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Ask me questions for my sculpting blog.

Mon Aug 20, 2007, 6:08 AM
I am still planning on doing a tutorial/book as how to sculpt but what I thought I would do for the next year while I’m working on it is to answer a question a week in my blog. I’ll be putting in pictures and product information for what I use to sculpt. However I can’t answer a question until someone asks me it.

So here is your chance, what questions do you have about sculpting? Ask as many as you like because I will keep them on file and pull a new one up each week. If I don’t know the answer I will check with my sources and see if they have ideas. Feel free to ask anything from what kind of clay I use, to what kind of tools. How I sand or my methods for working in the round.

People ask me why I’m so willing to show people how to sculpt, the answer is easy. I learned to sculpt on line, from reading tutorials, spending hours, upon hours searching on forums, and nit picking my way through google searches to find tips and tricks. Many of the best I have I learned by people responding to my own work with suggestions.

This tutorial is by no means the “way” to do it. It’s just MY way to do it. When I can I will be putting up also alternative ways that may help others. (see filling in heavy spaces, I use apoxie, many sculptors use tinfoil. I’ll try and show you both)

For those who don’t want to sculpt, check it out for glimpses of new work, or work you may not see posted.

So please I’m asking you… ASK AWAY!

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:iconendejester:
What part of a sculpt is the most frustrating for you <3

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"Perfection is found, not where there is nothing left to add...but when there is nothing left to take away." - Unknown.
:iconshapestrong:
The commission list! *laugh* Actually I can answer that part right now, the finishing and smoothing, because i'm never satisfied. I can actually work a peice to death trying to get it just right.

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"All of us are in the gutter, But some of us are looking at the stars" ~Oscar Wilde
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:iconsnowleopard31:
Where do you start? do you work from the bottom up, piece by piece and then smooth them together, a combination of both, or does it depend on the piece itself? or is there a certain place you always like to start, like the largest part, etc?

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"Ambition is a poor excuse for not having sense enough to be lazy."
-Edgar Bergen
"Never be afraid to laugh at yourself, after all, you could be missing out on the joke of the century."
-Dame Edna Everage

-AEA- anti-egoistic-artists
:icontimkelly:
WHat is your biggest weakness with sculpting? is it rendering mechanics? cloth? weapons? Getting the muscle structure down? or something else entirely?
I want to know what is the hardest thing for you, and how you work it out.
-Tim

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-Tim Kelly
:iconget-sirius:
I would love to know:

- how you get such wonderful detail on facial structure (eyes, noses, etc) *they look so real!

- how do you manage to get folds and fabrics to look natural... it is a very hard thing to do!

**very excited for your blog and book!!**

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“The dark chocolate. When it melts in my mouth, it tastes just like your voice sounds … especially when my ear is pressed to your chest.”
- His Draught of Delicate Poison -chapter 15
:iconshapestrong:
Well do you mean detail to match the original art? Or how i get depth on it in general? (I just want to know so I can answer the question fully)

I will be sure to cover the folds in fabrics.

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"All of us are in the gutter, But some of us are looking at the stars" ~Oscar Wilde
:iconshapestrong:
Good questions. I might actually begin with these because its the beginning of a project. maybe a few people with sculpt along with me.

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"All of us are in the gutter, But some of us are looking at the stars" ~Oscar Wilde

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