lookin forward to doing more photo-modelling. modelling for photography kicks the ASS of modelling for drawings, on many many levels... not just that it's less painful... i mean they just click the picture and you're free to move to the next pose, rather than hold all your limbs still for 20 minutes... but also i feel like there's more of "me" in the photographs than there ever is in the drawings... that's probably because alot of the people who draw me don't really know how to draw yet lol
oh my god, one of the classes i'm modelling for right now is a sculpture class, and they're just doing "portraits" of my head; which means i'm literally sitting in the middle of the room surrounded by replicas of just my head. at first i thought sculpture modelling would be the most annoying thing in the world cause it's so particular about muscle arraingement and stuff and i thought i'd have to be ultra super still. but it turns out to be awesome; i don't even have to be naked: i justsit in the chair for 3 hours and i can squirm and scratch and look around and talk and, best of all, i can get up and leave for my break whenever i want; don't have to wait for the 20 minute bell to ring, which is comparitively awesome. so i just sit there and daydream, with replicas of my face going on all over the room, like a dozen 20-somethings intensely poking away at their little clay face, looking at me intensely, then going back to thier clay. what's bizarre is when they look like they're pouring all this attention and focus in their little sculpture, looking at me so hard and examining my features so intensely,and going back and messing with the thing, and then they turn the thing around and i'm stunned by how NOT like me the thing looks. now, i don't mean to criticize anybody's skills or anything; i've taken that same kind of class and sucked at creating likeness out of clay... but come ON, some of these things look like aliens or cartoon sumo wrestlers. one guy is putting this sloping forehead on me that makes me look like a total thug, and this lady, whose sculpture is agreed on by all to be the most similar to my face, i'd say looks more like me in 40 years or something... anyways, it's a beginner class. none of the portraits look like me at all in my opinion, but i'm a harsh critic... being the model, however, i'm not allowed to express my criticism
i think perhaps, before a class like this gets into trying to make a face that looks like somebody, the teacher should say "ok, first, you're all going to just do a sculpture of what YOU THINK a face looks like." cause lots of people seem to think it looks like something else lol
oh my god, one of the classes i'm modelling for right now is a sculpture class, and they're just doing "portraits" of my head; which means i'm literally sitting in the middle of the room surrounded by replicas of just my head. at first i thought sculpture modelling would be the most annoying thing in the world cause it's so particular about muscle arraingement and stuff and i thought i'd have to be ultra super still. but it turns out to be awesome; i don't even have to be naked: i justsit in the chair for 3 hours and i can squirm and scratch and look around and talk and, best of all, i can get up and leave for my break whenever i want; don't have to wait for the 20 minute bell to ring, which is comparitively awesome. so i just sit there and daydream, with replicas of my face going on all over the room, like a dozen 20-somethings intensely poking away at their little clay face, looking at me intensely, then going back to thier clay. what's bizarre is when they look like they're pouring all this attention and focus in their little sculpture, looking at me so hard and examining my features so intensely,and going back and messing with the thing, and then they turn the thing around and i'm stunned by how NOT like me the thing looks. now, i don't mean to criticize anybody's skills or anything; i've taken that same kind of class and sucked at creating likeness out of clay... but come ON, some of these things look like aliens or cartoon sumo wrestlers. one guy is putting this sloping forehead on me that makes me look like a total thug, and this lady, whose sculpture is agreed on by all to be the most similar to my face, i'd say looks more like me in 40 years or something... anyways, it's a beginner class. none of the portraits look like me at all in my opinion, but i'm a harsh critic... being the model, however, i'm not allowed to express my criticism
i think perhaps, before a class like this gets into trying to make a face that looks like somebody, the teacher should say "ok, first, you're all going to just do a sculpture of what YOU THINK a face looks like." cause lots of people seem to think it looks like something else lol
that's talent!