On friday we finished our 3 weeks pose in sculpture with Alessio as our model. He's been such a great model and such a change in body type from our last long pose. He also had really different proportions, like a rib cage narrower than the pelvis but still with wide shoulders. Just shows how you can't completely rely on standard proportions. Really interesting stuff :)
For this pose I started using a technique they teach here at the FAA about unifying the surface with a piece of sand paper. I haven't really used this before, but it works great. I do it by using a small strip of sandpaper (maybe 3 x 7cm), laying it on the surface and pressing with a wooden tool from high point to high point across the form rather than along it. If you use a thick kind of sand paper it acts like a tool this way, but doesn't leave any lines from the edges of the tool. You only really use this technique at the end of a pose. It works great to highlight if you need to fill in an area or take away, since you can't hide any flaws under rough modelling.
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