Sculpting and Model Making at Life Drawing Academy
Drawing from life requires models. That is why in the Life Drawing Academy Correspondence Course, you will get special tasks on sculpting and making models that you can draw from life from any point of view. Even if you have never sculpted before, with our templates you will be able to make unique and accurate models of geometric objects, a human skull, head, shoulder girdle, hand, and facial features. You will learn the classical architectural orders by making paper models of Doric and Ionic capitals. In addition, you will also discover how to sculpt portraits in clay and cold-cast them in hard materials.
How to Sculpt Eyes
In the Life Drawing Academy Correspondence Course, you will learn how to sculpt eyes and make a model with classical proportions and correct anatomy to draw it from life from different points of view.
How to Make and Draw a Skull
In this video, you will discover proportions and construction of a skull, how to make a paper skull model and how to draw a skull from life with the necessary knowledge of its anatomy...
Best Paper Skull Models
In this video, Vladimir London, a Life Drawing Academy tutor, will demonstrate a couple of paper skull models that you can make at home to draw from life.
How to Make a Shoulder Girdle Paper Model
This Shoulder Girdle paper model is available exclusively to Life Drawing Academy Correspondence Course students as a part of personal drawing curriculum. Life Drawing Academy students use this model to draw a shoulder girdle from life and learn construction and anatomy of a human skull, neck and shoulders.
How to Sculpt a Mouth
In this video, you will learn how to sculpt a sculpture of a mouth, which can be used as a model with classical proportions that you can draw from life at any angle. This tutorial contains two different ways of sculpting a mouth - using a paper template and a very special method on three spheres.
How to Cast a Mouth Sculpture
In this video, you will find out how to make a mold and cast a mouth sculpture with classical proportions and correct anatomy that you can use as a model to draw from life.
How to Sculpt a Nose
You may wonder how to learn to draw portraits if you don't have classical sculptures nor models to draw from life. In this video, I will show you how to sculpt a realistic nose that you can use as a model for drawing. This sculpture is based on the nose of David, that Michelangelo Buonarroti carved in marble more than 500 years ago.
How to Cast a Nose Sculpture
In this video, you will learn you how to make a mold and cast a sculpture of a nose in resin plaster.
How to Sculpt an Ear - Video
In this video, you will learn the unique method of ear proportions, which was developed by Vladimir London. This method is taught in the Life Drawing Academy course
How to Make a Paper Hand Model
In the Life Drawing Academy Correspondence Course, you will get a unique template of paper hand model. Making such a model provides the first-hand experience of learning the hand's planes. Drawing this model from life will prepare you for drawing real hands.
How to Make a Model of Doric Capital
In this video, you will see how to make a Doric capital paper model. In the Life Drawing Academy Correspondence Course, students learn various topics, including proportions, construction, perspective, anatomy, and so on. To learn classical orders, they make models of column capitals to draw them from life. Watch this video to find out more.
How to Sculpt a Head
In this video, you will find out to cast a sculpture of a classical male head using very affordable casting materials
How to Cast a Classical Bust
In this video, you will discover how to make a mold and cold cast a classical bust. Every sculptor has to have good drawing skills. Making your own cast of a classical bust is the great way to learn the three-dimensional construction of a head and make a model that you can draw from life.
How to Sculpt a Portrait - Video
Discover how to sculpt a female portrait in beeswax never hardening clay, make soft silicone and hard gypsum molds, and cast a head sculpture in hard gypsum
How to Sculpt a Head of the Princess - Video
In this video, you will see the complete process of making a small sculpture – a head of the Princess. The original sculpture is done in waxy oil-based clay and for casting purposes, two molds, soft silicone and hard plaster were used.To learn good drawing techniques, enroll in the Life Drawing Academy course:
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