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One of the interesting, albeit, painful things about sculpting is that sometimes the best thing you can do is destroy work that you've already done.

I've been struggling over the face on the piece I've been posting updates on for a while now, and none of my little tweaks or adjustments were helping. The reason for that should have been obvious: the shape of the face was wrong, so no amount of detail work was going to make it look right. In order to make it easier on myself to fix this, I gouged out her eyes and removed her mouth. I left the nose because I don't think it was contributing to the problem. Once these details were gone, it became instantly and clearly obvious that I had made the face too wide.

This is a problem I often have with female faces in small scale. It never seems to happen to me with sculpting male faces, and not with larger (1/2 scale or greater) faces, but it seems to happen fairly consistently with small feminine faces. So, you would think the problem would have been obvious to me, seeing as how it's happened to me a dozen times or so. But nope, I kept tweaking the eyes and mouth thinking the problem was there.

Ah, well. I'll throw up some pictures later; have to get to work now.