Horse finished - page 3

Merry Christmas!

It's been such a busy past 6 weeks there's been no time for sculpting, but finally a chance to get back to what I love. I've nervously started my first horse sculpture - it's 1:15 scale using the poseable 'bones' method that I employed in my Gorilla tutorial. I find this really helps me with proportion. 'Bones' will get a new name soon but for now she's ready to get into her gallop pose!

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Welcome Bones

SO exiting, - I can't wait to see how she develops

Bones looks a bit... thin Very curious how she will end :3

It looks like 'Bones' has great potential! I can't wait to see how she (?) progresses further

Ooh a horse! Are you going for any particular breed?

LeeAnn wrote:

Ooh a horse!    Are you going for any particular breed?

Maybe you can help me ... this is my model. I just chose it because I like the pose but I don't know the breed?

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and a couple of progress shots... about 16hrs work so far.

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I don't know the breed of the horse, but it is a very noble and beautyful one, - and your model already looks fantatsic

As Susanne, I don't know the breed but I agree it is full of majesty

And now, good buy Bones and Hello Fleshy

While I was out giving my beloved little, shaggy horses their breakfast, I suddenly remembered a horse I had here for a summer, - it was a Shagya-Arabian youngster, and even if young, she did look a lot like this beautyful model

Very nice looking sculpture and I like how you began with skeleton Very interesting.
At first when I saw the photo of the real horse I though it may be Arabian but with a big amount of muscles and maybe looking too big for a classical Arabian. And then Susanne said Shagya Arabian and this fit very well to this picture I think

Ana wrote:

Susanne said Shagya Arabian and this fit very well to this picture I think

Thankyou - I'll take your advice and call it a Shagya Now to try to capture all that beautiful muscle movement... I think this is going to be a long project!

Oh stunning! Only thing I would mention is watch that head - horses as Arab blood have dishy heads, your skull looks a little roman nosed. Either way it looks fantastic already!

LeeAnn wrote:

Oh stunning! Only thing I would mention is watch that head - horses as Arab blood have dishy heads, your skull looks a little roman nosed. Either way it looks fantastic already!

Good point

Not relevant, but I just HAVE to mention  that the Nordic thorughbred : Icelandic horse , must not have Roman nose either, - and they must not lift their tail when running

Yes, I'll need to modify the skull a little. It was modelled from a horse skeleton graphic that in hindsight was clearly not Arabian!

What clay/epoxy are you using for this wonderful piece?

Baltimore Zoo wrote:

What clay/epoxy are you using for this wonderful piece?

The skeleton is made of super sculpey and the body is modelled from super sculpey firm.

Here's another update with the musculature coming along now. Sorry it's a bit blurry..

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Lovely!

WOW !

MiniZoo wrote:

Baltimore Zoo wrote:

What clay/epoxy are you using for this wonderful piece?

The skeleton is made of super sculpey and the body is modelled from super sculpey firm.

Here's another update with the musculature coming along now. Sorry it's a bit blurry..

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I would love to be able to do this

Kikimalou wrote:

MiniZoo wrote:

Baltimore Zoo wrote:

What clay/epoxy are you using for this wonderful piece?

The skeleton is made of super sculpey and the body is modelled from super sculpey firm.

Here's another update with the musculature coming along now. Sorry it's a bit blurry..

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I would love to be able to do this  

Me too, I would love to create a binturong, a musk ox and a gelada in figure but it's too difficult and I don't have the patience

Wonderful!

Even without a face this horse already looks amazing.

Looking good so far, I really like the musculature. Your 'bones' technique looks like a good one; do you mind if I use it in the future?

Very, very nice! It seems to be progressing really well now-in a few days I think it may come to life