Spent a little time in the studio this evening with my new sculpt. Sculpted for a little while, then decided to take some pictures and call it a night. I threw the wire arms on to get an idea of the pose and grabbed my camera:
But then when I was taking the picture from the rear — an angle I haven't focused on that much — I realized that something was very wrong with the proportions. Either the hips were too wide or the waist too narrow, but I wasn't sure which. So, I pulled out the calipers and checked them both. The waist was spot on, but the hips were too wide, so I shaved them down some, and then kept going for a little while.
Thinning it down helped tremendously, though I've still got a ways to go until the outline is fully established. After shaving down her hips, I added the shoulders over the re-attached arm supports, made the head a touch bigger. It looks too big to my eye now, but the caliper says it's right. I'm going to hold off judgement until I get the eye sockets in, and a more face-like shape on it before I put my stamp of approval on the change, though.
Overall, I like the way it's shaping up and am still having fun with Chavant.
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