Making the Monk - Part 3

Ok, at this point we are going to take a moment away from the overall sculpture to talk about one of the most difficult parts of this sculpt: the hand, namely the left hand, which, for this pose had to be double sided. This was a pain, the first 3 attempts were very flawed, and only the final one worked.

The first attempt was a process I've made work before, by building a putty support, sculpting one side of the hand on to it, carving it back, and then sculpting the other side. :( did not work too well this time).

The Second attempt used a hand from another model I've made previously and taken a mould of her hand. Turns out it was too small a hand.

The Third attempt was similar to attempt #1 (these pictures show the support a bit better) but the support was left inside the hand. Also; did not work out.

In the Fourth and final attempt I sculpted the hand separately, using a paint brush haft as the initial support, before attaching it to the model, and sculpting the other side of the hand. Much more satisfied with the results.

A lot of this required extra setting time before the putty was rigid enough, or attached enough to do the next stage. So this kinda slowed down the overall process a fair bit. But I did do little bits of work on the rest of the model while  I was struggling with the hand. Which you should see in the next post.