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I was gone for a week then, of course, with the holidays and end of year (a busy time for me work-wise) coming, life has been hectic. I sculpted a few nights ago, and didn't do an update, mostly because I was frustrated and angry at myself. The vast majority of the time, when I get to sculpt, I just enjoy the fact that I'm getting an opportunity to sculpt. I don't care too much about how "good" my work is, I just enjoy the solitude and the fact that I'm doing something I love.

Every once in a while, however, I get frustrated. Although I know I've made a lot of progress since I started, I do, at times, wonder if I'll ever get to the point where I'm truly happy with what I produce: Will I ever be "good"?

Fortunately, those times are few and far between, and usually it just takes a couple of days of not sculpting to make me get my priorities back in line. That was the cure this time, and tonight, it just felt good to be sculpting: no frustration, no beating myself up for not being better than I am.

And, at the end of tonight's sculpting session, this is where I stand.

I put the head and arms on, but they're not on permanently yet, and the arms are going to look a little off until I put them on for the final time, because in this pose, the model is holding the arms fairly tightly against her body, which is an effect I can't mimic until I attach the arms permanently.

I started the hands tonight, and am regretting a bit the pose I selected. Those intertwined fingers are ridiculously complex and I'm wondering if I'm going to be able to make it work. We shall see.