7embre Posted January 10 Report Posted January 10 Hello! I got inspired by the anime "Maria-sama ga miteru" a while ago, and decided to build a replica of the statue of St. Maria from it. It lacks in depths and details in my opinion, so I may mark it as a partial fail. But, I'd rather leave it here, rather than send it into the obscurity. And so I wonder: how everyone's experience with sculpting a statue have been? Mind sharing it here? 10 1 1 1
Maelstrom Posted January 10 Report Posted January 10 That's GORGEOUS! And a lot better than my chiseling/artistic skills. 2
Lanceleoghauni Posted January 10 Report Posted January 10 it's captured that sort of weathered/worn kind of look. It may not be a pristine statue, but it carries an air of age. The details are still fully legible, though. So I don't think it's a failure at all given the constraints. if you wanted you could try rotating the chiseled blocks and carving out the interiors to give it more depth, before rotating them back into position? 3
7embre Posted January 10 Author Report Posted January 10 4 hours ago, Maelstrom said: That's GORGEOUS! And a lot better than my chiseling/artistic skills. Thanks! 3 hours ago, Lanceleoghauni said: it's captured that sort of weathered/worn kind of look. It may not be a pristine statue, but it carries an air of age. The details are still fully legible, though. So I don't think it's a failure at all given the constraints. if you wanted you could try rotating the chiseled blocks and carving out the interiors to give it more depth, before rotating them back into position? Well, I decided to go with these colors in the first place in order to have wider palette of conglomerate-granite-smooth granite, as making small details, shading and ornamenting at this scale by subtracting material is nearly impossible. But yeah, I see that it would look better if carved in chalk or marble, that's for sure. The lack of depth is probably due to my reluctance to add new blocks and due to the fact that I'm no sculptor, so it's pretty hard for me to see where that volume of material goes. And the fact that the last time I've drawn a person was in the second school grade (almost 20 years ago) doesn't help it, too, haha I consider it a "partial failure" because I missed the proportions, too - statue went a little bit too wide, so fixing it would require the amount of efforts comparable to building a new one. I chiseled this one in, like, what, 3-4 hours?.. Not that many blocks (about 10 or 12 per side), and, given the design, I was able to essentially do most of the work for only one side, and then mirror it to the other. Still, I'm glad that I finished that one - dropping the project midway through would be a "complete failure". I think it went okay for the first time carving a statue. Probably should've picked a little less spicy theme for carving, so that my actions wouldn't be considered blasphemy in any way, but oh well. But, I mean, can I really call myself a "chisel enthusiast" if I didn't want to carve this statue the first time I saw it in anime? 2
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