Scott Camazine
Boalsburg, Pennsylvania
Just an old man, with a passion for nature, art and anatomy
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added comment inFrom Clay to Glory! Revealing the Winner of the Figure Sculpting Challenge
4mo
I'm getting some info from the sponsors and then I will message winners and contestants with information on how to get their prizes! (this might take a bit so please be patient) Great job everyone! I look forward to the next one!
Scott Camazine
2mo
Have you posted how the contestants may obtain access to the PoseSpace photos?
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4mo
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Life size mouth assignment. Decided to ignore the facial hair and focus on the facial forms. Not sure I pushed the dental mound out far enough. And it was tough getting inside the lips. Feel like my noses are getting better though 👃.
4mo
Lovely work Roy. I agree with your self-critique that the dental mound does not protrude enough, or perhaps the nose protrudes too far. I like the final smooth surface you achieve. Are you getting that just with tool work, or are you using oil or a solvent as well?
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This is a great opportunity to challenge myself and see how far I have progressed through the figure sculpting fundamentals course. Thank you for the opportunity
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This was a wonderful exercise. It was good to have a deadline which kept me on track. Even so, this piece was not completely finished! Thank you AJK and the sponsors.
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hi Andrew, here are the photos of the sculpture I made for the competition. it's the first time I've attempted a work of this size and it's also the first time I've participated in a competition. it was very useful to have photos of the model, they pushed me to delve into the anatomy. so thank you very much for this great opportunity for artistic growth. it has been a wonderful experience and I hope that in the future there will be other new challenges. see you soon, Mauro.
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Hello Andrew and hello to all the participants.
First of all, thank you very much for create this competition, it has been an intense two weeks and I have learned so much, I don't feel that my sculpture is fully finished (I will continue working on it) but here is the result at this point, and I'm very happy with it.
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Hey Andrew, and fellow artists. Here are pictures of my sculpture. Was really challenging and fun. Ben was a fantastic model as well!
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Hello Andrew. This lesson is wonderful, and inspiring. Thank you. I have seen this pose frequently in the course. Is it available in PoseSpace. I thought it might be a useful exercise to use this pose, and then move on to others.
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6mo
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Here is a bas relief I did based upon a drawing I found online and a photo from PoseSpace. Comments, critique and suggestions are most welcome. Help me improve my work! Thanks
6mo
Looking at this after I finished, I realized that I lost an important part of the gesture by making my figure too vertical. I lost the nice curve of the back from the right shoulder to the left hip/buttock area. I should take the time to do this again!!
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8mo
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Here is my nose, along with some additional anatomy! I guess I got carried away and could not just do the nose. I felt like I needed some more context (lips, mouth, forehead, cheeks) to be able to capture the features. This is still a work-in-progress. I am hoping to get some good critiques to help me improve this exercise.
8mo
Thanks for the compliment, Andrew. But how about some tough, hard, criticism! You don't have to be so nice!! Nothing like telling me all the places I screwed up to get me back at it to make improvements. One thing I did to have a bit more freedom to make changes without ruining what I had already done was to scan the clay model using the Trnio Plus app and then bring the scan into a 3D modeling program (zBrush) to do some digital work. This also let me sculpt symmetrically, using the mirror feature of the software. Here are a few views of the digital model.
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This was a fun exercise. I got a bit carried away making an armature since I have a woodshop, but it probably was not worth the effort to try to use less clay by making a fuller armature. I included a few shots of the earlier part of the process. It took me a while to figure out why the front view in the initial stages looked so weird (the top of the head being too wide and large). I am not finished with this yet, so please send me LOTS of criticisms and suggestions. I think I will mold this in silicone (using cheap hardware store 100% silicone. It works well for me) But I do hope that Andrew will give us some instruction on mold-making as well
1yr
Also, I forgot to mention that I got carried away a bit with the details and could not resist putting in a suggestion of the eyes and lips. But if I do make a mold, I can then re-use this same sculpt, either making it more abstract and simplified, or perhaps trying to make the head more feminine.
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1yr
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The pictures aren’t the best, we are remodeling our kitchen. My usual spot is no longer available until that is finished.
1yr
Hi Ray. It would be helpful if you took photos that were at eye level instead of the angles you used. Maybe you can send a new set of photos when your kitchen is done! I think some of your proportions are off. I took photos of my attempt and brought them into Photoshop and overlaid them on Andrew's simplified head. In photoshop you can overlay two images and adjust the transparency. This is a good way to see if your proportions are right, and where they are off.
1yr
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I've got a bit behind schedule, oops. Will catch up.
Started this assigment with the boden method (which I've decided I Iike a lot), and blocked out from there. Used my previous ref (and the early pancake... bit risky?) to help with the profile.
In hindsight, I should've taken photos early and flipped them horizontally once the main shapes were in. Having flipped the front/back photos now, I feel like the symmetry is pretty off.
For the smoothing I used a loop tool I made a while back, by clamping loops of nickel wound guitar string into each end of a narrow copper pipe. Then cleaned that up a tissue that has been dabbed with isopropyl myristrate.
1yr
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Just finished this assignment. Any feedback and critique would be great. I sculpted digitally instead of traditional method. These knowledge can be transferred to methods. Thank you for the lesson Andrew.
1yr
Very nice. Are you sculpting in zBrush? The thing I like about digital sculpture is that you can turn on bilateral symmetry and thus do not have to spend so much time making sure the right and left sides are symmetrical!
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I thought I would try carving a skull rather using clay for this assignment. I found it quite a bit more difficult to sculpt using ONLY a subtractive process, rather than being able to add and subtract, correcting my mistakes. I laminated pieces of plywood and used their vertical orientation to help me maintain the bilateral symmetry of the skull. My piece is not as abstract as you suggested in the assignment, but I really enjoyed this exercise.
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