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ok so after a full day of sculpting i have...... [drum roll please].... a nose!!!!!

OMG - this is not an easy task at all, even with the sculpting form... i think i covered the form and then pulled the sculpy off again about 5 times over - and that was just the cover layers before you even begin to add detail and actully begin sculpting!!!

I'm having fun though and thats what counts most.

the plan is to make a sleeping bub... not a "just born" newborn, but one maybe 3weeks old or so... well thats the "plan" what eventuates could be something very different... and perhapse not even human!!!

If anyone is interested in my grand achievment of a NOSE -- here are a few pics remember this is my first venture in sculpting a baby, so its nothing fantastic!!

https://s252.photobucket.com/albums/hh29/preciouslullabies/?action=view&current=DSCF5203.jpg

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I think that that is great! I hope that my first venture into sculpting is even half as good. I don't have the equipment yet - but it's coming...

Aw your all so very kind. My baby is now baking in the oven. Here's the almost finished product....

i smoothed it over more after taking these pics before putting in the oven -- i figuer the remaining bumps and lumps I'll gently sand-buff out.

i think maybe i left the bottom lip too big - i wanted to make it look like it was maybe quivering - lip dropping getting ready to cry. Its hard to tell because the sculpts always look different ones painted all up... Honest feedback one what i could work on next time will be appreciated, while also rembering this is my first ever attempt. Maybe oneday i could have a kit available ... its a big dream i know, but give me 6 or so months of practise and it could be possible... maybe

https://s252.photobucket.com/albums/hh29/preciouslullabies/?action=view&current=DSCF5208.jpg

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Hi Naomi,..
You did a good job on your first attempt :)
Danielle

OMG!!! how could you smash her!!!!! she is beautiful! im totaly speechless im gonna call you smasher lullabies now lol

Your first sculpt was great! When I get tired of newborning and reborning I will try sculpting. I think I'm going to have to use armature. My attempts at freeform have all looked like old men. I also like the fact that if I'm not happy I can just smash it and start from scratch!

Well? Where are the pics? Can't wait to see! As I get to know you better it seems perfectly appropriate that you would be sculpting, too!

She is super sweet! I love her nose. The medley is nice and fast. It is easier to see her whole face! Congrats on a success!

TinyEarthAngels too funny! You cracked me up with that line.

thats fine! i seeee nufink i hear nufink! give us a tap on the shoulder will ya when it safe to view number 3? lol

My best friend did that to "MY" very first sculpt! I mean she took it and smashed in right in her hand!!! BAM OUCH!!!! And then she said: "practice, practice, practice, if you can do that 3 more times you got it!" :o

Yes, she is still my friend but I didn't sculpt for many years after that, and now I only let her see the ones that have been baked! hehehe

My first baby sculpted in porcelain clay looks like a bad cartoon character. Body looks ok but the hands look like Fred Flintstone's. Face kinda looks like Edward G Robinson (the actor) and Howdy Doody (a puppet). So at least yours is better. I did keep my first.

Of course now I could send him to the "Smashing Lullabye's" nursery to be.... umm... looked after? hehehe

Of course my friend is also a sculptor, she sculpts with handmade paper. She makes the most amazing realistic flowers you have ever seen. Then if she doesn't like what she made, she smashes it and tears it to peices!! Guess there's some similarities eh? :0

-- Edited by Buffington at 02:18, 2008-06-25

Yes, I'm glad she's still my friend too! 15 years is a lot to throw away. She can be a very temperamental artist but as you said: "...the babies she complements must be really high praise..." and she is very honest with me (no more smashing baby heads!). She tells me with tact and she knows that I will accept her "critique" with grace as she gets me to "step away" and look at them from a buyers point of view.

I use a "would I buy that for me?" eye when I look at my work. I know an aweful lot of people that have friends and relatives that would never give them an honest opinion for fear of hurting the artists feelings. And who knows whether or not the artist can take constructive criticism. Some do some don't. This is why (IMHO) there are some babies for sale that people think are fabulous and they are not. Then they wonder: "why isn't my baby selling? Why did I only get $$ for it?" They don't really know because no one will tell them. But you ALWAYS, ALWAYS have to be tactful as it could be devistating to someone who worked so hard on that baby.

yes i know what you mean about the fear of hurting others feelings... but i think it gets to a point where everyone just starts lying and no one will ever reach for greater heights when those around them are just paying lip servise....

For me personally though this just becomes even more complecated as i assume people never say what they really think and as such i rarely trsut a complement. Which is really terrible.

Like you said (buffington) - i also look at my work with a "would i want to buy that?" eye, regardless of the hours of work, the main question remains for me "is it pleasing to the eye, and is it really worth hundreds of dollars" if i wouldn't buy it myself, i'd hardly think anyone else might.

I guess thats where i'm at regarding my sculpting attempts thus far. I think "if this were a kit would i want to reborn it"?? the answer is a resounding NO, hence the hammer has come out to "play".

I was happier with my third attempt and if it hadn't cracked when cooking i would have probably kept him, but i still wouldn't have wanted him as a kit.

I use to think you have to be good to get your sculpt made as a kit... after researching the matter the truth is you just need to have a couple of thousand dollars to invest and make contact with a manifactuer in hong-kong/china etc.

There have been times when i have looked at some kits and thought "oh my, how did this ever get produced?" but well, now i know. So unless people feel able to answer honestly when a person askes "do you think this would make a good kit" we're really just setting up the person for failure. If we say "yes" but really think "no", and because of all the kind, save the persons feelings "yes's" someone might actually produce a sculpt and then end up in a financial hole b/c the kit just wont sell.

i mean yeah, there are ways to say it, and maybe you really need to know a person to be blunt with them over their creations... but i know that i personally would prefer the honest truth than i would lip servise.


Blah blah... don't know how i ended up off on this point... i'll jump off my soap box now *giggles*