Building Lifelike Sculptures with LEGO
The Head and Neck
A course by Samuel Hatmaker , LEGO Artist
About the video: The Head and Neck
Overview
“In this lesson, I will build the head and neck of my project: the peacock. This is the time to give your model personality and movement. ”
In this video lesson Samuel Hatmaker addresses the topic: The Head and Neck, which is part of the Domestika online course: Building Lifelike Sculptures with LEGO. Learn to bring your design ideas to life by creating unique and versatile sculptures from start to finish using LEGO.
Partial transcription of the video
“ The Head and Neck Now that we've learned more about basic shapes and colors, in this lesson, we'll build our model. I'll start with the head and the neck of the bird. The peacock's beak is white, so I wanted to give it a very simple rounded shape like the peacock. Other birds may have a hooked nose and you'll use different parts for that. I'll build a ball joint into the bird's head very low on the body for the head to be able to move. I'm putting the ball joint on the head section. Now I'm getting the eye section. I know on a peacock's details behind the eyes they're very dark, so I'm us...”
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Course summary for: Building Lifelike Sculptures with LEGO
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Art Toys, Arts & Crafts
Samuel Hatmaker
A course by Samuel Hatmaker
Samuel Hatmaker is a toymaker from Michigan who spent two decades designing and developing children’s toys in New York City. As a lifelong LEGO fan, he rediscovered his childhood passion after a ten-year hiatus and started building LEGO sculptures with his technical knowledge of toy design. His model inspired by The Golden Girls went viral on social media, encouraging him to tackle more large-scale projects like his portrait series Chicks with Bricks, a collection of realistic LEGO mosaics depicting pop icons.
In 2020, Samuel appeared as a contestant on the first season of LEGO Masters, and his art has been displayed in galleries all over the world, including the Comic-Con Museum in San Diego and Art Basel in Miami. As a prolific toymaker, he has also created toys for renowned brands such as Marvel, DC, Hello Kitty, Nickelodeon, Disney, Crayola, Mattel, Hasbro, and more.
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