Comments on: Sculptalong – Fleshing Out the Armature

By: Cybersquig

Cybersquig — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 07:21:27 +0000

@Cajur: Good point. I also tend to use ‘anatomy for comic book artists’ alongside my ‘proper’ anatomy books, for fantasy/scifi work. Available on Amazon I believe. When I’ve been concerned about this, I’ve had my fiancee sit down with me to find what I’m after, to mitigate any ‘what have you been googling?’ sort of conversations. Your point about the divorce lawyer is well made!

@Diddy – sorry mate, I’ll get on there now. I’ve had no internet for the last few days, and have been trekking through the snow to the local internet cafe for a few mins at a time – stuff has been missed – I’ll rectify that now!

@Jim – I see what you’re saying…My figure is going to be fully clothed, so I needn’t worry too much at this stage about specifics. However, if I was sculpting a naked or semi-clothed person at this stage, I tend to just bulk out the muscles in rough like this and then smooth a very thin layer of putty over the top, like ’skin’ afterwards, just like I’ll demonstrate next installment with the trousers. At which point I can define (or not) the muscles as appropriate.

By: Onemonk

Onemonk — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 18:29:09 +0000

Very nice. Just a couple questions…

Is this still considered the “bulk up” or are we going to true muscle shapes at this point? Your sample looks a bit rough for final shapes.

Should we be going to final overall shape, or sick with the anatomy, say if the figure has a bulky piece of clothing or such? Or another way, would it be better to define the figure first, then just add the bulk again later for any thicker layers on top of that?

I think I need to dig out my muscle anatomy books as well…
JIM

By: Diddy

Diddy — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 14:44:18 +0000

hey buddy i sent you a pm over at pb, mind checking it out so i can get cracking with oz stuff ta

By: Steve Myers (aka Cajur)

Steve Myers (aka Cajur) — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 19:15:25 +0000

BTW, for those of us who have wives who would be less than comfortable “Googling” at naked gals, Burne Hogarth put out an amazing drawing book called “Dynamic Figure Drawing.” Unlike many drawing books, he teaches 3d forms, rather than outlines of forms, so this would work well for a sculpting reference. Amazon.com sells a paperback version for not a lot of cash, if this is of interest. $15 is MUCH cheaper than a divorce lawyer.

He also has a number of books on the hand, head, feet, and clothing wrinkles. All that I have bought (all but the wrinkles one) have been incredibly helpful to my drawing, and now to my sculpting.

I hope to have pics of my sculpting progress on Coolminiornot.com soon. I’ve decided to sculpt Dr. Horrible, of Dr. Horrible’s Sing-a-long blog. If you haven’t seen it, it’s fall-down funny: