Designing a Layout for Sculpting a Human Figure Out of Clay

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Summary: Learn how to design a layout to make a clay sculpture of the human figure in this free ceramic art lesson on video.

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By Jorge Benlloch
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Jorge Benlloch is originally from Barcelona, Spain, where he received a M.A. & B.A in art at Steban Ripeaux Academy. He has taught art at the University Popular Elche and the...read more

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"Next time we are going to show you how to make the layout of the figure. You don't need to have magic skills to do that. This way, there is a trick that will ensure good results. And we're going to start now, sample, making a sample, you get a photocopy of the human body, or the figure that you want to do. If you want to make the human body, you can get it from any magazine, or any book. This one I get it from art book because it gives you the proportions. The human body has the proportions that Leonardo da Vinci put in this kind of master body that is like, spread the legs and the span of the arms like a star. He has the length of the body is eight times the size of the head. That's why in that one, it says so, it's number one, number two, number three, number four, five, six, seven, eight. That's the proportion of the human body."

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