This document provides guidance for 3D artists on sculpting busts, recommending techniques like distortion, exaggeration, fragmentation, and simplification to express emotion. It references sculptors like Rodin and Giacometti who used these techniques, and encourages experimenting with different modeling instruments beyond traditional clay, like wood blocks or wire.

1. Bust Project: 3D Artists

2. Alberto Giacometti Auguste Rodin
Eduardo Paolozzi
Distortion
Expression
Emotion
Exaggeration
Fragmentation Modular
Simplification
Gestural
Obsession
“… he would
make your head
look like the
blade of a knife”
Constructivism
Mechanical
Industrial
“…solemn
machine-like
forms”
Naturalism
“What makes
my Thinker
think is that
he thinks not
only with his
brain, with
his knitted
brow, his
distended
nostrils and
compressed
lips, but with
every muscle
of his arms,
back, and
legs, with his
clenched fist
and gripping
toes.”
Try using an
different
instrument to
model with I.e.
a block of small
wood or a piece
of wire
Try
sculpting a
bust using
small bits
of clay and
not
smoothing
the surface