April Challenge Bust Final - Aaron

I am officially giving Nate a golf clap for April's challenge. Well played Natey cakes, well played. This was truly a challenge that taxed all my skill and patience and laid bare my weaknesses. I must admit that at the first of the month I was confident in my ability to produce a near perfect likeness to my bro-ness but now that the month is over I want to throw this bust in the trash and call it a….bust… Having said that, I believe that we don't learn by winning but by losing.

 Here is the picture of my Bro that I was going for

Here is the clay over the foam and plaster form I did for the video

Adding more clay

My Final!

What did I do right…NOTHING…? (That’s not true) the first thing I did right was to try. You can't win if you don’t try, right sir? The second thing I did right was the foam form I used under the bust. Never try to make a clay bust without something like that under the clay. It would be too heavy and would take a tremendous amount of clay. And if the challenge was to make a bust of any fictional person, I did a great job.

What did I do wrong? This does not look like Nate at all. As it turns out I'm not great at upping the scale of my sculpting and I have a lot to learn and practice. This will not be my last bust Attempt as it hasn’t yet beat me, it does that when I quit. So…

What will I do next time? Next time I will actually print out my target pictures. Both front and side profiles. I will blow up said pictures to the scale I need. I will use calipers, a measuring device used in design, sculpting, and carving. I think I could have planned better and actually make a plan. Mabey do miniatures I can play with while I'm out and about. Also I can't have as much help...

Also let's do a shout out to Karen Burgess for her bust of Nate's dog Eugene  

GREAT JOB KAREN!