Muscles of the front torso
I began by making some general changes to the gesture sculpture i did in week 4. I also tried to give him a more heroic stance and appeal to his torso.
I first sculpted in the pectoralis by using the clay tubes and just etching in horizontal lines on the chest. I made sure to insert the clavicular head at the top of the pectoralis.
The abdominal muscles were next and again i used the clay tubes brush with no alpha to sculpt in the soft forms of these muscles. I'm taking advantage of the fact that if i want to smooth something it is better to do it at a smaller subdivision level rather than a higher one.
I also realised that you can adjust the smoothing curve of the smooth brush. If you bring the curve down, what this does is reduce the smoothing the brush does, therefore if you've sculpted in alot of detail but still in rough form, the smooth brush with a lower curve will smooth only the highest surface detail, leaving nearly all the sculpted detail still in but with a smoother look which is what i wanted.
Muscles of the side torso
On the side of the abdominals is the external obliques and serratus muscles. All these muscles inter-connect with eachother, so as i was sculpting each one at the very end I had to go back in and fill in the gaps so as to make it seem as though they were doing this action.
Muscles of the back torso
The back was a bit more complex as it has the greatest number of muscles visible. I started by re-addressing the trapezius muscles, sculpting in where it connects to the lattissimus dorsi muscle. The lattissimus dorsi wraps around to the obliques. To the left and right of the trapezius muscle are the rhomboids. At the end i started to think of the arms and therefore sculpted in the deltoids or shoulders, but this will be addressed later.
Overall I am always moving back and forth between weeks, constantly addressing the face and overall structure of the body. I hope to bringing the sculpt up in detail rather than concentrating on one area at a time.
Below you'll find a link to the sculpt timeline as well as a few pictures outlining the different muscle groups and skeletal landmarks of the body.
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| Back |
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