(Part 2) Best sculpture books according to redditors
We found 78 Reddit comments discussing the best sculpture books. We ranked the 32 resulting products by number of redditors who mentioned them. Here are the products ranked 21-40. You can also go back to the previous section.
The white guy at the end is John Gurche. He is the artist who made the figures seen in the video. This video was created as a promo for his book, Shaping Humanity about how art is used to help us understand human origins. The original video seen here was put out by Yale University Press. Someone then took it, removed the book promos and reposted it.
Cat, Mouse, and Cheese by David Brill. His site does have some diagrams, but not that particular cat. There's a sitting cat, though.
His book: Brilliant Origami: A Collection of Original Design
Also, you might be able to find a pdf of Tanteidan Convention Book 10 online, which I heard does have the instructions.
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I walked the same path. Forget everything you know.
Introducing Zbrush was a good place to start learning how to use it.
Youtube have tutorials on almost anything that you would like to learn.
This book will get you started.
And this book will carry you even further.
Well, it depends on what kind of origami you want to do.
These days I mostly do modular (fancy word for multi-piece) geometrical origami, and I love models that are simple and robust. Super-thin origami specialty paper works just fine, but I don't really need the level of precision it offers. So I use paper from brightly colored office memo cubes and old page-a-day calendars. Sometimes those pages are a bit off from truly square but they're close enough.
Thin, dedicated origami paper is a necessity if you're going to fold a complicated, single-sheet model like John Montroll's lobster (from this wonderful book) or Robert Lang's ant (from this excruciating gauntlet). Ordinary paper gets too thick and unwieldy with all the layers.
Sometimes the models in books and online galleries appear to be made from paper beyond your generic craft-store sheets, though. Maybe there are high-end origami paper retailers? I can only assume so. Beyond that, I've seen blog posts from people who mention they craft their own paper, which is a dizzying height of showoffery that I shall probably never attain.
Look for John Montroll's books on origami. His designs are fairly difficult, but also well detailed and easy to follow (for the most part.) Just pick up one of his books and dig in. The first few designs will be tough, but you'll pick up the skills pretty fast. That's how I started and now I'm making dragons and dinosaurs like a boss.
For a dragon, I'd check out Mythological Creatures and the Chinese Zodiac in Origami, but my personal favorite is Prehistoric Origami.
Hope that helps. And happy folding! :)
Ditto. my son just built some cool things after he read through the Art of the Brick book by Nathan Sawaya.
This book explains everything you need to know:
http://www.amazon.com/dp/0764312243
The Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini
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I found this by accident in my local library. You may like it.
http://www.amazon.com/North-American-Animals-Origami-Montroll/dp/0486286673/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1311232032&sr=8-1 has a very nice deer. John Montroll books are great for starting out and have a great range of complexity with nice looking results even for the easy models.
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some good books you can use for figurative sculpting:
https://www.amazon.com/Portrait-Sculpting-Anatomy-Expressions-Clay/dp/0975506501/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1540671406&sr=8-1&keywords=phillipe+faraut
https://www.amazon.com/Clay-Bronze-Studio-Figurative-Sculpture/dp/0823006387/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1540671453&sr=8-1&keywords=tuck+langland
https://www.amazon.com/Beginners-Guide-Sculpting-Characters-Clay/dp/1909414409/ref=sr_1_4?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1540671519&sr=1-4&keywords=figure+sculpting