Comment on Her Majesty by Inna-Vjuzhanina
Yep, true. There are a lot of art categories people just love bashing thinking it's so easy until they try to do that themselves for serious. When I was just starting out and was a pretty much naive beginner idiot I also considered some categories to be so easy, nope. Now I learned to have respect for every medium, there are truly no easy things in art.
Not surprising at all, every master is a lifetime student. If you think u've learned enough, that's pretty much a sad end. The more you learn the more you realize how little you know and how much more you need to learn.
I definitely want to learn ZBrush, people say it's like sculpting. For now it's getting to work with my hands in real life. Not clay though. Wait for it... plasticine!
Weeee, elementary school all over again. It's just the fastest and cleanest way. Not helping with the pose, 'cause a sculpt would need to be really precise, but great for complex lighting. You just reduce a figure to some basic shapes (pretty much what is taught at anatomy courses, boxes and cones and all that good stuff) and voila, done! 
Not surprising at all, every master is a lifetime student. If you think u've learned enough, that's pretty much a sad end. The more you learn the more you realize how little you know and how much more you need to learn.
I definitely want to learn ZBrush, people say it's like sculpting. For now it's getting to work with my hands in real life. Not clay though. Wait for it... plasticine!
Weeee, elementary school all over again. It's just the fastest and cleanest way. Not helping with the pose, 'cause a sculpt would need to be really precise, but great for complex lighting. You just reduce a figure to some basic shapes (pretty much what is taught at anatomy courses, boxes and cones and all that good stuff) and voila, done! 
hey! Don't dis the Plasticine! That's what I started with in.... first grade. Modeled with it well into my adulthood, and still sometimes break it out just for fun. When I was working with computer programming, I used to go around after hours and make little Plasticine figures -- dragons and gargoyles and such -- and leave them on people's computer monitors to find in the morning. Great fun. 
I use it sometimes to figure out a pose, because it often bends easier than natural clay, so I can experiment without things falling apart so much.
I like to use it with kids because it's clean, cheap, doesn't dry out and crack, and it's way, way better than Play-Doh.
I use it sometimes to figure out a pose, because it often bends easier than natural clay, so I can experiment without things falling apart so much.
I like to use it with kids because it's clean, cheap, doesn't dry out and crack, and it's way, way better than Play-Doh.
Wow, those little guys look adorable! Really great surprise your colleagues got And yep, totally so, cheap and clean and fast. Perfect thing!
And yep, totally so, cheap and clean and fast. Perfect thing!I'm going to see my grandkids in a couple of weeks. Have to make sure I pack lots of modeling clay with me. (Well, actually I'm pretty sure my daughter will have a good supply for us to play with when we get there. She's good at that... )
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