SBS: The Cappuccetto - From an Idea to Sculpture

The Cappuccetto: from an Idea to Sculpture

by Daniele "Found" Trovato

Hi everyone!!

Let's go together with sculpting a personal charming bust :-)

This bust is available as preorder only for
48hour from 8/03/2019 7:00 (London time).

The Main Idea

My daughter loves stuffed animals :-)

Last Christmas I bought her a big and soft plush dog, and since that day the big dog was always with her :-)

While I was sculpting something, my daughter was talking to her puppet, hugging him from behind.

In winter period,  my daughter normally wears a small shawl.

My Little Anastasia and her best friend :-)

 Do you guess what I immediately thought? :-)

Yes! You nailed it: The Little Red Riding Hood

Sketching time

Start with a wood piece with an armature created with metal wire.

So, I using my Super Sculpey Original and I start to sketch my idea:

From now on I will use the most useful and important tool of every sculptor: his own hands !!

As I always said: GO ROUGH!

I baked it, so i have a more hard surface to use as an armature for soft clay.
For this bust I used a mix of Beesputty firm with FIMO Professional (about 50%-50%)
This mix was suggested  by Valentin Zak, and I think it's pretty useful, because personally I can choice the amount of stickness of the clay: the more is amount of Beesputty, the more sticky is the clay.



I tried different face and expression, in order to obtain something interesting. No rules. Just followed my inspiration.

I Always change the pose, the expression until it satisfies me.

As you can see, sculpting is a try and attempts process.

You don't have to hurt yourself searching perfection.

Firsly, I used Thun Angel Face as a inspiration

Just unleash your imagination, and have fun, the rest are details.

I didn't use any reference, Jjst used my memory, my experience and my fun!

I changed the face expressions of both about 15 times.

The Ultimate Step-by-Step

This is the detailed step by step of the process: :-)

1. Have an Idea, "your" idea.
2. Sketching
3. Have fun....
4. Failure....
5. Try....
6. Have fun....
7. Frustrating....
8. Attempt....
9. Try.....
10. Have fun......
11. I want to give up...
12. Try...
13. I will never sculpt anything...
14. Attempt...
15. I hate my work
16. Try...
17. I hate my hobby...
18. Try...
19. It seems good...
20. Have fun....
21. 
    

22. 
    
    
    You need love, persistence, and passion to obtain good results.

The meaning of my process is this: people aren't interested in process, people want results.

My goal for this article is to remember that behind every piece of art ,there is work and love.

You don't buy a single piece of resin.

You buy the artist time, the experience,  the work and the love for art. 

1% is talent,
99% is practice,
experience,
failure
and attempts

The Finished Sculpture

Sometimes I ear  comments about sculptures:

...This is not perfect...

...That is not symmetrical...

...The nose is curve...

...Those isn't anatomically correct...

etc... etc....

This is ART: no one can judge yours!

I suggest you don't think about people comments!

You have to think about the creation process.

Did it give you fun? That's the real important thing!

I wanted to create a cartoon shape baby with a cartoon Wolf, that's all.

The Cappuccetto

Designed and sculpted by
Daniele "Found" Trovato

48 hours preorder from 8/03/2019  7:00 AM (London Time)



The  Cappuccetto

The Cappuccetto



The Cappuccetto

The Cappuccetto

I decided to produce this bust myself
exclusively  48 hours preorder, so you can find it here

I hope this article can be a source of inspiration for you, in order to have the best fun and never give up.

Keep Sculpting

Daniele

Link and resources:

-Super Sculpey Original

-Massive Voodoo other Sculpting tutorial and SBS

-Daniele Found Miniatures
-Preorder Bust

-Fb Page

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