This unit was so great because I really like sculpting no matter how god-damn frustrated I got with how weird my piece looked. It's the first time I've done anything with clay since making one of those terrible little tea-light holders in primary school so I was really looking forward to it. For my main piece after we'd been taught the basics about coiling and slab technique I decided I just wanted to sculpt a head and so I brought in some photos of Audrey Hepburn and Natalie Portman (because they're just so damn beautiful ;__;) to use as a reference. This however did not work out well at all and here's why:
Doing this project made me truly realise how little I understand the face as a 3D form.......and even then my 2D faces aren't much better OTL
About half way through before I added the hair, the head looked like Vladimir Putin. It was really weird ; A :
The face still looked really weird but I couldn't figure out the reason. I eventually realised it must be the proportions of the face setting the whole thing off but I didn't have enough time to re-do the whole face.
ANYWAY, here she is, be warned, she looks nothing like Hepburn or Portman:
The artist I researched for this was Andrew Barton. His work is actually REALLY interesting so I've linked to the timeline of his work from 1993-2012. He gives notes or explanations for his work and clicking the pictures will take you to a gallery of the final piece or the progress pictures.
