Hi all!
Hi Kenneth and welcome to the planet!Interested in sculpting uh?I wish you a good begining and I hope we'll see cool figure from you very soon!
So,accept my advice.I think,if you really want to sculp figures successfuly,you'll have to study anatomy.Try to get an anatomy atlas(I recomment Synelnikov's one).This will be a little expensive,but you can't work without it.A univercity anatomy book would be very usefull as well(you could get a medicine book and an "Art Anatomy" book).
Then get different types of Epoxy clay:Magic Sculp,A&B,Milliput,Duro(Green Stuff),Andrea.Each of them is usefull for different cases(For example Milliput white is more elastic while Magic Sculp is softer...);it's of them will be usefull for a different part of the model(Duro is nice for sculpting hair!)
Read as more article you can find in the Planet forum for sculpting and on the entire web as well.Try to practice every new technique you learn.In this process you'll find out new tips on your own,so let us know(that's how each of us learn new things
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Sculpt the head first(there is a cool article on Planet for this!Give it a search!).Count the diamtre of the sculp and start calculating the lenth of the rest members(spin,arms,legs etc.).Get info from your anatomy books.Always count the lenth of the bones,not including the flesh.Cut wire of the resulted lenths and start sculpting.This way you'll avoid Anatomy mistakes,but you may make mistakes on the scale(which is more acceptable...).
The most important:Use your imagination and try new material and ways to sculp different objects(For example forging a needle to fire and hiting it with a hammer at it's point can give a nice arrow...)
We're waiting to see fine staff from your hands!We'll bite only if you quit :lol:
Cheerz!
-Kostas.
