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Get StartedGestural Sculpting with Blender
Rough, Rapid, Yet Recognizable
Gestural sculpting is like sketching in 3D. And just like sketching, the core idea is to achieve essential shapes and forms in a quick-n-dirty fashion. Precision is not the goal; rather the goal is a rough but recognizable sculpture.
The benefit of learning to sculpt gesturally is an increase in speed but also rapid familiarity with shape-forming. It's a valuable approach if you'd like to level up general sculpting proficiency. But if you're interested human anatomy, gestural sculpting is a great way to boost your anatomy formation.
The subject in this video is an extreme yoga pose gesturally sculpted in under 30 minutes. If you follow along, I recommend that you continue practicing with the Gestural Sculpting Exercising.