Building Lifelike Sculptures with LEGO
Altering, Dusting, and Repairing the Model
A course by Samuel Hatmaker , LEGO Artist
About the video: Altering, Dusting, and Repairing the Model
Overview
“Let's explore how to showcase your work online! I will walk you through the advantages of sharing your portfolio with other LEGO fans, finding people with similar passions, and improving your building capabilities by responding to feedback and learning new techniques. ”
In this video lesson Samuel Hatmaker addresses the topic: Altering, Dusting, and Repairing the Model, 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
“ Altering, Dusting, and Repairing the Model Now that we've covered many ways to share your model, in this lesson, we'll cover alternate versions and maintenance of your model. The colors you choose for your model don't need to be from the real world. It's all up to you. For a moment, I contemplated making my peacock albino and I made a completely white feather that would fit perfectly into it. There are thousands of ways to solve problems in LEGO. You can achieve angles in many different forms. Here's another way I tried to do the angles of the feathers. This is a click joint. It allows yo...”
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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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