Clay Portrait: Model a Full-Scale Face

Overview

“In this lesson I am going to explain how to take reality as inspiration by understanding how the real scale works. I will show you some authors who work on realism and portraiture in sculpture to better understand how to observe reality.”

In this video lesson Efraïm Rodríguez addresses the topic: Reality as inspiration, the bust as a fragment, which is part of the Domestika online course: Clay Portrait: Model a Full-Scale Face. Create a three-dimensional portrait with your own hands by working with clay to depict every detail of a face .

Partial transcription of the video

“Reality as Inspiration, the Bust as a Fragment In this lesson, I will show you some authors that I keep in mind when modeling busts. For example, Mariano Benlliure, an author who is essential to me for his sense of plasticity, his skills, and resources. For example, in this bust of Goya, which was the inspiration for the Spanish Film Academy awards, although they didn't acknowledge authorship until recently. We see different versions, even sizes. It is actually a fragment of a full-length sculpture that he fragmented perfectly. It is a common resource in sculpture, restructuring at differen...”

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Course summary for: Clay Portrait: Model a Full-Scale Face

• Level: Beginner
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• 5 units
• 33 lessons (7h 34m)
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• Category

  Craft

• Areas

  Fine Arts, Sculpture