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lowpoly · Posted: Mon Aug 04, 2003 5:42 am

Down the street in the park somebody installed a couple of sculpture workplaces. Some guys do wood sculptures, others soapstone. Some are painting. It's available every day and free. Sometimes hard work is followed by a barbecue at the same place.

I decided to do something small where I already knew a bit of the anatomy so I didn't have to bring tons of reference. Done in the direct carving method with hammer and chisel. Lifesize.

Marble comes with built-in translucency:

All the tools you need for this, worth about $35:

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Tinusch · Posted: Mon Aug 04, 2003 6:33 am

That's crazy. Very good. If you painted that up, it could pass as a real one, aside from the block of marble attached to it. Great job. That would make a freaky paperweight.

amichaels · member Member # Joined: 28 Mar 2003 Posts: 105

Now that's one thing I would love to learn to do. It looks very real.

kakikukeko · Posted: Mon Aug 04, 2003 9:07 am

Wow very impressive!
it looks very natural!
nothing else to say! Smile

Meaty Ogre · Posted: Mon Aug 04, 2003 10:01 am

Samburger · member Member # Joined: 25 Dec 2001 Posts: 55

*drools

this reminds me so much of the music video for "Schism" by Tool. excellent work. makes me want to get into sculpture

lowpoly · Posted: Tue Aug 05, 2003 4:34 am

Thanks everyone. Smile

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Bobuke · Posted: Wed Aug 06, 2003 2:31 am

...I would appreciate if somebody arranged such a workshop for free in one of the parks where I live! ...and if you where my teacher I would be entirely happy! Wink

This work of yours is a little masterpeace.
I never stop beeing astonished by the skill of so many people posting their artwork here!
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tilokani · Posted: Wed Aug 06, 2003 7:06 pm

christ, that's impressive

totally schism, as samburger pointed out

great work
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lowpoly · Posted: Thu Aug 07, 2003 2:38 am

Thanks for the comments.

Bobuke: I need a teacher myself. Very Happy

tilokani: As you mentioned that video too I looked it up:

Funny.
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tilokani · Posted: Thu Aug 07, 2003 2:10 pm

you know what'd be neat though, don't mean to blabber on, but if you constructed an entire head. Each part made from individual ones like the ear. I mean as if you made another ear, two eyes, a nose, etc. each on a block, and you stacked them on each other for an abstract face... Wink

pretty neat idea.

you're workign with marble though, so dunno how much that'd cost.
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lowpoly · Posted: Fri Aug 08, 2003 6:53 am

Yeah, I had that idea as well - doing a whole face from parts. It would actually be cheap because these are broken floor/wall tiles from the trash bin.

However, chiseling is fun. Working at small pieces like this means you barely touch the chisel with the hammer after the initial rough-in. So I'd rather do something bigger. With a better ratio between rough and detail work.

The advantage of small stones is that you can take them wherever you go.

If I don't manage to find a bigger marble block in time I might actually do it. Stacking them is a cool idea. I was more thinking of connecting them, leaving space in-between.
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