Okay this is a way easier method for making armatures. They even stand by themselves. Really happy how they turned out. Might try some smaller ones for the gesture studies.

Really enjoy this method for building armatures, I love that it’s one continuous piece. Had some left over aluminum from before, wasn’t sure of the gauge tho. I ordered more wired but decided to use all I had to make a few armatures for practice, wanted to do more than one size as well so I’m glad I was able to create so many. Posed a few of the smaller ones with the reference images from the last assignment.

lol. You win a new car....ving. Good one.

Congratulations to all the winners and thanks for the critiques Andrew. Really useful.

Thank you for the critiques Andrew. I will work on it. Congratulations to the winners🥳

Thank you for taking the time to review the sculptures. Was fun to make , ill sculpt again! Ill try to get the length on my torso better.

Yeah... camera! I think many of the images (including mine) were taken with a phone camera, which, as you say, distorts horribly! For my normal sculptural work, I use a mid-range DSLR with a 50mm lens, so it forces me to back away a bit, and reduce the distortion.

Thank you for all the constructive comments. Working on my short gesture sculpt now.

Cool! People are so skilled, it's so interesting to see how everyone does things slightly different.

Thank you, Andrew, for your perceptive observations, and thanks to all who participated offering much to learn from!

Here is my attempts at creating the armature. The two larger ones were made on 1 unit: 2 cm scale, while the last was 1:1. This was much easier to create than the other way I learned to create armatures because it’s one continuous piece instead of multiple pieces wired together. My biggest problem was having the shoulders and pelvises a bit unequal. I will need to be more careful with checking the measurements when I make the bends.

Hello fellow sculptors! Is there any ongoing assignment?

I’m a total newbie but I think I could more or less capture the gesture. One of the hardest part was to make the creases like where the leg connects to the pelvis or where the rib cage pushes out the skin. Also I think my foil armature was too thick. I would appreciate your feedbacks.

Whipped a couple of these bad boys 1” per head height and 1/2” per head height . Posed smaller one…

Hi all. I tried sculpting for my first time, and I think I made a okay sculpture. (You can at least tell what it is). I think the front is good, but the back is really bad. I think it is too big, and I didn’t do a good job clearly showing the muscles. Tips, anyone?

How do you recommend warming the Chavant to make it easier to work with? My house is quite cool and it's very stiff at room temp. It also doesn't seem to warm up too well just in my hands, but they're also cold! Is it safe to microwave? Should I warm small chunks at a time and repeat as necessary? I also have a heat gun, but am not sure if I should just aim it at one end of the block or take off a chunk and warm in a bowl or something. Any advice would be appreciated! Loving the content so far, and thanks in advance!

Would like to see all the lessons in one link, now it is not organized. Anyone having that issue?

Hi all, I'd never heard of Hale before, so this system was new to me. I like Andrews approach, one wire, one cut, potential to do from memory. I made plenty of errors along the way, and like to mix things up trying little tweaks each time... So far I have 17 armature test bodies, most are 5 inches tall, the biggest is 7. I wanted to save on wire for when I'd gotten the hang of this method :) #1 First try, over cranked it, knee snapped.  #2 Excess spine length, something went wrong looks dodgy. #3 Tried thin steel (basic garden wire), ok bit flimsy at less than 1mm thickness for 5 inch figure. Messed up the arms, too short. #4 Tried something different, more cuts, too fussy, fail. #5 1mm steel garden wire, stiff to bend but do-able. Experimented with the idea of a support bar. Ended up being 3 pieces of wire and needed a bit of tape. It is strong and would work ok. #6 2mm Alu' wire, this one is built like a tank! Over kill for 5 inch scale! #7 Tried a simple technique with just wrapping in the middle. It's fast and flimsy, and I also managed to get the measurement way off, doh! #8 Raced along in real time with Andrew's video and just about kept up yay, but, I managed to mess up the measurements again. #9 It dawned on me the diagram I drew to help me, ur...wasn't helping because it was wrong. I corrected it, and finally it clicked, feels like I 'got it'. #10 The excess on the wire roll was driving me nuts so I tried to figure out what length I need to cut a work piece off. On this one I started with x7 total heights worth of wire and ended up a bit short. (Later I settle on x10 and have plenty to work with.) #11 On this try I ran short on wire again but the build went quick, 9mins. #12 Angled 'up' pelvis to help correct a long spine. #13 I tried a wider shoulder (heroic look?), got this a bit overdone. Messed up the left foot, has messy head loop. Took 13mins. #14 Adjusted my diagram again. Turned out nice. #15 x10 total height lengths of wire measured and cut off as working piece. Straight spine. Took 11.5 mins, had some wire left over (which is fine). #16 7 inch, the biggest yet. Thicker wire took longer to bend and more area to cover. Build time 17 mins. #17 Small 2 inch tall scale, this is green 'floral wire'. I messed up the order but think I saved it, the wire length was stock pre-cut and ended a bit short of making it back to the head. I've now just watch Andrew's second armature video and will try again, this time I'll aim for smooth loops on the hands and feet. I hesitate slightly as I've previously preferred to undersize these areas, but I came here to party so I'll go with the flow and trust that Andrew can help me fix it later haha.