Écorché 1 students attach skeletal volumes to their armatures.
Écorché 1 has been in session for 4 weeks, and students are well into developing their rudimentary skeletal volumes. These are cut from proportionally correct blocks of clay first, and then arranged on a wire armature. This approach differs from how we would begin a figure sculpture (in our Sculpture Basics class for example), but the écorché figure is not simply a sculpture, but is also an anatomical learning and reference piece where structural accuracy is particularly important. We want students to understand why the figure looks the way it does, and so a good start – where the skull, ribcage and pelvis are well proportioned and arranged – is paramount.
