Modeling Torsos with Clay
Relationship between bones and muscles
A course by José Manuel Martínez Pérez , Sculptor and Illustrator
Joined May 2022
About the video: Relationship between bones and muscles
Overview
“Finally, we are going to draw on the clay the main relationships that exist between bones and muscles. This will help give more dynamics to the exercise.”
In this video lesson José Manuel Martínez Pérez addresses the topic: Relationship between bones and muscles, which is part of the Domestika online course: Modeling Torsos with Clay. Dive into figurative sculpture and learn to model an expressive male torso, focusing on human musculature and bone structure.
Partial transcription of the video
“relationship between bones and muscles In this new lesson we will mark with our toothpick the location of each muscle and the relationship between muscle and bone structure so that an essential unity remains situation of the entire anatomy. Once I melted all the essential volumes that I checked earlier, I need to recover certain things to give more expression to the situation of the muscle and to the pressures or tensions offered by the rib cage with respect to those muscle layers. Then, in a clear and marked way, I am going to try to locate all the muscles that remain on the surface of our...”
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Course summary for: Modeling Torsos with Clay
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Areas
Fine Arts, Sculpture

José Manuel Martínez Pérez
A course by José Manuel Martínez Pérez
The human body, its ability to express emotions and its dynamics represent the center of the creative work of the sculptor and draftsman José Manuel Martínez. In his career he has been recognized with the 56th Reina Sofía Prize for Painting and Sculpture (AEPE), the "Miguel Blay y Fábregas" sculpture medal and the honorable mention twice in the "Figurativas 2019/2021" contest.
He has materialized public commissions such as the tribute bust to Don José Folgado Blanco (2021), the monument to Alonso Barba (2019), the monument to the Elderly and to the Virgin Bella (2007), among others. His work can be seen at the European Museum of Modern Art in Barcelona (MEAM) or at the Museum of Contemporary Art of Sicily in Catania (MACS). In addition, he combines his work as a sculptor with that of a professor of anatomy and natural drawing at the Escuela Superior de Dibujo Profesional (ESDIP) in Madrid.
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