I started sculpting straight away without using ecorche technique. I felt confident enough to go with sculpting from the start as I've been studying human anatomy for quite few years now. But even though I haven't painted anything, I still used my clay brush to make identification lines first.
This exercise was extremely helpful for me as I was able to fill my blind spots, the angles that I never drew before. After all those years of studying it was embarrassing to find out that I still don't understand how armpit area is connected. Scapula and clavicle connection point became more clear to me too.
As reference I used photos that we've been provided with+ my own reference scans from books.
Sculpting hand was the most hard task from all the body. I am still not happy with a result, it probably will take me about 10 sculpts more to get something decent. But it helps, hands were my weak spot, now I really want to study them and not skipping them every time I draw.
Sculpting head was the most fun bit. Though I failed a bit here too. There is some level of similarity, but not really high. I wanted to sculpt Vin Diesel, found some good reference images, unexpectedly it was quite hard, especially considering how famous is this actor. The main problem with my reference images was that almost all angles were of a person of different age. At least it felt that way.
Second reason why I failed at it, is beacuse I wanted to try how similar I can make the model without using spotlight. Next time I will definitely go with the spotlight.
Despite all the trouble, when everything was joined into one piece, it looked much better. When head or hand are on their own, mistakes look more critical, but when they become part of something bigger, you don't pay that much attention to them. I am quite happy with how whole thing came out, and it definitely was a very good practice.
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