a few expressions and a quote

Hi,

So work is kinda busy as of late....but I found some time today to compile these expressions that I had worked on for my head sculpture. All of these high poly sculpting packages continue to amaze me. I am still wrestling with the ZBrush interface a bit...but I think the fun part outweighs the technical interface gymnastics you have to perform when you hunker down to a ZBrush sculpting session....a little.

So my favorite figure drawing teacher had a favorite quote that he would often recite to his different classes. Because I had the fortune of taking an uncountable number of this teacher's classes, I had seen him refer to this quote many times. I have a theory that you won't hear something until you are "ready" to hear it. It was on a hot July day in a stuffy figure drawing room in the valley down in Los Angeles. We had just finished our morning session of drawing and I was ready for our lunch. Our teacher whipped out this familiar old paper back book and I knew he was going to break out the old "my favorite artist quote" chestnut again. So I ignored my grumbling stomach and listened. Going almost unnoticed, I could hear a lump in his throat as he read it slowly trying to communicate the gravity that this philosophy had for him and that he really wished that some of us could take away the spirit of the words with us throughout our careers as artists. I really did "hear" what he he wanted us to hear that day. The quote went like this:

From the age of six I had a penchant for copying the form of things, and from about fifty, my pictures were frequently published; but until the age of seventy, nothing that I drew was worthy of notice. At seventy-three years, I was somewhat able to fathom the growth of plants and trees, and the structure of birds, animals, insects, and fish. Thus when I reach eighty years, I hope to have made increasing progress, and at ninety to see further into the underlying principles of things, so that at one hundred years I wil have achieved a divine state in my art, and at one hundred and ten, every dot and every stroke will be as though alive. Those of you who live long enough, bear witness that these words of mine prove not false.

My teacher's name is Glenn Vilppu and the artist that he quoted was Hokusai.

Thanks Glenn!!!!!!!

later,
Chris

Feelin the Cintiq LUV:)

So here's a sculpt that I did of a head in ZBrush. I did it from some reference that I found on this website called 3d.sk. 3d.sk a photographic reference site that is hosted a guy in Slovakia. I seem to remember that I wasn't too happy with the way that the site was organized or the way that the subscription costs were structured so I cancelled after downloading some images. I've seen this particular gentleman digitally sculpted before by others online using the same reference photos, but I just wanted a nice head with lots of character to do a study of and try some techniques that I've been reading about....and he has such a sculptable face.....lots of wrinkles and whatnot to play around with. It was fun.

Later,
Chris

Bedhead Jed

First post!!!! Woohooo!!!!

Hellooooo......(echo...echo...echo) I'm sure this shout-out will only be heard by me, until I get the guts to tell other people that I actually have a blog. It's a lonely and dark place in here right now. Let's hang a picture on the wall and see if it brightens things up a bit.

-Chris