My why bother i use clay instead sculpture thread that includes nudity?
As you all know im a random artist,
think its time to start a thread for all the sculpts i do
think its time to start a thread for all the sculpts i do
wip
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Post more of these, I'm thinking of taking up some scultping classes myself? Can you say some stuff about how you started working with clay and the whole procedure behind that?
edit: oh man I checked out the sculpts at your website and they are awesome. Looks like fun.
Oh man, the coffee almost hit the screen!
Hard time not laughing out loud, i can feel some tears coming up from laughin though.
Traditional sculpting is great for your overal skills, really learned alot about shapes since i started.
T4pan, I never took classes so i dont know if it will do you any good. I like to sculpt when i feel the inspiration coming up, and going to classes and needing to be creative on demend is not my thing.
I will tell/show you some more about how i started, what i do when i start a sculpt and what i use when im back home. im going to start a big ODST sculpture, around 50cm high, so while making it, i will post some pics that show all steps i take
vrav, thanks man! its a totaly different experience, and its fun indeed,
clay is not expensive, so it doesnt hurt to try!
if you like sculpting in zbrush, traditional will most likely fit you aswell.
(some clays are more fun then others, will tell some about that in my next post)
Im using an animation clay called plasticine i believe.
i have no idea whats in this clay, its a bit oil based i guess, since i keep getting these greasy fingers everytime i work with it. it doesnt get hard, wich is great to do bits and piece, tear it down and create another sculpt with it. the downside is that you cannot bake it.
guess its a great clay to start with,
traditional grey clay is what i started with.
its a bit more dificult, you constantly need to keep it wet, but not to wet or it gets muddy,
its a trick to use the drying process in your favor.
a plus would be, that you have 10kg for 10 bucks, so you can go big without wasting alot of money.
ill get more into things when i got some img's to explain it.
i started building a frame for the odst, will post some of that later on.
I prefer super sculpey but thats just my preference.
Nice work so far. Can't wait to see more.
I use clay quite a bit, as well, and after watching some of the gnomon dvd's on sculpture, I decided to try Chavant NSP Medium. If I could afford the molding and casting materials, I'd be making those things all the time. I love working with chavant, it has a nice firm feel to it, you can get extreme details with it, and block out forms super quick when it's warm.
Anyway, don't wanna turn this into a "which clay is better" thread, so I'll just say I like what I use, and don't blame anyone for liking anything else.
You're doing a great job so far, looking forward to seeing the progress on this thing.
If so I would love to know what plastilene you used it on, as I thought this might be incopatible with some of them maybe? (I know that some platilenes containing sulphur can fuck up some kinds of rubbers, that sort of things)
Great start Rens!
Cant wait to see how your detail comes out.
Fun hehe
I used it on the van aken brand plastalina. I've never heard of using petroleum jelly with that type of clay, but I suppose it could work. I preferred baby oil/mineral oil because it had more of solvent-like property, being more liquid. I could soften up surface areas I wanted to add detail to and then let the oil 'dry out' without ruining the consistency of the clay.
def. will try those out
Jesse, they dont sell super sculpey here, or maybe in a hand full of places.
Tully gave me an awesome link to an online store in the Uk that supplies almost everything you could want, so ill be buying a mega load of stuff there in a bit!
So my ODST sculpt will be with super sculpey.
I've been watching the halo 3 commercials once more, and the whole real life model building is something that realy caught my attention. Creating the real scale weapons, or the maquette of the battle field, its just awesome.
Realy want to get things like that into my portfolio
Oh and people feel free to post any sculpting things in here
would be nice to have an all around sculpting thread