I didn't have much time today, so I thought I'd just play a little bit and came out with this. It's still wheel-spinning; they all look basically the same. But I suppose if I can remember and reproduce the planes that make up a torso to that point on a similar quality each time, it means I'm remembering them properly, at least. I want to push that one a bit more and see just how much I can replicate the reference on that level. I think I'm still fucking something up; I think that's why I'm still fixated on this thing. I feel like there's something wrong, but I can't work out what, so I'm just spinning my wheels doing the same thing over and over again trying to work out what it is. Although, it has been said that's the definition of madness...
I think I'm still fucking something up; I think that's why I'm still fixated on this thing. I feel like there's something wrong, but I can't work out what
dunno if you want feedback, but I've noticed the shoulders are consistently on the smaller side, at least for the d00ds, you nailed them in earlier posts though
I think I'm still fucking something up; I think that's why I'm still fixated on this thing. I feel like there's something wrong, but I can't work out what
dunno if you want feedback, but I've noticed the shoulders are consistently on the smaller side, at least for the d00ds, you nailed them in earlier posts though
Oh, I absolutely appreciate feedback. And that's true, now that you mention it. Maybe I focused on women so much before that I'm not used to bulkier male forms, haha.
I'm really bad at arms. Especially the underside. So hard to get a good angle for those in reference images. So I did this planar one studying from a scan. It might've been a questionable choice; the man has unusually long, slightly disproportionate arms. Well, the anatomy will be the same. Anyway, it's not quite right, but better than I understood it before. I was referencing the muscles themselves too much to try to understand what I was looking at, though, so it's more ecorche-like than it ought to be. Honestly, the skin and fat makes a huge difference to a real arm, so I need to account for that.
I think these exercises have been helping, though. I'm finding it much....Clearer? I'm finding it easier to establish forms that look roughly like they're supposed to by thinking of the planes and the key contours that define them, rather than my previous hyperfixation on the anatomy as anatomy that undermined me with all its complexities. I reckon I'm slightly less dogshit than before. Just a little bit.
I think I'm going to do something else. Studying this way for a bit has been good practice for breaking my habit of thinking in terms of anatomy rather than form, but honestly at this point I'm just procrastinating with it because I'm a fucking idiot perfectionist. As per usual. I'm just putting off doing some proper sculpting because I know I'll only fuck it up. But I need to do some if I'm ever going to actually be halfway decent, so I'll try doing something that actually looks like the thing it's supposed to be again next.
Not a tonne of time to sculpt today. Going to try to push this one as far as I can over a few days' free time. Just getting this res as accurate as I can first. Already looks like shit.
Ahh, it's in a shite state. I upped the resolution so I could do the forms more accurately, but somewhere along the way I've fucked it up again. Especially the ribs and obliques. There's some stuff going on on the reference I don't entirely understand; mostly around the top pair of his six pack, and at the edges of the abs. He must've been dehydrated as fuck or something; you can even see creases between the sections of his obliques. Not as strongly as they are on my model, though; I'm finding it difficult to establish them where they need to be - and accurately - without overdoing it. The back is also dogshit and needs a lot of work. Only just started the arms, so of course they're bad, too.
I feel like as soon as I up-resed it, I lost control of the surface. Useless.
A bit of progress, perhaps? I realised I was getting ahead of myself, as per usual. Idiot. I don't need to be worrying about the eccentricities of this guy's deltoids or abs right now; I hadn't got the overall shape quite right. I was also misreading some of the shadows, so the forms weren't right in a few areas. I've made some adjustments. I also started on the arms, but they need a fair amount of work. I only had a few hours here and there for it, so not as much going as I'd like. I want to push the accuracy a little more on this level; next thing up if I can get that far will be worrying about the fine details. That'll be new. Doing details at a sensible time for once.
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I am so bad at shoulders.
This is stagnant. I'm just repeating myself without learning anything. Spinning my wheels again. Tch.
dunno if you want feedback, but I've noticed the shoulders are consistently on the smaller side, at least for the d00ds, you nailed them in earlier posts though
Oh, I absolutely appreciate feedback. And that's true, now that you mention it. Maybe I focused on women so much before that I'm not used to bulkier male forms, haha.