Bust Sculpture

For this sculpture I used super sculpey. After trying to sculpt with air dry clay it became apparent I needed the control and time to tweak the model before it was finalized

The objective of creating this piece was to study the mass of the facial muscles in three dimensions. What I hoped to get out of this endeavor was a better understanding of how underlying muscle tone plays on the surface of the skin. I chose to sculpt an older face because the crevices between the muscles are accentuated and the effect of gravity on the skin was something I wanted to achieve.  

I feel that the facial muscle flow came out as I had intended. I was quite happy with the result. Conversely the ears were the biggest struggle, I found it difficult to get them the same size as they require a certain amount of clay on them to, first have the details carved out of them, and secondly to merge them convincingly with the head. Originally I was going to sculpt a goatee onto the face; however I decided to leave the face bare in order to focus on the muscles.

Sources

As a base for this sculpt I used Bryan Cranston as a rough guide.

The images I used as reference are listed below

1.  Jack. (2011), Anomalous Material. Retrieved from http://www.anomalousmaterial.com/movies/2011/05/bryan-cranston-on-board-for-rock-of-ages
2. McFarland, M. (2012), Internet Movie Database. Retrieved from http://tv.blog.imdb.net/2012/06/14/bryan-cranston-to-host-the-2012-tca-awards/
3. Unknown (2011). Countrify. Retrieved From http://countrify.blogspot.co.nz/2010/08/bryan-cranstons-three-peat-breaking-bad.html