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The Glory and the Grace

Started as a study from a Michelangelo bozzetto I had on my desk, and I decided to make it into my sculpt - a full ecorche, whilst keeping as much of the crazy exaggerations and distortions from the original sculpt.

Renders done in zbrush, with some comp work in photoshop.

Patroclus, study from Jacques-louis David

Started over a year ago, and forgotten about. A bit rough and ready, but it's done because I say it's done.

Olympia - new gesture sculpt and tutorial

Since I started the digital sculpting class at Double Negative over a year ago, I've always promised that I would do a tutorial running through how I approach a zbrush sculpt when working with the model.

Well here it is. It tips the scales at just over 2 hours long, which I know is a stretch, but I did feel that if I sped it all up more it'd be quite difficult to follow. I've chopped it into 4 parts to make it a bit more easily digestible. The sculpt is done over two 3-hour sessions with the model, plus some extra without the model.

There's a couple of weird things that I do in there because I was also doing it as a live demo for sculpture students at the Florence Academy of Art, but hopefully it's nothing too distracting.

It's all uploaded to vimeo, here are the direct links:

Part One
Part Two
Part Three
Part Four

and just a turntable of the final sculpt is here:

Olympia Turntable

Charcoal/chalk drawing timelapse

Timelapse from several sessions of a large charcoal drawing.

I took a photo every 2-3 hours, from the start, although forgot to take a photo on the final day before I framed the damn thing, so the video finishes on the neeearly complete drawing.

Photos are all snaps on my phone, so there's lens distortion and all sorts of nastiness going on.

It's not a how to or anything, just did it for my own interest.

Charcoal/Chalk or Graphite drawings

All taken on a camera phone, excuse the dodgy photo quality.

Alice - 3/4 life size

Study from Durer

Study from Durer's "Study for Saint Jerome", charcoal and white chalk on grey Roma paper.

Spent an afternoon on this, then abandoned it for a year, like it was an elderly relative. Finally revisited it this weekend!

Florence, June 2012

Well, went back to Florence for the summer, to try my hand out at painting. Turns out painting is stupidly difficult. Stick to playing computer games. Anyway, this entry comes with some free sketches

Eamonn Redux

Same sculpt as a couple of posts ago, with 2-3 of hours work without the model, which let me free up and not really worry about the likeness so much. Happier with this version, although he'll still find his way into the bin soon enough...

The dancer

Dear Mr.Model, I cannot remember your name, but thank you very much for the great pose.

This sculpt ran over 2 sessions, I've recorded them and I'll stick them up at some point.

Eamonn

Clay sculpt that I've done over several Saturday sessions at LARA (drawpaintsculpt.com)

Wes, week 2

Built for War, concept

I have an idea for a series of clay sculptures, this is a sketch for the first one that I did over the weekend. Hopefully you'll be seeing a lot more of this guy.

Wes, week 1

This will be another 2 session pose. I really feel like I need the extra session this time...

Lucy - week 2

Same, but different

Presentation at ESCAC, Barcelona

It's late notice I know, but tomorrow evening I'll be doing a presentation at the ESCAC film school in sunny Barcelona. I'll be talking about the importance of design fundamentals in visual effects, and talking about the work I've done recently as shot sculpt supervisor on John Carter at Double Negative, as well as some of Dneg's other work on the film.

There will be a screening of Avatar, followed by several presentations by VFX proffessionals. If you're down, you can register here (I think) -

http://www.escac.es/avatar/

Lucy - Long pose, week 1

This pose is going to last for 2 sessions, let's see where it goes...

I've also just realised that I don't think I've ever mentioned the blog where my colleagues are putting their work. Very rude of me! So lovely work going on there, please take a stroll and take a look - www.nudeatwork.blogspot.co.uk 

Sketches

No sculpture this week, but in the interests of keeping my wee blog's new found momentum going, here are a couple of quick sketches from casts I have in my living room. One is from the head of the Laocoon, and the other from Barye's "Walking Lion" (I got that cast for a great price because a child has scrawled "Bad lion" on the side). The crazy vignette isn't me trying to be artistic, seems the camera on my phone isn't the best...

Another one - Lucy

Great model, great pose, but I stuttered a little bit on the sculpt.Oh well. Bank holiday next week, updates to continue after that.