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Published: 2013-07-31 20:46:27 +0000 UTC; Views: 26740; Favourites: 1453; Downloads: 367
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This is my latest piece"Eve" shown in the 3 stages of the creation. From left to right you see the sketch model then the blocked in sculpture and lastly the finished piece. The scale of the piece is 1/3 and is shown here in Roma Plastilina.Related content
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Magnificent detail on the muscle definition! Bravo!
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i think the sphere lacks some ornaments- not like making it a ball of something, even just simple ornaments,
i loved her pose and especially the fingers, it's beautiful and will you color it eventually or leave it as is?
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it would be so cool if you painted the sphere only like a planet o:
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This is Art as it was always meant to be. Presenting the stages of development speaks volumes. The pose of "Eve" works wonders in regard to demonstrating what it truly means to be a human being and what the human body is and does. Yes, Eve on top of the World. This piece is a marvel. Congratulations.
R.K.
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one doesnt simply just make fingers! D: Im soo jealous, for this is truly magnificent
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congratulations to the well deserved Daily Deviation
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I really like how some parts of the sculpture just flows into itself, like the ring finger on the right hand ring finger that just flows into the neck and the left shoulder that seems to still be a part of the lower thigh.
Like she was some kind of amorphous thing that just came into being out of herself, but isnt yet quite finished.
The pose itself looks kind of foetal, like a godess being born, but is yet to be fully formed.
Truly a supreme work of wonderful art in my eyes.
She would look absolutely exquisite as a bronze staute as well, I'm sure.
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Great thread you guys, and a very important topic. Some of my elders in sculpture will tell you the same thing. Richard MacDonald told me that if you take a person that is talented next to a person that is hard working the hard working person will beet the talented person overtime. Ed Fraughton has said the same thing many times to me. He says that talent does not matter it will help but anyone that wants to learn this can. I agree my talent only got me so far, think of it as a dead end road, while you are able to travel on it for some time it will only get you so far. You have to add to that road with knowledge and hard work. Working hard is important but working smart is even more important.
I see people taking classes from great teachers for years all the time but they are not really progressing. Then comes a newbie into the class and he doesn't do what the others are doing in the class. He doesn't sit down and draw from the same model that the instructor draws he goes and stands behind him watching his moves, the way he holds his pencil, and tries to get in his mind making mental notes of how he did what and when and asking the instructor why. This person who I know has advanced in a few years what the others could not do in a lifetime. Why? Because he put himself in a position of learning correctly. Most of art is knowledge not luck. Leonardo Davinci said you need to first learn how to see. Think about that for a minute. I asked myself when I first heard that, "what does that mean exactly?" then later on while teaching classes the answer came to me. I was watching students that were so eager to just get their hands all over their sculptures that they would not look nor think about the subject as much as they wanted to touch they clay. As if thumbing clay around will get you there somehow, but the majority do this. If it were not for this experience I probably would not have realized my approach in contrast to theirs. I noticed that I touched my sculpture much less than the students did and maybe a rate of 1:10 (you must know what you are about to do and why before you touch it) I also spend more time looking and moving all around the model. Most sculpting classes I've been to over the years are full of people that are just standing in one spot for long periods of time ( I think the model moves more than they do sometimes) Which is my point we must spend so much time acquiring knowledge thinking about the whats and the whys of nature before we can ever faithfully recreate her. And once you get to that point it doesn't end, there is more to learn and the real fun begins, you can then push and play with nature to make your statement.
Being able to sculpt something like this did not come of luck or talent like AnaTatto said, it took years of study from life and anatomy.
Excuse my rant
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Your 'rant' really said something to me; I'd like to become a better artist, but as you said, I suppose I would need to study drawing anatomy books to be able to see the simpler shapes within the body and be able to piece the puzzle together by trying to understand how light and movement affects folds in cloth, gravity's effect on it to find where the shadows fall. And then I should practice as often as possible, like I do with my guitar. (I used to be choppy when changing chords on guitar, but vigilant practice has made it possible for me to shift chords and fingerings more fluidly. I'm also getting better at finger-picking. But I practice guitar nearly every day, whereas I draw not quite so often.)
Your advice is making me think twice and more about how I should approach my technique to drawing from life. I guess I'm just impatient, as are those students who just want to get their hands on the clay.
Thank you for the helpful explanation; I hope you don't mind if I copy the text and paste it into a word document for future reference?
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totally agree--I've been an art teacher for 28 years and have taught every level from pre-K through college, special-ed and autism included, and the one thing I consistently teach my students is that they need to change the way they look at things, see it in a different way, before they can change the way they draw or paint.
beautifully sculpted piece of a dynamic pose--well done sir!
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Thank you so much for this great comment (and also for your brilliant work, indeed).
It is so true: A person who works hard to hit the goal he/she wants will ALWAYS beat a talented person who shows no real interest in progressing.
Talent can help make the way easier sometimes, but only if we are interested in getting better and work hard for it it will pay off in the end.
We also should remember this. Do not stop at a point and think: „Cool, I reached some point, I will now stay here forever.“ We always have to go on and push ourselves. Resting from now and than and looking back what we have done so far is ok, but never forget that LEARNING is a lot of fun.
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I devoured every word of this, then three times again. Thank you so much.
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Beautiful pose and facial expression!
Your newest title: Supreme Clay Master !
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what is the short cut for a jaw dropping on the ground? this is gorgeous.
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Just beautiful, absolutely stunning my good sir
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Wow! that is really impressive work!
It has such life!
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I agree. Not to mention hard work and intelligence fills in the blanks of "talent". Its the stuff behind the scenes and the stuff some people don't bother to do that tests peoples perseverance. Hard work is what takes you further.
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Many thanks for the support
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The artists that I know were shit before... like... you wouldn't say that they had any kind of talent they were not better than any other beginners... absolutely nothing was special about them.. But they really wanted this so they continued and now they are really REALLY good and they keep reminding everybody that they didn't get that far because they had special abilities.. No.. They got THIS far because they worked hard everyday. Hard Work and Intelligence.. that's what it takes
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you have a point,
but then do you never use the word talent? i mean hes talented now isnt he?
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Well being talented will help you on the time factor. Like, some people can try to draw a tree and will try 100 times before they successfully draw a nice tree. Others will try about 5-6 times and there you go you have a nice tree. It's nice for the one who has that gift because he doesn't have to work as hard but in the end the results are the same but the one who tried 100 times will not forget what he can or can't do when drawing a tree.
When you finally get good it doesnt mean that you're now talented. You start talented and whether you're talented or not in the end it doesnt matter because the best artist is the one who persevered. You get this far because you worked hard, then to actually get succesful you need to understand art, what it means, and how to succesfuly use it. That's why I said intelligence too.
Talent is just a plus.. a really nice plus.. but just a plus.
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what then would you say of picasso. At fourteen he was already brilliant in the studied formal elements of art and creativity. This enabled the liberation of his mind from pre-established modes of creating and expressing. His well developed innate talent allowed for thought processes the were independent of mere perseverance.
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Picasso is a genius just like many others and yes this guy was extremely talented but don't think that because Picasso was talented we all need to be talented to be successful. Van Gogh was a genius too but only really started at 27-28 years old. Why? Because he was unable to complete a painting he had such a hard time at first. That's just one example of a big bunch.
Why would people continue to draw if they know they are not talented? If they are not talented then they wont ever be succesful why sould they continue right? I don't think that's true. I've seen guys who are way better than I am who had a rougher start than me, does it means I'm talented? I guess.. I don't really know but I still look onto them as a guide/model.
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