Tag: sculptjanuary

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..:)

SculptJanuary, 2 January: “Tentacles”.

This year I’ve resolved to do a greater variety of stuff parallel to “A moment in the sun”. The aim is to build skills that will help with film making as well as taking part in a few community challenges where I can participate in stuff that other people are doing and get feedback.

And there’s also the fun of sucking at something new but enjoying it. 🙂

One of the things I’ve decided to do is SculptJanuary. I haven’t done much sculpting before but I’ve been meaning to, and that’s the sort of situation where daily challenges set by someone else are useful.

Here’s a sculpted mushroom for 1 January. One down, thirty to go!