Proportion when Sculpting a Bust

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All right. Now that we've kind of felt out where things are going to go on the head, we want to kind of get things in proportion. So, like I was saying in the last class, the eyes are actually pretty low here, so I want to bring the eyebrows down a little bit so the eyes are in proportion with the size of the head. So, I?m just bringing these, the bone of the skull down a little bit to where the eyes set more in proportion. My ears are going to come out here because the ear will start at the top of where the eye is and the bottom of the nose will be the bottom of the ear. Those are just simple guidelines that I use, and I use those in drawing as well. And then, right now the chin is a little sunken in, so I don't really like that, so what I'm going to do is, I'm just going to go and grab me a piece of clay and then I'm going to add to the jaw a piece of clay to make the chin more in proportion. And so upon doing like...before I do the features if it is in proportion, it'll start to look like a skull without any eyes and nose. If the actual skin of the nose wasn't there that would, you know, it would look like a skull that you see everywhere. So, now that I've lined up where my ears are going to be, and my eyes are going to be set here, my nose, the mouth is going to be here, the head is actually in proportion.

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