Looking to Improve. Any help appreciated

OrdinaryOddBall

Hello! My name is Jordan and I am a budding sculptor. I just started to get into the groove with sculpting and am finally starting to get comfortable with it. I really want to improve so I want to try to post a sculpt here everyday if I can and get some form of feedback on anatomy or whatever you can give feedback on I would really appreciate it! It's going to be hard but I really want to work at it. So first off I have this female bust I started working on. 
I tried to see how fast I could get this done and gave myself an hour. I am a student so I hope that if I post some of my project if you guys could critique those I would really appreciate that as well. Thank you for you time!

Steve Schulze

I'd focus on getting your anatomy right first and foremost. Speed will come with time.

Grab yourself some good anatomical references and keep pushing it around until you've got the shapes down. I'd be inclined to suggest doing an entire character rather than a disembodied torso, as it'll be trickier to nail the anatomy if limbs simply end like that.

OrdinaryOddBall

Thank you for the advice! I asked a friend for some character reference so I could try to capture the general feeling of a character and maybe work in some anatomy.

I don't know if that a good way to get practice in? A question just for anyone reading. Would it be better to just focus on sculpting realistic anatomy first before getting into character's, or should I just try to use anything as practice? Thank you for you time! Also here is my friends site: http://mariaursetti.weebly.com/ 

Kn5743

You should definitely start with realistic anatomy.  Studying stylized forms first wont help you build a good base.  

jacob thomas

There are so many options around to learn anatomy these days.
Grassetti's gumroad is pretty amazing for the price.
https://gumroad.com/grassettiart

OrdinaryOddBall

Thank you both of you! I was just a little confused about where to start since it feels like a lot, but thank you for that link. It looks like a lot of good info and honestly that feels like they're giving it away. Thank you again!

OrdinaryOddBall

Okay so here's the one for today. I took the advice to do a full body anatomy sculpt. I took a look at some anatomy books my girlfriend let me borrow.

Any feed back on these would be appreciated!