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this is the project i worked on for the entire spring quarter of '08. fourteen weeks of working at least 20 hours a week on MY HEAD!
this is a very realistic replication of what i look like. i measured everything (and i mean EVERYTHING) a million times to make sure that it looked just like me.
it's been two years, so my hair is longer, but i still look like this. that's even my own special hat. this bust currently resides in my parents' home on top of my piano.
*~~*
sometimes we don't understand why a professor or teacher assigns us a project. this project was mandatory, and is mandatory, for everyone taking that level sculpture class at my college.
why? why is it important to these professors that i learn how to sculpt an immaculate human head?
the simple answer is: it isn't. i wasn't being taught how to sculpt a head, i was being taught how to measure. it wasn't until i started applying the methods i learned working on this sculpture on others that i realized this leasson.
that's why it's important to keep an open mind: your teachers have been around a lot longer than you, and sometimes they actually know what they're talking about.
*~~*
i still haven't glazed this piece because i'm still deciding how to finish it. i've started "dressing it up" and i think that instead of glazing it i'm going to use a wood finish to give it a darker tone, and just keep buying hats to put on it.
this is a very realistic replication of what i look like. i measured everything (and i mean EVERYTHING) a million times to make sure that it looked just like me.
it's been two years, so my hair is longer, but i still look like this. that's even my own special hat. this bust currently resides in my parents' home on top of my piano.
*~~*
sometimes we don't understand why a professor or teacher assigns us a project. this project was mandatory, and is mandatory, for everyone taking that level sculpture class at my college.
why? why is it important to these professors that i learn how to sculpt an immaculate human head?
the simple answer is: it isn't. i wasn't being taught how to sculpt a head, i was being taught how to measure. it wasn't until i started applying the methods i learned working on this sculpture on others that i realized this leasson.
that's why it's important to keep an open mind: your teachers have been around a lot longer than you, and sometimes they actually know what they're talking about.
*~~*
i still haven't glazed this piece because i'm still deciding how to finish it. i've started "dressing it up" and i think that instead of glazing it i'm going to use a wood finish to give it a darker tone, and just keep buying hats to put on it.
Category Artwork (Traditional) / Human
Species Unspecified / Any
Size 853 x 1280px
File Size 124.2 kB
good to see you're still alive!
and what a nifty portrait. you're a cutie, even in super sculpey (or what else you used, it's not that important).
that lesson reminds me of Betty Edwards' lesson when she teaches poeple how to draw. she teaches them to draw what they see, not what they think it should look like... when I read her book, I realized what I did wrong all these years.
I'm still fighting it. you don't throw 15 years of making mistakes overborad that easily.
or maybe I'm making excuses. ^^
wood finish? sounds like a plan. :)
and what a nifty portrait. you're a cutie, even in super sculpey (or what else you used, it's not that important).
that lesson reminds me of Betty Edwards' lesson when she teaches poeple how to draw. she teaches them to draw what they see, not what they think it should look like... when I read her book, I realized what I did wrong all these years.
I'm still fighting it. you don't throw 15 years of making mistakes overborad that easily.
or maybe I'm making excuses. ^^
wood finish? sounds like a plan. :)
you're right, it does take a long time to change artistic habits; but don't let that discourage you. one of my professors told me, "look at the art you are striving to create: it will take you ten years to get there." art isn't something you magically get better at, just like any talent.
this was actually made in terra cota clay, that is "real dirt". that means this sculpture is over fifty pounds, and it's even hollow! i was required to use this clay, but i was able (at the time) to get it real cheep from the school. because of the global economic recession (and the fact that my college is very small and has relatively little funding) i can't get the clay anywhere near as cheep now.
ahh, hard times.
this was actually made in terra cota clay, that is "real dirt". that means this sculpture is over fifty pounds, and it's even hollow! i was required to use this clay, but i was able (at the time) to get it real cheep from the school. because of the global economic recession (and the fact that my college is very small and has relatively little funding) i can't get the clay anywhere near as cheep now.
ahh, hard times.
ah, terracotta! you can make it a lawn ornament on your terrace and call it mediterranean. :)
back in school we used to fool around with that kind of clay. but not a single of my works survived the first branding (in afterthought I never cared for it; they showed us what to do, but never how to create somethign artistic out of it)
oh yeah, the recession. one would think any government would strive to make ends meet before they pick up more loans, yes?
no.
in germany, getting loans and making depts countless generations will have fun with seems to be a cherished tradition. they are the right ones to dis the greek government, they are not better.
they were more lucky.
back in school we used to fool around with that kind of clay. but not a single of my works survived the first branding (in afterthought I never cared for it; they showed us what to do, but never how to create somethign artistic out of it)
oh yeah, the recession. one would think any government would strive to make ends meet before they pick up more loans, yes?
no.
in germany, getting loans and making depts countless generations will have fun with seems to be a cherished tradition. they are the right ones to dis the greek government, they are not better.
they were more lucky.
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