Study of Elsa Lanchester - " Frankies Bride"
Sculpting a "portrait" is always challenging for me.
I mostly prefer to sculpt "free" and not to follow a guideline and
a portrait for me is a guideline ;-)
However, if I like the face/figure/whatever I sometimes do them.
A collector asked me, if I can do Elsa Lanchester as "Frankensteins Bride".
I love "darker sculpts" (ok...Elsa as The Bride of Frankenstein is not really sooo dark ;-) ), witches, vampires etc. and so I said yes.
To get familar with her face, I decided to first did a sketch of it and well...here it is:
I hope, I will be able to "catch her face in clay" as it is one thing, to sketch or draw a face but another to sculpt it.
For sculpting you have to imagine the face "without everything"....no color, no little blushes etc. on the skin, no hair, no brows, no eyelashes.
But you tend to "sculpt what you see" and if you do that and THEN add lashes, hair, color etc...you will fail...the face will look...strange... lol.
I hope to find the time, to start to sculpt her face in the next few days..
and I hope, I will make it!
Wishing you all a creative day 🎨
