Portrait Sculpting In Clay For Beginners

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[@danielraleigh7776]

Beginner sculptor here in Utah: I’m watching all of your videos on repeat… loving my progress so far. Thank you!!!

[@AndrewJosephKeith]

Hey glad to hear it! I’d love to see your work over at Proko.com where you can post images of your assignments under the sculpting videos. Keep up the good work!

[@pureifier6308]

Dude I saw your vids on your channel you got some crazy skill with clay.

[@AndrewJosephKeith]

Thanks 🙏 appreciated!

[@ICommerceSUBHASHISHPANDEY]

You are Amazing please keep making tutorials like this...

[@AndrewJosephKeith]

Thanks 🙏 I’ll try.

[@w00olf]

Thank You Sir.🌷🌷🌷

[@AsraDuman]

Thank you

[@Mars-MusicDugem]

Terima Kasih Sudah Berbagi Informasi.. ❤

[@aangella]

I love watching your videos while studying 👍

[@AndrewJosephKeith]

Glad to hear it.

[@user-rj1se5zg8z]

❤

[@Bringidon]

great.. enjoyed that.. thanks.. now, i'm going to be using air-dry clay, and try sculpt an orc's head.. so plenty of leeway heh.. i have a full 3d digital model as i sculpted the head in blender (3d modeller) a couple of years ago.. fingers crossed.. thanks again :)

[@AndrewJosephKeith]

Very cool good luck with your sculpture!

[@arthardware5560]

Missed you at the first ever plein air sculpture event in springville, Heard you bought the farm (hehe) in IA. cool but we'll miss you out west!

[@AndrewJosephKeith]

Yeah Utah was just too crazy expensive for what we wanted for our first home. Hopefully we'll be back before long. How did the event go?

[@DusanPavlicek78]

I really like your videos, they are very helpful. Here I would like to point out you can clearly see it's a female face BEFORE you even add the eyes and other details (4:20)... AND also at the very end when you remove those features again 😮😉 I need to focus on that more in my own sculptures: to go strictly from big shapes to details and not skip back and forth 😬

[@AndrewJosephKeith]

Hey thanks! yeah I think beginners often neglect the overall structure of the head and that's actually where a lot of the likeness comes from.

[@Mars-MusicDugem]

​@@AndrewJosephKeithBentuk dan Sisi pandang ya.., Terimakasih..

[@reginadiez6070]

There different types of the clay you are using : soft, medium, hart. Which one do you use?

[@AndrewJosephKeith]

I use the medium (though I prefer a little firmer so I actually mix 1/4 hard and 3/4 parts medium. but most people would probably prefer the medium.)

[@breenafain4531]

new to portrait sculpting and found this super helpful and detailed, thank you so much! I do have a question about the type of clay - do you have any content around the different type of clay or is it all totally personal preference?

[@breenafain4531]

neverminnnnd. just saw it's in your course and a little short about it! you've got it all! :)

[@AndrewJosephKeith]

Glad you found it! There's definitely advantages and disadvantages to different types of clay so it depends on what you want your workflow to be. For mold making I like a non-drying modeling clay like Chavant NSP medium. For baking in a normal oven I'll sculpt with aluminum foil and then finish with polymer clay like sculpey, and if you have access to a kiln then natural clay like terracotta can work great for portraits so you can fire them and have a finished sculpture as hard as stone. Let me know if you have other questions! @@breenafain4531

[@brapperdan]

This seems way more difficult than starting with a block and removing clay. You ever do it that way? I wanted to try sculpting but this way seems very difficult

[@AndrewJosephKeith]

I find it to be the exact opposite. By starting with a block and removing clay there are thousands of landmarks and features to locate and triangulate but by starting out focusing on only one thing at a time (the side profile for example) it's much easier to accurately capture that and then you can use that to locate the other features and start to triangulate the other forms of the portrait. Portrait sculpting is difficult no matter what but by breaking it into these steps that are more formulaic I've found that students are better able to more accurately represent the portrait. It might be worth an experiment though and you could try both methods and see what works best for you.

[@serden8480]

Hi, love your work! Which type or clay do you use?

[@romulusbuta9318]

IT looks like a very fat one......First ,I thought he is using wax for modeling.......

[@AndrewJosephKeith]

Chavant nsp medium for this one

[@dga2912]

Would it be better to use hard instead of medium?

[@AndrewJosephKeith]

Hard is like wax. Good for small sculptures.

[@samhl7853]

How much clay did you use for this sculpture? I’ve never used this type of clay. Can I still do this technique with regular drying clay?

[@AndrewJosephKeith]

I probably used around 4-6 lbs for this one. Yeah you can use other types of clay with this technique.

[@fembeatzpro]

What app did you mention please?

[@AndrewJosephKeith]

DaVinci Eye App

[@Dr.ChayanGupta_PlasticSurgeon]

What is the clay that you're using and how to get it?

[@AndrewJosephKeith]

www.amazon.com/gp/search?ie=UTF8&tag=andrewkeith-20&linkCode=ur2&linkId=f502fbe30544a4c731e722893f9832e1&camp=1789&creative=9325&index=arts-crafts&keywords=Chavant

[@Dr.ChayanGupta_PlasticSurgeon]

Quite costly ....... for beginners it's too costly .....you can use it one time only ...... I use clay that costs 2 dollars only but that sticks to hands that's a problem...... my sculpting work - kzbin.info/www/bejne/rGbcqn-dmbWUi5osi=mDse5mYu7U7XPImI Want your comments on this