My first handmade figure: Male gaur (1:40)

Hello. My name is David, I'm from Spain, and this is my first post.
First at all, congratulations to everybody for such an interesting forum, without a doubt the best site to enjoy and learn on this hobby of miniature animal replicas.
A few days ago I decided to model my very first miniature, and (as expected) I have realised the extreme difficulty of this art.
Nevertheless, since I have seen how kindly advised are the novice sculptors in the forum, here you are:
my male (scratching) gaur Bos gaurus.
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Obviously, it is still unfinished, and I would appreciate any coment to improve it (sorry for the low quality of the picture).
Thanks in advance...

It looks very nice. Great work!
Welcome to the forum.

Hello David and first of all welcome to this forum. I really hope we'll see more of you; both your own sculptures and your collection. About this sculpture: I'm actually speechless You say this is your first try? It's looking so good, as if you've been doing this for years! I can't help you any further with advising about it, because I find anatomy very difficult and I'm not as professional with sculpting as some others here on the forum. But I just want to say: please continue sculpting and I'd love to see more of you - much more! Thanks for sharing!

Welcome on this wonderful forum David :)
I realy like your style of sculpting ...it is like piece of art, with your own style :)
Please, can you show us, bigger and more photos...like small walkaround? :)
It look`s very promising model :)

Wowee!!

What a great style.

I love it

Thanks to everybody!
I'll try to show you other (and better) photos; this one, shot with the PC camera, was poorly detailed as well as deformed.
Thanks again, friends.

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Welcome on this wonderful forum David :)
I realy like your style of sculpting ...it is like piece of art, with your own style :)
Please, can you show us, bigger and more photos...like small walkaround? :)
It look`s very promising model :)

I can't put it better, - it is fantastic

And wellcome from me also

Welcome, you come in with a great topic
I also can't say nothing about anatomy or give you any help about your sculpture.
What I can say is that I think it looks great already, can't wait to see it painted :3

Hope you have a great time here and thank you for complementing this forum

Ola David! Another artist from Spain, how great!
Kosta is also an artist and he loves art. Your gaur has a lot of expressiveness so comments are not easy once we dont' want to remove your remarkable style from it. Though, if you want our suggestions to turn it as much realistic as possible, we'll need larger and better pictures for sure. From now, a big welcome from Portugal, a big congratulation for your talent and a big thanks for your words!

Welcome David!!!!

I think you have a great personal style with deep personality and really intense expressiveness. It looks having some beautiful oriental influence... I really like!!!

I have no clear idea how we can help you if you want to develop pieces of art as for sure this one is.

A quite different thing is if you want to make replicas of animals as realistic as possible, with marked scientific sensibility...then we need more and better pictures from different points of view (what is called "walkaround"). However, even if you want to go through this option, I recommend you keep making from time to time animal figures using your own personal and promising style...

Any way, I really wish you keep showing us your future works...

Congrats!!!

Welcome here David. Great to have more member here.
Amazing gaur. Wish to see it painted.
Thanks.

Welcome here!
It looks very nice! I can see your stylisation and I like it.

Welcome here! And nice work, congratulations :)

It looks really good! I think it's great, especially for the first trial! I would also like to see more photos from more angles
Welcome on forum!

A few photos from different angles:

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I've tried to include some degree of asymmetry in the pose (mainly in the head), because although bovids are magnificent animals and I really like them a lot... they are truly inexpressive and bulky! Besides, one of the eyes more closed than the other tries to suggest the acute pleasure of reaching with the horn an itchy and irritating tick...

Thanks!!

Thank you for the photos, he is nice!
I love that you made one eye closed, you really can see the pleasure of him scratching :3 <3

It's a fabulous piece, I love the artistic style and the musculature is superb. First ever sculpture

Great job!
I even can't believe that you first homemade model

I don't dare to suggest anything even if it disappoints you. The strongest point of this figure is its expressiveness as I told you and any suggestion could only turn it less artistic. I think you shall conclude this work being faithful to your ideas and maybe next time we can help you best with something less expressive...

Welcome here! And nice work, congratulations :)

OK! Thank you very much for your friendly comments.
Let's paint it! Or better yet: let's paint them! In the meantime I've tried on a 'girl' for my big boy:

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See you!

Very nice gaur, congratulations!

Wow !!. I find it very interesting and with a very personal style. Especially for your first sculptures.
Congratulations David !

Beautiful couple!!! I like them very much.

Finally, I've finished my two practice models. I've enjoyed a lot, and I will try more animals, for sure.
Thank you very much for your positive and kind comments. See you after hollydays!

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What a beautiful pair you both sculpted and painted! Thank you so much for sharing! I just can't believe these are your first sculptures; they're so wonderful! I totally love their characteristics; you have a lovely style. I'm really looking forward to see more from you, David

I think spectacular figures, with very good paint job and a very personal style. I'm amazed !!. Congratulations David !

Wonderful indeed! I hope you have fantastic holidays and we are here waiting to see your new works! If you start like that I am sure your future will be brilliant!

Very good works David!!! I hope you continue showing us your new models.

Very nice! They have unique style indeed. Congratulations!

Amazing job I missed a lot of good things the last months

A first attempt and you already have your own touch', no doubt we will see more beauties from you very soon. Welcome and thank you to be here

Gosh ! I also missed both the cow and the painted versions

All I can add to all the comments, - they are absolutely STUNNING

Hi again,
I would like to show you my gaurs on a much better photo, as well as the following figures I am trying on. After my first 'bulky' approaches on bovids, now I'm trying more slender animals to learn the pros and cons of modeling thinner legs, beaks and horns (a black faced impala Aepyceros petersi, and a white stork Ciconia ciconia). Besides, I am also working on much larger sizes (the "tiger", in fact an extinct sabertooth: Lokotunjailurus sp.). As always, your comments and suggestions will be very useful for my learning.

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Oh wow, David, they are all gorgeous I already really liked your two gaurs, and it's great to see these photos of them. But I really like your three new sculptures as well! They a look pretty realistic, but still with your own style. Love them, well done

David, I missed this last post. Your figures are lloking really great, I know some have already developed but I wanted to tell you that I find them very nicely done.

Very beautieful figurines :)

Wow !! Nice figures full of personality !.

I've only just seen these, they are truly stunning. I can't wait to see the 3 newest additions finished, and i'm curious about your future projects

Congratulations great job I particularly like the stork

Wonderful impala!! Congrats :) Very nice job with all your models

Beautiful models! I love especially the impala and the stork! Amazing work on them!

very good work!
congratulations!
I'm looking forward to see yor next models

Retoric

Congratulations so wonderful models there!