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title: Sculpture
description: Sculpture is the art of creating three-dimensional form in clay, stone, metal, wood, and modern materials. You will understand additive and subtractive techniques, armatures and modeling, carving and casting processes, and how sculptors think about mass, volume, and space.
category: arts-design
subcategory: creative-arts
difficulty: beginner, intermediate, advanced
url: /subject/sculpture
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# Sculpture

Sculpture is the art of creating three-dimensional form in clay, stone, metal, wood, and modern materials. You will understand additive and subtractive techniques, armatures and modeling, carving and casting processes, and how sculptors think about mass, volume, and space.

## Available Resources

2 Books

## Podcasts

### 1. The Sculptor's Funeral

**Author:** Jason Arkles

A podcast by Jason Arkles, a practicing figurative sculptor in Florence, covering sculpture history and craft across roughly 97 episodes: Greek canons of proportion, Donatello, Michelangelo, terracotta and bronze techniques, tools, materials, and interviews with sculptors and historians.

**Difficulty:** Beginner | **Language:** English | **Price:** Free

**Link:** https://www.thesculptorsfuneral.com/episodes

**Tags:** sculpture, figurative-sculpture, sculpture-history, bronze-casting, renaissance-art

## Books

### 1. From Clay to Bronze: A Studio Guide to Figurative Sculpture

**Author:** Tuck Langland

A complete studio guide to the figurative sculpture process: armature building, oil- and water-clay modeling, waste and rubber molds, wax working, lost-wax bronze casting, chasing, and patination. Explains how each stage constrains the next, from first sketch to finished bronze.

**Difficulty:** Intermediate | **Language:** English | **Price:** Paid

**Link:** https://www.amazon.com/dp/0823006387?tag=edmonddante07-20

**Tags:** figurative-sculpture, clay-modeling, mold-making, lost-wax-casting, patination

### 2. Modelling and Sculpting the Human Figure

**Author:** Édouard Lanteri

Édouard Lanteri's late-19th-century studio manual, still the standard text on clay modeling. Covers building armatures, modeling the head and full figure from life, measurement systems, relief, drapery, and composition, with over 300 photographs and diagrams documenting the complete academic method.

**Difficulty:** Intermediate | **Language:** English | **Price:** Paid

**Link:** https://www.amazon.com/dp/0486250067?tag=edmonddante07-20

**Tags:** figurative-sculpture, clay-modeling, armatures, relief-sculpture, academic-method

## Youtubes

### 1. Philippe Faraut — Portrait and Figure Sculpting Demonstrations

**Author:** Philippe Faraut

Full-length free demonstrations by portrait sculptor Philippe Faraut, who has produced instructional sculpting material since 1993. Real-time modeling of heads, hands, expressions, and figures in water-based clay, showing planes of the face, proportion canons, and tool handling.

**Difficulty:** Intermediate | **Language:** English | **Price:** Free

**Link:** https://www.youtube.com/@sculpit

**Tags:** portrait-sculpture, figurative-sculpture, clay-modeling, facial-anatomy

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