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Because of the activity in the studio recently,I've been working on my Homo Erectus sculpture sporadically. I was able to finish roughing it out only over the past two weeks.
Recently, I've been experimenting with applying skin texture to this sculpture. The challenge is what type of texture should this figure have? Homo Erectus according to researchers went extinct roughly 400,000 years ago so preserved remains which show skin texture does not exist.
I've looked at other artists who specifically attempted this subject. They range from an almost completely modern African body with a primitive skull inserted to a man ape. Now of course to be fair, no one knows with certainty Lake Turkana Boy's actual appearance. The skeletal remains only infer that his body functionally and proportionately are similar to a modern human. So the assumption is that this individual would have a more human like appearance.
Although, I'm not making a sculpture for a museum diorama, I still want it to look just like one. As I mentioned before the goal is a contemporary art statement not a didactic model.
My main question is for this clay model: What type of skin texture should this figure have? I'm making the assumption that his skin was different but not ape like.Why? Because we tend to forget that the other primates have evolved as well. To what degree,uncertain. Here I making another assumption that modern apes and their ancestors differ as well so to use a more ape like skin for this figure would assume that the apes have remained primitive and humans have not. We'll see how this approach will work out.
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| Image copyright Art Di Lella |
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| Image copyright Art Di Lella |
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| Image copyright Art Di Lella |
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| Image copyright Art Di Lella |
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| Image copyright Art Di Lella |
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| Image copyright Art Di Lella |
This is a gradual process but I hope to finish this model soon. Crossed fingers.
I'll be posting next week. I hope all of you great weekend. Cheers.
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