Modeling an auroch bull

It looks very promising and it is great to see all this excitment around your sculpture.
Thanks for updating all steps of your work, it can be very useful to other members.

Oh Miguel, what a beautiful project! :) I'd like to see more pictures of the process when it grows.
About fur, here's my tip: sometimes, before making fur, and as Ana said you spend a lot of time on it, I use to take a separate piece of clay and I make there several attempts. It's good to work with a piece that won't be in the figure, because then you're able to try experiments that maybe you won't make on the figure... and it shows you new ways of giving texture :)

This becomes more and more interesting, - so many tips and good advice  

Thank you very much Ana, Elephas, Joan.. All your tips are being helpful !!!.  

Miguel

elephas_maximus wrote:

Also, to avoid cracking don't take the sculpture out of the oven until it has cooled down completely.  Rapid changes in temperature can cause cracking, such as from a hot oven to room temperature.

Thanks for this tip Andrew, I will do that in future.

The process continues. Defining more forms, eyes, nose...

Adding hooves and tail


Miguel

It looks amazing Miguel! I can't believe you haven't tried modelling before, you are sooo talented!

Fisva wrote:

It looks amazing Miguel! I can't believe you haven't tried modelling before, you are sooo talented!

Exactly my words!

It looks great! It's a lot of fun to see your progress, too! Keep up the good work!

Absolutely stunning !! I really can't believe you did not make any school:cheers: you are particularly gifted it's a great work and great choice...if you are so good in sculpting you should be a master in making moulds and copies     please say yes !!

really wonderful! thank you for sharing these various stages with us!

Hello again friends !! .
Fisva, Pm, Schleich_...I have to say that my profession is archeology and art restorer and have always been surrounded by this world. But I never really had tried to model a figure of this kind, and I have to say I'm enjoying a lot !!

Miguel

The process continues...





Finishing the skin texture, thanks to the good advice of Ana, Joan, Elephas..



Miguel

Wow, amazing!!!     It's realy great work    

Very nice skin texturing! Love it!

I want to present the final results of this work with respect to the modeling of forms. What I would do is  give color to the figure of the animal based on paleontological and historical information on how should look like.

Hope you enjoy the pics !!















Miguel

It's absolutely beautiful!  I can't believe this is your first sculpt! Congrats!    

This guy is.... incredible! Fantastic job, and I cannot believe it is your first sculpture. Congrats on such a great creation! And I can't wait to see it painted.

Ana wrote:

Wow, amazing!!!     It's realy great work    

Fantastic job!     
but what is the material you use?     

He's marvelous, I love his horns and muscle detail, he's beautiful Miguel

Amazing again, I can't wait to see it painted. It's indeed hard to believe it's your first attempt, you have real talent!

Wonderful! I agree with Ana: I can't wait to see him painted. Great work!

Really really great work. Nice Miguel.        

Great

Thanks again for your words !! 

lucky luke wrote:

Ana wrote:

Wow, amazing!!!     It's realy great work    

Fantastic job!      
but what is the material you use?     

Luky, the mastic material is modeled with heat hardening : Super Sculpey.

Pm64, Maybe make a mold and copies for friends but I really do not know if I compensated and if it is too hard to do or not.

Miguel