Hello everyone,

here are some pics of my current sculpting project. My third scratch figure will be a Prussian infantry man standing on a ladder after the canvas "Le Bourget" by DeNeuville. Hope you like the beginnings. Comments and criticism are welcome.

Best wishes

Mark

...another pic from the canvas

hi mark
i'm so happy to see a project around the works of Alphonse Deneuville.
Can't wait to see the progression of your figure but i think that the start is really good.
Thanks for sharing

Seb.

Looking good so far, Mark!

Looking forward to more progress.

Mark, The figure looks to be well proportioned. The only thing about the piece that looks odd is the tubular construction of the sides of the ladder.~Gary

Hello Sebastien, Jason and Gary,

thanks for your kind words.
Gary: the problem is how to fix the figure properly to the ladder, therefore up to now the tube seemed the most suitable solution to me. I'm still right at the beginning, what would you suppose instead. Do you think it might look better to cover the ladder construction with putty and ad a slight wood structure?

Mark

Unusual (and difficult) pose very well executed, is it your intention to include any other figures in the painting?

Mark, If the sides of the ladder were basswood you could have the "pin" portion of the armature of his left arm go right into the wood and build the hand around it. I agree that you've done a fine jb of posing the figure. The comments on the ladder are really a minor issue, so don't let this slow down your progress on the figure.~Gary

fantastic idea my friend!!!!!!! it is going to be an excellent figure as well!!!!!!!!!

Interesting subject and I agree with the others a well exicuted, difficult pose. Keep us posted!

Jay H.
OKC

Intresting project, i will folow it !
Keep us posted!
francis

Marvelous idea and a difficult pose indeed! Extremely difficult! I love the idea of taking the pose from the famous painting!

Maybe it's the camera angle or something, but are the legs proportionate to the rest of the figure? Could they be a little too long?

All the best,
Dan

Hi MArk ..Good Start .....

MAB

Very good idea. I hope it 'll works out very well.

Great idea, done very well

Hi Mark

very nice start to this piece, pose is good, its good to see a little more thought going into figure modelling, adding that little bit of area around the figure, instead of just groundwork, lots more involved in this that way, more to grab the eye.......

Great

Dave

Looks very good my friend,keep us posted!
christos

Hey there,

I think this is a great idea!
I have started sculpting to sculpt frome pictures.
Im not interested in that period of time but i would like to try this only on the rocks D-Day 6-6-1944 would be cool
Great job i wil be folowing this one!


Nick

Great work.
I really like it.

marc

Neat stuff

Really cool concept, man. It's definitely above and beyond the norm. Keep up the good work, looking forward to more posts.

Cheers,
Stephen