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This is a quick maquette sculpt for the gymnast I'll be working on next. This is 16" tall. I only spent around 2 hours on this to get the proportions and pose laid out. Not too concerned about details yet. I'll be measuring up this one and making the armature for the larger one next week. I'll try and remember to take some in progress shots as I work on it.Related content
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Wow! I love how you can see all the details in the muscles and everything.
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2 hours... very impressing indeed (if the time is right measured 
whats the difference between J-mac classic clay and Chavant clay? i wanna try one oil-based clay myself one day.
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J-mac is usually softer and less sticky.
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thx.
and dont get me wrong: your skill is awesome. you dont seem to do the most innovative figures, but youΒ΄re doing so great smooth and real looking ones. simply fantastic.
keep it up, so many people adore your works!
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great! and just in two hours. you really are amazing.
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2 hours!
Something like this would take me 2 weeks...then the anatomy would be wrong
Awesome stuff.
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I was gonna ask how you managed to keep that thing balanced, but then I saw the rod going into the back. Ha ha! Awesome job! ^_^
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Please, please, more step by step you are wonderful sculpting...
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finally a work in progress shot from you!!! thanks
its really great to see how you do this stuff
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It is so wonderful to see some Wips from you. I will look forward to seeing the process
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A beautiful maquette. It could be a nice, loose sculpt as is and cast in bronze. It's nice to see how quickly you can bulk up the sculpt (2 hours). That would be me at my very fastest, and I still don't know that I could bulk it as nice as you have. My hat's off to you again.
Cheers!!
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you must have been sculpting for a pretty long time after such a long while do you ever have days where its hard to get started or is it easy for your now?
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More often than you might think.
I have a hard time finishing up a sculpture if it's for myself. If it's a commissioned piece or a contracted project for another company then I have a lot more incentive to finish the sculpt...
Getting paid.
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This makes me want to go dig out my clay.. wherever it wandered off to that is.
Never ever move. I can't find half my stuff.
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You'll love this.
I've seen people sell things that look like this as finished pieces.
You rock, dude.
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I do love this loose, fresh type of sculpture.
These definitely can be considered finished sculpture if they were cast in another material such as bronze.
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you should leave it this way. like with most drawings it loses so much heart and feeling in the final, '
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Your knowledge of human anatomy never ceases to amaze me, and I know I've said that countless times before
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WOW wow wow.
I saw your volleyball piece also. Amazing too. I was wondering how these are going to be displayed. With sculptures 2/3 scale i usually seem in a standing or sitting pose, but these two are in the air and upside down. Will they also have the arm/pin in the back?
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They will be displayed mounted on a wall.
There are some other sports figure sculptures I did about 4 years ago for another building at Stanford shown in my gallery that are mounted the way these will be. Football, basketball, diving, tennis and baseball. Check them out.
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omg dude! how could you?!...WHY?!!...Why wud u stick a pole in someon'es back, why?! LOL! great jpb, very cool indeed!
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hey mark ....can i ask you just 2 little things//??
what is this material? Clay/??
and how much it costs where you buy it?
just because here in brazil is a difficult place to find some materials and it becomes a little expensive...
thanks man...and congrats one more time
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This clay is oil base clay. J-mac classic clay similar to Chavant oil base clay. This costs around $2.50 per pound. It usually comes in 10 lb. slabs.
I usually buy it in 50 lb. cases.
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that price is amazing compared to super sculpy
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oil based clay doesn't harden. So do you just use this for mock up and practice?
Have you even molded something that was made in oil based clay? I would be afraid of messing it up.
Any as usually i am ultra jealous of you fine work
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That's right. This will probably be torn down after I use it as reference for the larger one. The larger one will also be sculpted in oil base clay. Then it'll be molded at the foundry and cast in bronze.
I don't make my own molds anymore. I leave it to the professionals.
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Just wanted to clarify my last comment- I meant to say "have you ever molded..." The typo looks kinda rude, sorry 'bout that.
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many thanks man!
when i have something to show i'll tell you....so you could laugh a little hehehe..
Cheers buddy!
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Only 2 hours.. :S ....???? Truly amazing!!!!
Mark, You are like the sculpture Zen Master man 
Looking forward seeing the progress and the final sculpture.
Cheers
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Wow, you have such mastery over the human form. Even though this was done quickly and relatively rough compared to your other sculptures the muscles really nicely.
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Man, I wish my undetailed PlayDougs would like like this. (actually I have tried Sculpey but never managed something good)
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This is sculpted in Oil based clay.
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Id still could not do it, because you did a really nice job and Im still a potatoe on sculting lol. Ill have to practice a lot more.
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I wish I could someday sculpt just a seed bit like you
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Very nice indeed. It's a shame you have to have that pin in the middle of the back. I suppose it wouldn't be possible to weight the head sufficiently that it would hang naturally in that inverted position without the need for support?
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