Ok I need some serious help. This is my second attempt. My first attempt was with Medium Chavant NSP, but it was too hard for me to handle. I used my hairdryer to soften it but it hardened as soon as I walked down stairs. The pictures are of the second attempt with soft clay. I'm amazed how everyone else's look so smooth and chunky. Mine is all broken up and patchy. Is it because I used soft clay?

Recent hand study that I did. With this one I used the simple method of twisting 5 wires together for the forearm and then had the twisting end at the wrist to separate the wire into the thumb and fingers. I just used my left hand as a reference for this sculpture which is a great exercise. If you haven’t tried to do a hand study yet give it a try and you can close one eye and look through the sculpture at your hand to check the proportions, angles, and widths of the hand from many angles.

I just got my sculpture course. Will begin my new project

I've always thought it would be quite complicated to do a mould of a sculpture which has a 1/2" pipe sticking out from one side, what's the common practice for these cases? I assume that having the armature hang from its head with a wire makes things much simpler for moulding? - Thanks! 😊

How dare you use a butterknife to tighten those. I will fake outrage for days! DAYS! ( joke)

Sirrr Do we need to make an armature for a 2 inch clay sculpture???

Where are the links to purchase material ?

Is there a download for Adjustable Armatures??? Also I have been away and I need to catch up. I viewed your Bridgeman video the other day. You were asked questions about Mold Making Techniques. Do you know Robert Tolone You Tube Site which is all about Mold Making. He has covered One & Two Piece Molds, Blanket Molds, Cut Molds, Rotational Molding and how to build your own Rotational Mold Machine that is hand driven. He has a lot of great suggestions how to succeed in Molding and Casting. He has been very helpful to me in my work with figures.

hello everybody I am glad that I decided to buy the course. I hope that the knowledge received here will allow me to develop. I have one small problem - despite the fee, I still don't see premium lessons, only short videos from YT

Hello Andrew - this is a really question about the website: when I open the My Classroom link the dashboard window opens and the message in the block below My Profile says that I have not added any courses to My Classroom. This concerns me since I have purchased your figure sculpting fundamentals course. A glitch, or am I missing something? Will appreciate your reply. Thank you.

Enjoyed doing the armature using single piece of wire! I have practiced it and happy with the result.

Took longer than expected and my thumb hurts a bit from the twisting. but they seem promising to me, i guess i'll make some even smaller just to play around with the clay

I did ones at 6, 9, and 12 inches. I imagine the 6 inch one would have been easier with a thinner wire, but I only have this. I used the sharpie to mark the wire with the measurements, and that helped a lot while figuring out the process.

My wire finally showed up so here are my 3 armatures. I should have listened more to the measure constantly advice, because somehow after it was done I found the middle sized guy has one leg too short! Not sure what happened there, but need to practice more. Had not done anything like this before and it was fun.

green garden wire helps clay stick better

Just watched this, and, yeah, it's much simpler than approaches I've used. Gonna give this a try.

This should be taught in schools because it’s fun to make and it helps us to build finger calluses like guitarist. Which is cool. The only difference is, our hurt more🤣(🥲) Jokes aside, this loop thingy is very cool. It gives us more flexibility to change the basic posture and build of the sculpture. About the armature. Unlike last time, I have kept the hip unit a little less than one unit. I see the problem in my previous armatures now. But can I use them for future studies anyways, by bending them downwards or something? Please tell if the proportion on this one is ok? It might look off at the head because I cut the wire too soon.