It’s marked as the last night of the session, but we have 2 more weeks left.

I rushed around the room and to block out shapes better, so I guess I have bonus time?

Here’s the sculpt being intentionally more angular and with more alternating of combed/raked and smoothed and globbed planes

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Another 3 hours sculpting with Paloma and the usual crew. Plus one of our new hires hung out because she knows the organizer, that was pretty cool!

I basically started over. The washer from the hips was sticking out of the pubis, and the leg wires were compressing funny. I had also made the head smaller by folding the loop down.

Augie from dogtown sculpture drew over my redo and I wasn’t even mad, even though I didn’t invite him to.

I think he saw something I wasn’t capturing, but whatever it was, I wasn’t seeing it.

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Last day sculpt of Allan in standing pose with arm up.

I was measuring legs and having trouble and then I realized his entire torso from belly button to crotch was too short. I dropped the crotch and leg shapes started making sense.

It was so late in the sculpt to do this, I ended up reducing a bunch of other things and making further large adjustments.

I tried a portrait but it was so unsatisfying and hard given the hand placement in front of his face, so I wiped it back out.

He’s 18” tall

Things that went well:
* armature ‘feet’ locked down, armature 90° bend locked down. No wiggles.
* creation of slab at bottom to fix overall height.
* not scared to make big changes
* rolled with changes to raised arm and no platform
* hands and feet last
* slow core buildup

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Pretty light group tonight, lot of no shows. Model was there tho!

Started filling out thighs and knees and made a base because the leg noodles were too long.

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Week two of 6. Figure sculpt is still bad proportions below the knees. It’s really hard to see and sculpt the belly and pectorals and breasts when everything is folded up.

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Struggling even after 3 weeks to block out Caleb’s basic shapes. Got frustrated tonight and just mushed everything back.

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One of these sessions I’m gonna get all the right proportions and sizes and everything in its place. Today is not that day.

I see progress from the first sculpt, but next session I’m only gonna block in each week.

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Week 3 of 6 of the current #figuresculpting season, model is actually way smaller/thinner than I originally blocked out; spent most of the 3 hours scraping away with a loop tool and unifying larger shapes.

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Done with my first ever figure sculpt. Started second week of October and spent 3 hours once a week, about 7 or 8 weeks.

A great group of sculptors and while non-instructional, learned a lot, and one sculptor was super helpful with his feedback.

I played final countdown during the last 10 minute sitting, and also Moana’s “You’re welcome” and the rocky movie montage track.

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