The hands
The hands to me were one of the most difficult parts to sculpt. It required me to get into depth with sculpting each individual knuckle and the way it bent and curved. I noted the arc of the knuckles as they went accross the hand. The hand consists of the carpals, or wrist bones; the metacrapals, or bones of the palm; and the phalanges, which are the finger bones.
The surface anatomy of the hand is defined mostly by the skeletal structure. When sculpting, i paid attention to three main surfaces. The thenar group or the base of the thumb; the hypothenar group the base around the pinky; and the pads for the bases of the fingers.
At the higher subdivision levels I was adding in finer details which proved more enjoyable such as the wrinkles the knuckles make as they stretch out. The veins of the back of the palm, and the bony landmarks of the fingers.
The feet
The feet is very similar to the hand from its skeletal structure. It is made up of metatarsals and phalanages like the hand. The surface anatomy is again similar, being made up of three major landmarks. These are called the medial longitudinal arch, the lateral longitudinal arch, and the transverse arch. The underside has fleshy pads which protect the bones making up the feet. When sculpting these in, I used the flatten brush to make it seem like they were carrying the weight of the person.
feet and figure finish
After the feet and hands were sculpted in I took a final look at the sculpture as whole. The video below shows my process of the feet and finishing off the figure I ended up reducing the visibility of the muscles and tried to bring it into a sense of reality. I also kept in mind that I was going to pose this character, so I paid attention to things like the armpit, putting in a deeper hole to make deformation easier. Overall I was pretty happy with the result. Next time I will be posing the character and rendering it for presentation.
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| The male figure finished |
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| The feet up close |
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| The hands up close |
