{"id":627,"date":"2013-07-18T11:29:24","date_gmt":"2013-07-18T15:29:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.captainspud.com\/?page_id=627"},"modified":"2013-07-18T11:29:24","modified_gmt":"2013-07-18T15:29:24","slug":"sculpting-hands-ftbh-excerpt","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.captainspud.com\/?page_id=627","title":{"rendered":"Sculpting Hands (FTBH Excerpt)"},"content":{"rendered":"

This is the cleanest example I’ve published for how to sculpt an open hand. It is excerpted from Free Time Black Hole, Episode 109<\/a>. The actual examples of hands I produce here aren’t going to rock anyone’s socks, but the basic method is the best I’ve found to date.<\/span><\/p>\n

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The basic hand form worked pretty well in the initial forming stage (though I made it a bit big), and mostly only fell apart once I transplanted it, as I was peeling it off the blister while it was soft. So, I decided to try a modification of that method: still sculpt it on a blister, but wait for it to completely dry and only then attach it.<\/p>\n

I solved the scale problem by printing more copies of my scale skeleton and putting them inside the blister; now I\u2019d be guaranteed hands in scale with the skeleton my succubus was wired against.<\/p>\n

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Using the skeleton as a guide, I laid out a mitten of putty.<\/p>\n

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I used a knife to cut the end of the mitten in half, then each side in half again. I kept the fingers thin, cut off any excess, and formed basic hand creases into the palm.<\/p>\n

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Once I had the basic form, I posed the hand by lifting the fingers off the blister with a sharp knife. I\u2019ll be doing more cleanup later, so I didn\u2019t worry about nice smooth surfaces for now; I just wanted the basic forms that I could use as a structural support.<\/p>\n

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Rinse and repeat for all four hands.<\/p>\n

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Each is in a different post. The left is open, but clenching the last joint of each finger. The right is pointing.<\/p>\n

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On the other side, there\u2019s one that\u2019s wide open and another with a more clenched gripping pose.<\/p>\n

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Satisfied with my new hand shapes, I hack off the first try.<\/p>\n

BEGONE WITH YOU!<\/p>\n

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By this time the hands had dried. I did what I could to clean them up (it was hard, though, because they were too tiny to grip properly), then started attaching.<\/p>\n

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So much cleanup still to do\u2026<\/p>\n

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I initially tried to sculpt the back-of-hand detail at this point, but it was just too hard with the putty currently being structural support in addition to external detail, so I resolved to trim it once it was dry and re-do the smooth hand surfacing later.<\/p>\n

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I really like the basic shapes, though. I\u2019m impressed with how nice the \u201cblister transfer\u201d method looks (so far at least; hopefully the cleanup won\u2019t make the fingers fatter!)<\/p>\n

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And here\u2019s where I am today. Like I said earlier, I know it doesn\u2019t look like I did much work this week, but I swear that this took several jam-packed days!<\/p>\n

-Spud<\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This is the cleanest example I’ve published for how to sculpt an open hand. It is excerpted from Free Time Black Hole, Episode 109. The actual examples of hands I produce here aren’t going to rock anyone’s socks, but the basic method is the best I’ve found to date. The basic hand form worked pretty […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":0,"parent":607,"menu_order":2,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-627","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","wpautop"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.captainspud.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/627","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.captainspud.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.captainspud.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.captainspud.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.captainspud.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=627"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.captainspud.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/627\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":628,"href":"http:\/\/www.captainspud.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/627\/revisions\/628"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.captainspud.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/607"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.captainspud.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}