I’m confident the answer to the initial question is “yes”, but in my little corner of the world I’ve never met a sculptor - no students, no teachers, no amateurs or professionals - and I don’t recall hearing about significant sculptures being erected anywhere in the last few decades.
Sculpting fascinates me, but I’m totally ignorant of how it works. If you’re a sculptor -
- when/how did you start? Do you start with clay and pottery?
- How do you “practice”? Play-doh? Gotta imagine it’s different based on your preferred medium?
- do artists still use marble? Seems like it’d be insanely expensive & one mistake screws the whole thing up
I discovered I could sculpt a couple years ago, which was revolutionary for me because I’ve been trying to draw my entire life but disabilities have always made it extremely difficult. But I can just sculpt without really even thinking about it! Form is so much easier to grasp (no pun intended) than image.
I love working with Blender’s sculpting tools, which is where I discovered sculpting. Digital sculpture has a LOT going for it and I haven’t done a lot with physical media, but the stuff I’ve done has been fun and not hampered by my disabilities either.
Hey jerkface! I keep meaning to dive further into Blender sculpting. I like tinkering with Python too & sounds like the two pair well.
It’s so much fun!! You have to “retopologize” scuplts if you want to do anything more than static renders, which is a whole different skill, but if all you want is something you can print or render, I think that real world sculpting skills would transfer very well and be sufficient.