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[JeffWoodall]

I have always wanted to learn how to make miniatures so I went ahead and gave it a shot.
Comments, criticism, and advise would be appreciated.
If anyone is interested my illustrations can be found at:
http://www.elfwood.com/~jeffwoodall

Jeff Woodall

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[MamaGeek]

Hey, not bad! Way better than I could ever do. Keep it up!

[joshuaslater]

Hey, not bad! Way better than I could ever do. Keep it up!

That. Times two.

[Hellbeard]

You've got a solid base. What you would certainly benefit from is studying anatomical figure drawing - both in sculpting and in your illustrations. I recommend reading up on and doing the exercises in the Andrew Loomis. They're freely available online.

[Ironhammer]

You've got some great stuff going on there, in both the drawing and the sculpting! I especially like "Nap" and the "Mindflayer". Keep at it!

[JeffWoodall]

Latest sculpt.

Been trying to get a bit better at anatomy and photographing miniatures.

Also wanted to do something a bit different and not seen a lot, hence a female half orc.

Hopefully I pulled it off.

 

Jeff

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[Rocketpropelledgames]

Very nice work

[Pragma]

Great mini, I can see you've improved a lot from the first batch. Her face looks decidedly orcish, and the bits of armor are all nicely done. The hands turned out very well, and hands are one of the hardest parts to sculpt (at least for me).

 

There are just a couple of criticisms I would offer. Her left shoulder is a bit pinched, and her abdominal muscles have a strange shape (her six pack is kind of a four pack). Something that has helped me a lot as I struggle with anatomy sculpting is to draw out a sketch with the correct anatomy and proportions, from front and back views. There is an example in my thread in the sculpting forums, but I'm sure with your illustration background you could do much better. I did mine at exactly 4x the scale of the mini, so I could measure the distances on the mini with a drafting compass and compare them with the drawing.

[JeffWoodall]

Great mini, I can see you've improved a lot from the first batch. Her face looks decidedly orcish, and the bits of armor are all nicely done. The hands turned out very well, and hands are one of the hardest parts to sculpt (at least for me).

 

There are just a couple of criticisms I would offer. Her left shoulder is a bit pinched, and her abdominal muscles have a strange shape (her six pack is kind of a four pack). Something that has helped me a lot as I struggle with anatomy sculpting is to draw out a sketch with the correct anatomy and proportions, from front and back views. There is an example in my thread in the sculpting forums, but I'm sure with your illustration background you could do much better. I did mine at exactly 4x the scale of the mini, so I could measure the distances on the mini with a drafting compass and compare them with the drawing.

Thanks.

Very helpful information.

I'll be giving that a try for my next sculpt.

[smokingwreckage]

Very nice! Visible progress.