Hello
I have two major art projects I plan to start this year, the other one is making a 1:12 scale partial dollhouse from scratch. If people are interested I can start a thread for that as well
Anyway, on to the horse. He's going to be a Friesian stallion. His size will be roughly 12x9 inches, which is the same size as Traditional Breyers. So if you have any of those at home you'll know how big he'll be.
I've been sculpting all my life and have done lots of animals but never a horse (that I remember) and never anything realistic at this scale. I'll be using Super Sculpey for most of it but might use Cosclay on the ears and legs. I've only worked with it a tiny bit and I hate the texture, so we'll see. He will also be painted a rich shiny black and have mohair mane, tail and feathers. I might also try to make the eyes out of resin. I'm not sure, I'm very new to resin.
I have saved dozens of pictures for refs and have the amazing book Animal Anatomy for Artists by Eliot Goldfinger.
The first thing that needs to be done is the armature. I'm using 9 and 14 gauge aluminum wire and aluminum foil for bulk. I need to figure out how big to make the armature because I need to leave room for the clay if I want to stay around the size I want. I make miniatures, but usually those don't require armature, so I've never had to do this before. I am bad at math and judging size and unfortunately do not have any Breyers that aren't packed away to use as a guide. I'll have to rough sketch a 12x9 horse shape and use that.
This is probably going to be a long project. I'll still be making other things, custom ponies, pony charms and the dollhouse and whatever else. I tend to jump around
I urge you to look up Friesians if you don't know what they look like. They do have colors other than black, but the black is the original and it makes them look so awesome.
Oh, pose. I am going to do a semi-trotting pose. I have refs of it. Friesians have a very elegant gait.
Okay! Here's the first official pic!
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