I don't know if this is early or late because I'm having a lot of trouble remembering when we're supposed to submit these. Anyway, we had a bunch of crits lately and I did not care for many of them. No offense to the crititiquers. That one dude from the other college made several good points which I suppose I should consider seeing as I still need and idea for my body of work (can I call it that if it's only 1 piece?) so that I can write that artist statement thingy. But I haven't got any of the kind of feedback I've really wanted so I finally decided to e-mail a professional equine sculptor for a critique. Luckily she agreed to do it and I found it immensely helpful. Here are some of the many pics I sent her.
She said it was a good start but there were a few tweaks to be made, the most obvious being that the hindquarters of my sculpture were square rather than trapezoidal. It took a bit of work, but I fixed them and several other things and I'm much happier now. (Below is the picture before the change)
I'm working on the joints now in addition to the inner legs. I'm struggling a bit as it's difficult to find good references, but I'm sure I'll get through it. I have another critique scheduled in a month or two, once I am nearly finished. I couldn't be more excited or grateful for the help.
Oh, and I went and tried to take reference pictures of the babies, but they're pretty fuzzy so I'm not sure how helpful they'll be. Plus they're really old compared to what I'm going for, but they're still super cute. So definitely not a waste of time.
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