculpt a banana to look totally photorealistic?”. The sculpts are presented in the order that I did them.

The bottom sculpt is where I ended up after an hour or so. On the first three attempts, the banana follows a normal C-shaped curve like my reference (an actual banana). On the last attempt, the curve near the thin end starts to turn flat again, forming a subtle S curve. The ends are also inflated slightly to give them a more cartoon-like taper. It’s not super-stylised but it’s much more fun to look at.

SculptJanuary #3 – “Arm”.

My anatomy knowledge is still not great so this one took many hours. Every anatomy book I had came off the shelf, many reference images were opened in browser tabs, many new Latin words were learnt and when I went to the shops for a quick break, I ended up staring at peoples’ arms.

In the end I got kind of overwhelmed. Shoulders and arms are a tricky thing to try to make a lot of sense of in a few hours and I didn’t start with a useful simple mental model for what an arm looks like from the skin out.

The one on the left I posted originally around 6:45pm. I found a CG Cookie arm sculpting tutorial and that made it seem much simpler. Confidence bolstered, I decided to have another crack at it. Between the munty big arm and the slightly less munty small arm is but four hours’ difference and with the benefit of a good video tutorial supplemented by a good reference book. Still not great, but much improved.

Best to keep practising this stuff until it’s fun, methinks..:)