01-16-2009, 05:51 AM
(This post was last modified: 01-16-2009, 05:56 AM by carter1010.)
I sincerely appreciate the time and effort you put into that post and as I did with Fred (up until I trashed him) will take everything you said into consideration. I am working from a Doug Bradlely life cast which is very helpful. I did exagerate the brow quite a bit and that is primarily because once the form is all white, I wanted to make sure that the expression was still prevelant. I have seen to many pinheads, where it becomes a white ball with pins in it because everything sorta gets a bit washed out. The grid helped me to see alot of issues and I did put some the pins in place for a bit just to see what it did to the piece as a whole and it seemed that it was the primary figure, or that which drew your eye most, all the shadows and reflective surfaces of the nails themselves. I am also having a hard time working on an armature and figuring out how much to increase the size and account for shrinkage of the finished piece. Any advice on these items, building up an armature with clay, and increasing scale to the appropriate size would be greatly appreciated. Oh yea, And if you look at images of Mr. Bradley, the dude has some ears. Thats another area I am kinda struggling with cause they are huge. Thanks again, and no your post was not harsh at all, and honestly is the only thing that will make me better. carter