2: Clay
A full (silent) demonstration of modeling a hand in clay, given by Philippe Faraut.
Clay's another medium I don't have a *ton* of experience with, but I have used it for figurative sculpture work, and my takeaways are 1) it dries your hands massively, 2) it gets into/onto everything, 3) it's linked to some seriously primal pleasure centers related to e.g. slinging goop around and making 3D things that look like things. Basically, as with a great many things in art, fun but messy.
But yeah, watching someone who genuinely knows what they're doing with it is always a joy. Especially in a case like this, where the work is still representational; I'm also representational (respond heartily to that thrill of things looking like things), but work primarily 2D and additive rather than subtractive, so this is like the sort of work I'm familiar with turned inside out.
But yeah, watching someone who genuinely knows what they're doing with it is always a joy. Especially in a case like this, where the work is still representational; I'm also representational (respond heartily to that thrill of things looking like things), but work primarily 2D and additive rather than subtractive, so this is like the sort of work I'm familiar with turned inside out.
(PS - If you have sound on, heads up that there are a few sudden sound spikes from particularly impassioned guitar strums. But it is silent apart from the background music, so you won't miss anything if you mute it.)