Although still a work in progress, I'm getting there with my relief of the standing figure. The challenge now is to avoid overly finishing. In other words, to know when to stop.
Edouard Lanteri's definitive book titled Modelling and Sculpting the Human Figure was originally published at the beginning of the last century. However, in the absence of masters left alive to teach, its contents are all the more relevant today. It has been republished in paperback by Dover Publications.
In the book the author gives attention to modelling the relief and divides the relief form into low, half and high. My present work falls under the category of half relief.
Edouard Lanteri has good advice on searching for the large planes and the avoidance of detail.
...Details, as numerous as they are useless, take away from the largeness of the work, and the public rejoices in this photographic sculpture and says: "How beautiful" where they ought to say: "How petty...How trivial".
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