After comleting a portion of the jacket lining the piece was permanently epoxied in place. Once the epoxy has fully cured, hot water will be poured over the front of the jacket to help soften it so it will lay against the torso more instead of stick out.

Gary, Your SBS is excellent, thank You!

Hello Gary,

your sbs is very intersting !!! Thanks for it.

About the disk: I have never had thoughts to use such a tool. But it looks good and I think it really makes sense. I will give it a try at my next sculpting-piece.

Cheers,
Markus

I just watch and chuckle, saying "excellent... excellent..." over and over again. Each technique or method of acomplishing the current goal is a joy to watch!

Thanks for the time you are taking on this and thanks for the pure enjoyment of it.

Kevin

Pavka, Thank you, glad you like it.~Gary

Markus, Thank you. There's more to come as I have another piece to put on top of the disk.~Gary

Kevin, Thanks, the kind words are really appreciated. I do enjoy sculpting...a lot. It would be nice to paint, to but I rarely give myself enough of a break away from sculpting it to pick up a brush for more than a few minutes here and there. Anyway, though the subject is plain in terms of uniform and equipment, it has already more than served it's purpose of getting folks to just give sculpting a try.~Gary

The next step is to thin out some of the material here and backfill underneath where needed. In this picture you can see how I've sanded right though the putty. This is no problem as the area can be backfilled with putty and once sanded you can never tell.

Here is the basic jacket body after sanding, backfilling in addition to roughing out the shape of the jacket body minus all the folds.

The back of the jacket.

The folds are indicated by referencing the photo of the model and indicating the main folds.

I then carve out the channels if you will that will become the folds with an X-acto knife. I then go in with some very coarse sandpaper and remove additional material. I do this by either folding the sandpaper to make it a little more rigid, or wrapping a piece around an old paintbrush or wooden dowel.

The following pictures show the folds refined a little further. I'm also going to use files to help sharpen certain areas of the folds.

another pic.

Hi Gary, pics are all saved for that day in the next life :lol:

Amazing as ever

Keep him rolloing!!!

Ray

Can't wait finish
Is this a commercial project?

Best regards
Artur

Ray, Thanks for the kind words.~Gary

Autur, As of now the figure is just being done for the sbs. I would not rule it out however if someone is interested.~Gary

Gary, I have rerally enjoyed your SBS on this figure. As one sculptor to another, I always enjoy picking different points of sculpting and trying different techniques. I was wondering if you where going to do short SBS on hands. I use several different methods, from an enteral structure to carving out a blank of chevant clay or epoxy putty. I would very intersted is seeing your method in sculpting hands. Ol dogs need new tricks. Keep up the VERY Good work. You are very talented.

James, Thanks, I do appreciate it. Once the jacket is finished all that is left are the arms and hands. Hands were/are always the hardest part for me to do. I would like to try an approach that is not too involved, but yields decent results. If you have any ideas on this feel free to share.~Gary