Re: Build's log of lizardman sculpting and conversions.
New update, working hard on getting things done and today that means scales....lots and lots of scales...
The basis here is to be mindful of the anatomy underneath, this includes muscles, boney prominences and masses, all of which I will cover below.
So the basic work here is to start getting the larger spikes in, this follow two rules, the first is the largest of the spikes would be towards the center of the masses and the surrounding spikes getting smaller and smaller. The second thing to bear in mind is the placement of the larger spikes with regards to masses and boney prominences.
Boney prominences are unlikely to have any scales covering them, or at the least they would be very small and with a lot of space around them. This is because there is a large amount of muscle attachment to these areas and movement that goes on around them, so being covered in large restrictive spikes does not make any sense as it would limit movement.
With the larger spikes and scales down I then work out in all directions each new ring gets smaller and smaller.
I typically work on one side and complete it, check the work and then measure up the second side, this is more of a personal preference thing rather than anything else.
I've also taken this opportunity to try out some new ideas, in this case those are small scales around the collar bone and adding a larger chunk to be a boney growth that also acts as the manubrium.
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- under armature base and build up.
- A scaleless and trinketless stage, more work goes over the top of this one, details and extras. You can see the blocks for deltoids I've been laying down, the same technique is used on the pecs to add more than just structure alone.
