my first attempt at sculpting

Finally I decided to start my first sculpture project, advised by Anna (thank you very much! ) and encouraged by my wife

I am a total novice in this field of art, so I leave some photos of the process that started yesterday. I still have some days to finish, anyway.

I'm trying to make a female Sumatran rhino, to 1/23 scale (the same as the Papo rhino)

I would appreciate any comments, suggestions or advice on the process of creation.

after making the skeleton I began to put some clay around it:
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more clay:
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and more
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first volume:
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outlining the shape:
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Yesterday I left the figure in this state, starting work on the detail of the back legs:
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Thank you!!!

She's looking fantastic Joan!! I can see this model is going to be beautiful.
What clay are you using, it looks really good.

Great job, and thanks for the photos

[quote="Abu Rai"]Finally I decided to start my first sculpture project, advised by Anna (thank you very much! ) and encouraged by my wife

I am a total novice in this field of art, so I leave some photos of the process that started yesterday. I still have some days to finish, anyway.

I'm trying to make a female Sumatran rhino, to 1/23 scale (the same as the Papo rhino)

I would appreciate any comments, suggestions or advice on the process of creation.

Yesterday I left the figure in this state, starting work on the detail of the back legs:
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...Hm...By the way on this pic there is good look of exterior and morphology by Sumatran rhino. :) I wish you good luck!

thank you Harriet, I'm using super sculpey firm. It's the first one I use, then I can't compare it

Thanks Phil, I'll post more photos once the figure will be more detailed.

Sergey, let's see if I'm able to finish the figure with enough realism

Thanks for show the process and good luck for your Rino!:)

Abu Rai wrote:

thank you Harriet, I'm using super sculpey firm. It's the first one I use, then I can't compare it

Thanks Phil, I'll post more photos once the figure will be more detailed.

Sergey, let's see if I'm able to finish the figure with enough realism

Ah super sculpey! I was just thinking of ordering some as I've heard such good reviews about it. So do you have to bake it?

Thank you for sharing, for a novice, you Cetes the right school congratulations are eagerly awaiting the result, thank you for the various phases of implementation and good result.
I really have to be able to assist in the development thank you

until now i think it,s great...keep going!

It looks fantastic, - can`t wait to see the final result

Thank you very much for the photoes, it is SO interesting to se , - please go on showing us

Your first attempt? ¡Es genial!

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Ah super sculpey! I was just thinking of ordering some as I've heard such good reviews about it. So do you have to bake it?

Yes Harriet, Sculpey must be baked too... I have some doubts about it because there are thin and thick parts, and time to bake depends on the thickness of the figure

Lucky, Alex, Susanne and Silvia, thank you very much

Abu Rai wrote:

HKHollinstone wrote:

Ah super sculpey! I was just thinking of ordering some as I've heard such good reviews about it. So do you have to bake it?

Yes Harriet, Sculpey must be baked too... I have some doubts about it because there are thin and thick parts, and time to bake depends on the thickness of the figure

Yes, that's a point, I don't know what you'd do about that

Very interesting to see, keep it up and I'm looking forward to the finished model.
I have long planned a Sumatran rhino, but until now had no time .

I wish you much luck and success .
BG

Looking awesome for a first attempt. Can't wait to see it finished.

Wonderful work! Congratulations!

Last weekend I go on with my work. My rhino has not ears yet, but the body is more accurate:

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It looks so beautiful!

Wow. Looking great.

He is great!Keep up with the good work!Good luck!

Well, finally something has happened this weekend.

I was not happy with my Rhino, as I was progressing and accumulating mistakes: too thick legs, tummy very low and rather wide, too many "folds " of skin ...
So I decided that my rhino passed by the surgeon to correct all these mistakes, while my wife threw her hands to her head, "Joan! all that work!" . Now the rhino is better (what do you think?), its position is easier for a newbie like me. These other, the wires forming the skeleton suffered, so that another of my failures was that I chose some wires too thin.

Well, I leave you some pictures of my Sumatran rhino reloaded

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I liked him before, but he does look even better Joan! I love his head

It is phantastic- congratulations!!

Is this difficult? And what is the material, is it expensive? Because, i learn for a male nursery nurse and i ask me, can i do this with children?

Abu Rai wrote:

Well, finally something has happened this weekend.

I was not happy with my Rhino, as I was progressing and accumulating mistakes: too thick legs, tummy very low and rather wide, too many "folds " of skin ...
So I decided that my rhino passed by the surgeon to correct all these mistakes, while my wife threw her hands to her head, "Joan! all that work!" . Now the rhino is better (what do you think?), its position is easier for a newbie like me. These other, the wires forming the skeleton suffered, so that another of my failures was that I chose some wires too thin.

Well, I leave you some pictures of my Sumatran rhino reloaded

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Silvia, aandmkw, Minhea and Harriet, thank you for your comments
widukind, especially is laborious. I use a material called Sculpey, a modeling clay figures and such in my opinion is not expensive, but I do not know if it would be inappropriate for children.
Let's see if that afternoon I have time to go on with that

It looks wonderful !!!
I, too liked the old one, but this is great also

Children may try, but they sure could not make anything nearly near approaching this !!!!!

Thankyou for the pictures, I wait happily for the next chapter of the story