There is always something you really struggle to do a good job on (unless you are Grim or Ishkur) what is the most problematic thing for you to sculpt and why (N.b. - I left scale mail and beards off because they've been pretty comprehensively covered by Grim and Xander, thanks Guys)
Why isnt there an everything option?
Hm, unfortunate that there is not an "anything" option. However, I suppose that chainmail and cloaks aren't too bad. Weapons I'm not really worried about, as those are easy to just convert. Plate armour I haven't really tried yet, but I'm pretty sure it would be difficult to get right. That leaves bodies and faces, and since I've only tried to sculpt faces so far, faces it is! I need some kind of magic sculpting tool that sculpts the image that's in my head automatically. That way I could just look really hard at something and it would become cool.
Bodies in preportion i reckon for me not tried it yet.Anything actually however i am slowly learning
I cannot sculpt cainmail to save my life
I seem to be okay with everything else, i like to think of faces as my speciality
I seem to get all the organic features of a model, but im not good at armour and weapons
Why isn't there an option for hands?
Thanks
- Kyte
Yeah hands are really hard to do, thats why i cheat and use GW ones!
Anything. No really. Everyone on this site puts my scuplting to shame.
I tried to turn a bfsp dwarf into a chaos dwarf. I would describe it as the worlds most non epic conversion ever. Im hoping the paint job will help to distract everyone from its non epicness. I thought the hardest part to sculpt on it was the face. It looks stupid with big fish eyes etc.
I'm more of gamer than a painter anyway. Just slap some purple on it and its done.
Why isnt there an everything option?
Because as I said in my first post, the object is to see what people find most difficult to sculpt. If I put an everything option then we would have had a lot of very boring posts and not a lot of advice changing hands. The idea for this thread was that people could pick up and dispence advice to other users and hopefully find solutions to their own sculpting difficulties
Why isn't there an option for hands?
Forgot about hands... indeed they are tricky, not sure they're trickier than faces though. I use the "mitton" method myself, but I've see better ones - I just don't have the skill to pull them off yet. My vote went to plate armour, but I may have a new method which I will trial and get back to you on
Occasionally. I'm trying to teach myself how to sculpt, and its going slowly. The plan eventually is to start to sculpt, cast and produce my own armies. At the moment I make hands by making a "mitten" of greenstuff and then adding details like fingers and nails using a needle. Works OK, but I'm looking for a better method
Thats what I do I must admit but sometimes its easier than getting a converted weapon to line up properly
Faces seem the most difficult thing to sculpt for me.
Yeah faces are a pain, check out Ebob it has a pretty good tutorial
Great thread loads of advice enough for me to finish my lamassu statues bighat and make jugger pulled ziggurat for my anvil ,thanks to all(i can take a break from arrow painting)
Usually i just use plastic hands, but if needs must i do the same as AGPO and use the 'mitten method'
That sculpting thing was.....*shivers*, was that nude model really necesary?
Thanks for all those links Ghrask. The sculpt your own mini thread idea sounds great! I think it'd be really useful if we could compile all the sculpting help into a seperate thread. For instance - groms tutorial on how to make weapons. It'd be a great feature for the main site and might advertise CDO if other people are looking for helpful advice.
Yeah im in for it!
It would make a change for me sculpting something ENTIRELY from scratch, i just hope it gets off the ground!
I can also help with the concepts if you want ghrask
Maybe if a trial works we could try the idea for a golden hat