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| This is the rear end of the lion, it's well padded at this point. |
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| The front view of the leg as well as being a little on the plump side, there is practically no definition of the muscles of the leg. I crayon in the bony area of the leg first, I'll move on to the muscles later. |
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| I am finishing the lion from the nose backward. Everything in the body is too big - I always cut wide of the mark. At this point I can push thing around a little bit - the form can be a bit higher or lower (by a couple inches or so). By establishing the head first I have a starting point for finding the rest of the body. I absolutely hate taking measurements from the model and finding them on the sculpture. I much prefer to go by eye. About this time I go back to the photographic reference I used to make the model. |
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| I define the left foreleg of the big cat. I have actually moved it out, more in front than I had in the model - The more I lived with the model the more I felt that the left paw was too far under the lion and gave the lion a sense of being out of balance. |
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| I draw the features of the lions face, I also begin forming the right foot. |
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| After I mark the lines of the face I still cut wide - the chin is super wide, looks like she's smiling. |
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| The lines are muscles the cross hatched areas are too high and need to be cut down. |
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| Not only is the chin wide it is also too big over all. |
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| more refinement of forms - I am also removing stone from over the lions head. I am working over my head to do this and my arm gets worn out so I do as much as I can then go grind on a leg for a while. |
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| more areas to be removed. |
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| The lion is starting to come out.. |
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| The great thing about crayon is if I don't like it I can sand it off and try again. |
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| More refined but it's got a ways to go..... |
