Bodyparts: Thorax
January 2008
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When I was done with my anatomy studies, the next step was to transfer the knowledge into form. This sounds quite easy. When you know where the muscles and bones are, it should be no problem to sculpt something that looks correct. So I started sculpting and put in all the muscles, bony landmarks and everything I have learned. When I was finished, I stepped back, examined what I have build and was happy with the result – for a few seconds. Then I was really shocked. Although every anatomical part was on the right place, the model looked “death”. I moved on to the next sculpt, but same problem here. It was a stiff something that had similarity with a torso, an arm, a hand or a head but it had no life in it. It was a boring accumulation of body parts.
Bodyparts: Pelvis
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Knowing the name of muscles and bones, their origin and insertion, is something totally different then knowing how they expand in three dimensional spaces. I think you need both to solve the task of building a working figure. I’m still trying to bring these two worlds together. To reach perfection it would take more than one life (except you’re the next Michelangelo). If you are able to use your anatomical knowledge and the knowledge about shape together during the sculpting session and doing that kinda intuitive, then the door is open to express yourself through the sculpture (at least I think so, I’m still far away from that point).
Bodyparts: Antebrachius
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I’ve deliberately left myself time for many speed-sculpting sessions. I jump from hands to feet, from thorax to face features and back to hands again. When I wasn’t able to sculpt a part decent, I went back to my drawing table and the anatomy books.
Bodyparts: Cranium
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Sometimes a shape can be that complex that you need days to understand how it works. For example, the bones of the pelvis are twisted a few times and it’s everything else than obvious how they are connected. Now you’ll say that you never see the pelvis of a human figure because it lies deep under muscles. Let me tell you, that’s a false conclusion. You can’t model the outside if you don’t know a little bit of the inside, too. And it’s not true that you can’t see anything from the underlying structure.
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The only way to improve your skills is training. Do as many of these quick sculpting sessions as you can. The models don’t have to be perfect or ready to be published. Do it just for your one. If I browse through my speed-sculpting folders I can see that I became slightly better from one model to the other. But there’s still a lot to be done.
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September 30th, 2008 at 12:31 pm
Very good and acurate studies.
Thanks for share!.
September 30th, 2008 at 10:27 pm
Hi
Incredible sculpting ability and sense for details. 🙂
Are you self-taught?
Good luck.
October 1st, 2008 at 4:51 pm
Geza Kadas says:
September 30th, 2008 at 10:27 pm
Hi
Incredible sculpting ability and sense for details.
Are you self-taught?
Good luck.
Hi, thank you! Yes, I am self-thaught
October 7th, 2008 at 6:42 pm
O~M~G !!
Thanks for sharing your path in sculpting.you encourage me to challenge it again.thanks
November 17th, 2008 at 9:41 pm
Hi,
Fantastic pieces of art!
The torax and the antebrachius are perfect.
Comliments from a fanatic of yours.
Mattia
January 15th, 2009 at 12:48 am
wow you are my master , I love you work , this is the fist thing for to leaarns scuplt real and amazing figures like you, I am Fan
April 27th, 2009 at 10:06 pm
Capperi, complimenti per tutto quello che fai! Io sono uno scultore tradizionale e devo dire che le tue opere sono per me uno vero godimento degli occhi. Si scoprono finezze del modellato che magari in una foto o dal vero non si coglierebbero con tanta evidenza. Ancora complimenti di cuore!!
July 2nd, 2009 at 12:28 am
It’s great! Much helpful for a beginier like me. Thanx
September 13th, 2009 at 6:19 pm
Great work….and a great inspiration…thanx for sharing
October 19th, 2009 at 12:30 am
Hallo, wir haben schon mal cyber-gesprochen, bin ein illustrator aus Bozen (cgtalk)
habs endlich zu deiner homepage geschafft- ein ideal playground um mich weiterzubilden.
liebe grüsse
lip
November 2nd, 2009 at 12:48 am
congratulation for your work,
very inspiring, i myslef go back to root and need to reopen book and get back to the old Knowledge that was left by the ancient.
never turn back to old school, congratulation again 🙂
November 6th, 2009 at 11:26 am
Very Impressive work.
I prefer to work like you mostly in anatomy sculpting.
August 16th, 2010 at 4:19 am
hello selwy, I have to say this site is very inspirational. Do you use base meshes for any of these sculpts or do you just use zspheres?
October 19th, 2012 at 4:06 am
Hello, works very well!I was a university student from China, I would like to ask about the method of learning artistic anatomy, times Thank you very much!