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Re: Sculpture Critique From You Horse Knowledge-y Folks?
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Your best bet in doing something like this is to find an actual photo of a horse similar to what you're thinking of sculpting. Then, when you do the sculpture look VERY carefully as to where things line up and then sculpt what you see......not what you think you see. The hardest part of any of this is that we all tend to make shapes that we think are there that aren't. Is the shape of the eye or jowel or neck the shape that you see or is it the shape that you are expecting to see. It's hard to draw or sculpt something off the top of your head until you've done TONS of sketches or sculptures from real life or photos so that you KNOW what the shapes are. Until then the shapes tend to be what you think you see and are not usually accurate.
It's as an instructor told me last year: "I own a Toyota truck and have owned it for 14 years. I know just what it looks like, BUT if I'm here in class and you ask me to draw it I couldn't do it because I haven't tried to do that before. HOWEVER, if I were to sketch that truck 100x and THEN you asked me to draw it from memory I might be able to do it because I've committed those shapes to memory".
I was hoping I'd have a few minutes to download your pictures and photoshop some lines in for you but I don't have the time tonight. I JUST got home from classes and have to work on this paper before I fall in to bed and get up again at 5am to do it all over again. However, I'll TRY to explain.
The first sculpture: I agree, the neck is too short. You could probably eliminate the chest and just arch the bottom line of the neck down to where the bottom of where you have the chest (where the bottom of the chest meets the edge of the background) and the neck would probably be about right. The next issue can be resolved a couple ways. Either the throatlatch and muzzle are too big, or the jowl is too small. Take a look at a photo and take note of how wide the head is from the eye to the bottom of the jowl compared to the muzzle and you'll see that there is a discrepancy in what you have portrayed. The eye appears a little high and too far back, but until the throatlatch/jowl/muzzle thing is resolved it's hard to tell where the eye should be.
The second sculpture: You could say the muzzle is a little large, but it could also be that the forehead is too flat. I think I like the shape of the nose (nice job on the details!) and jowel, but in order to make it work you need more depth from the bottom of the jowl to the forehead. Also, take a good look at how the neck goes in to the head. With the head out like it is your neck is probably not going to curl up quite like that. It's more likely to come out of the throatlatch and arch down to just below where you have the bottom of the mane (the neck is going to be more horizontal than vertical).
"Oh, we are but soft and squishy bags of mortality rolling in a bin of sharp circumstance, leaking life until we collapse, flaccid, into our own despair." --"Fool" by Christopher Moore
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