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He is still far from done "mostly the upper chest/head/face. But any cc would be loved. I will be working on his swordhe is holding behind his back tonight.

anyone?

It's hard to tell by the picture size, can you get a larger picture or get the camera closer to the mini but still focused? It looks good from this distance but I can't comment on anything unless i can get a better look.

I certainly like the overall pose for him, so what I can see works.

The side shot of the sculpt makes it seems like he is in an awkward squat lean...that being said I agree with Tydil. I would like to see a close-up shot to give any better crtitique on the details of the sculpt.

here i think these pics are better





still have to sand down some areas do to some not so gentle blending lol

Torso looks a little long compaired to his legs. I'm not sure about the detail around the back of his neck in the 2nd pic, it's hard to make out.

Rest looks very nice though!

The details and finish are coming along - the main issue is the proportions. "Heroic" scaling can explain away the head size (he's only about 5.5 heads tall) and it doesn't look bad compared with his torso. His shoulders - where the actual joint would be - do appear to be pushed out and down a little to much, though. The saluting arm is looking good, but his other is a little "bendy" - it appears as a mostly uniform curve, instead of a series of effectively straight segments with curved shapes on top.

His biggest issues, however, are below the waist (haven't we all heard that, before! ). Aside from the lower elements being generally too short (anatomical rule of thirds - height of each section should be roughly equal: top of head to waist, waist to top of knees, top of knees to soles of feet - i.e. the legs, counting from the hips/crotch down, should be half the figure's height), the proportions of individual elements to each other are off (groin/hips, thighs, and shins are all roughly equal length). To help illustrate:


Anatomy is probably the more difficult aspect to grasp, for starting sculptors, than the technical skills. For future projects, I'd recommend starting with a good armature (properly proportioned, even if that means building it out of stiff, soldered sections instead of freehanding bends from one or two pieces of wire) to help keep everything in line. If you print it properly scaled, this image (too big to post, in-thread, as I don't know how to resize) can help you lay out the parts for an anatomically correct armature.

Ah ok thank you for the tips. I will finish him up and start on the next. He is the first human I did and I had one huge issue, funny you picked them all out quickly lol.

The legs / left arm/head where all built seperatly. So now that I read through some of that materiel I went and bough some proper measuring tools. So I can measure them with out just best guess. Well his porportions are a bit messed up anyways since he is based of a magna lol. But I need to fix this

I will have one up "hopefully" every week for the next few years.

Oh I need alot of help with this guys because I am trying to make something for my wife and I need to pull it off before we are 50 lol.