Sculpting - Human - Male torso

With some idea and knowledge I've gained with previous works I did, I finally started to begin sculpting. Not rushing it but bit by bit, sculpting each parts of human.

Trying to get the shapes right first, then going on to detail later.

First sculpting I've done in a while with references of my paintings. It feels more realistic and helpful compare to sculptures I did last semester, which was complete 'imagination' style.

Studying - human again

I thought I had to study human anatomy again and maybe rushed a bit - started sculpting again in Zbrush with little knowledge I had, but this time, it wasn't a full sculpture, just a little experiment.

With this experiment, it gives me the idea of how I will be starting my sculptures and what kind of textures would be suitable to put it in.

Animal anatomy study - Elephant

Elephant

Basic simple elephant anatomy (painted) just to get to know their shapes and proportions etc. Elephants unique skin texture was rather interesting.

Human anatomy study - Female

Female Study - Basically same thing I did for male anatomy but in female version.

Female torso & muscle movement

Head anatomy - difference between male and female

Female leg anatomy

Female body anatomy and painted individual body shapes to know differences in each women body structures.

Human anatomy studies - Male

Learning the structures of male anatomy, individual parts.

Learning the general body shapes and muscle structures.

Arm anatomy

Practicing with the facial structure, taking pictures of my own head.

Leg anatomy, painted individual parts to understand even the muscle shapes and differences.

Male torso anatomy

Studying Anatomy - Animal

and secondly, Animal anatomy

Studying Anatomy - Human

So I began studying anatomy, human and animal. To do so, gathering information about their structure was essential. To obtain these knowledge, I began drawing them, rather than looking at the picture, drawing & painting them would mean a lot more to me since I will be doing sculpting later on.

Firstly, human anatomy.

New beginning

 Throughout last semester, I was sculpting whatever I thought it would help me to increase my skill. However, I wasn't looking at the big picture.

 First of all, in last semester, my brief was to create (or) portray my own version of character model by using different materials or using unique techniques to create a character with strong purpose, (as if they are alive – a living creature with personality attached to it and to show where these characters will fit in certain roles or environment. Also, in the end, my aim for future progress was to create more dynamic character designs, further understanding of bone structures of creatures and progress of background + 3D character.

However, there were pros & cons of this brief and aim I have made. 

 Cons

 1^st – Weakness of my sculptures which was it does not have solid structure due to lack of using enough references

 2^nd – Too vague or over textured the character which is another disadvantage of working without knowledge/references

 [3^rd – Spending way too much time in just sculpting which I have neglected the environment part.]

But on the other hand,

Pros

 1^st – It was an instinctive way of sculpting – (so) it was enjoyable & more creative + intuitive way which makes the sculpture with no boundaries.

 2^nd – Because of this instinctive way of sculpting, there were infinite possibilities to enhance the technical skills + boost the confidence using software.

I still lacked the very basic, fundamental knowledge of what I was going to do in the first place. After these errors/mistakes I have made, improvement for this project was absolutely required. First, gathering resources and references of what I’m going to do to advance this situation. Secondly, rather than going into a mixture of character and environment, I might as well just focus on 1 subject and progress further, which was sculpting characters.

Therefore, I scraped up previous work and started working basic sketches and attaining knowledge of human & animal anatomy, rather than continuing with sculpting just coming from my imagination.