Min-Gyu Han
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Wrapping up and self critique 2022 works.
🕑 Added 2022-12-22 12:57:09 +0000 UTCHi, all my patrons!
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This is a post I wrote around this time last year. There are probably some that have been kept and some plans that have not been kept.
This year is a pretty eventful year for me. What I remember is that I experienced depression, got drunk, got black out, my teeth broken, and broke up with my long-term lover, which was a moody year for me.
These personal circumstances have caused damage to subscribers. I apologize about this. I will try to keep the work deadline and promise by establishing a work system as much as possible.
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Let's talk about the work. And I welcome your criticism. I will try to provide better works through constructive advice.
1. Pose with a chair.
Most of my works have a lot of standing positions. But there's a limit to posing in a standing position. And the muscles are similar, so it's easy to make, but you can't avoid the monotonous feeling. So I made the pose of the nude model, but it's not attractive.
2/3/4. Kimono/ Yurei / Kitsune.
These are works based on the theme of Japanese ghosts. Originally, I was going to make Yuki Onna, but we changed the plan and made it into three costumes. The most memorable thing is the second costume, Yurei. I still remember carving out wrinkles to make wet clothes.
I personally like it, but it was not easy to appeal the charm with a half-turned looking. And there were so many parts that were covered.
5. Knights.
I remember this taking a very long time. I worked on it for a full month. It took a long time because it took quite a lot of work to carve horse muscles, sculpting stones, and sculpting the design and decoration of armor.
Unlike the previous work, base was made by rocks, and unlike the miniatures that were made before, it was intended to be made with an epic feeling. It is one of the most memorable and favorite works since I worked hard for a long time.
6. Gunslingers.
It's a work about cowgirls. Originally, only one woman sitting in the middle was going to work, but during the making, I found various costumes that I liked and sculpted several people. The three standing women were mostly brought from other old works, so it didn't take long, but the quality of their costumes and body quality are much inferior.
It's my favorite topic, but I was a little disappointed because the quality didn't come out as much as I thought. A female character with a gun always comes to me attractively, and if there is another good topic, I will ready to make it.
7. Black panther and Amazon.
The theme of the work was black panther and Amazon. Now, if you think about it, we're going to make a woman riding a riding animal like Sejuani in League of Legends. I usually buy commercial free licensed animals and sculpted them, which are quite difficult. Usually, I worked livestock a lot, but I've rarely worked predators, so it is difficult, and whenever I work on animals, I look for their muscles.
And it's the first painting I've ever worked on, with a black woman's face and a dress rock hair. Of course, there is a lot of awkwardness because I am still very immature. I don't really like the outfit either. If I had drawn a fancy tattoo, I would have looked a little more like a warrior.
8. Graffiti girl.
This is a work that has been made to study the anatomy. I tried to express the movement of the pelvis and femur naturally in the posture of spreading her legs. And this is a work that I worked on to study the process of folding the skin.
I worked on the pose first, and then I gave her a mask and a spray can. And I made a modern costume that I'm good at than other century costume. I made some sales unexpectedly, and I got good results unintentionally.
9. Office Succubus.
Succubus is one of the themes that I make every year. However, this year's Succubus failed a lot. The production intention was a sexy Succubus wearing a formal suit like Helltaker's demons, but it turned into a strange piece of work as the work progressed contrary to my intention.
The theme of the work is fixed, but the blueprint changes throughout the work in progress. And it's always mostly going in an unintended directions. Sometimes I get good results, sometimes I fail. This one is personally one of the worst this year. I'm going to try the Succubus again in 2023.
10. Maid.
Maid costumes were selected and worked on, but this is a complete failure. It's already the fourth time the Maid costume has been made. I worked on it easily because I've already done this costume, but when I see this character, she didn't look like a maid. It's no more than just a standing figure, and it's not attractive.
I should have secretly pursued sexiness by emphasizing more maid-like things with various situations, such as cleaning windows, cleaning bathtubs or wearing her outfit right away.
If I think about the posting at the time, O made it like this because the standing posture was selling well. But there's only one reason it didn't sell well. she is not attractive and I don't want to have it.
11. Pose 05.
I worked on the base of nude photography, and I worked on it to study for anatomy. There is no impressive memory in the work. The sales were not good, and the completeness of the work is not bad, but there are many disappointing parts. I thought 'Should I have made her more explicitly sexy?'
12/13. Murmillo & Hoplomachus Encountering.
I started working on the theme of gladiators, and it was easy to sculpt because many gladiators were already made in miniature, but it was not easy to lead to good results. When I work on a theme that someone has already produced, it is my job's destiny to make it better than the other one's work (in terms of quality and story). A work that needs explanation is not a good work.
The gladiator is a subject that I've already produced several times, so I worked on it easily. It would have been difficult to make a scene of bloody battle, but I think it would have been quite fun. I feel like I've ruined a good theme again.
14. Female Orc.
There have been several requests to make orc , and I was initially made into bust. Even though it was quite popular, I didn't continue to work. I kept planning about how to sculpt her lower body in that position. Then, the appropriate lower body posture was found, attached, and modified to sculpt.
I think my work has quite a lot of drawbacks. The biggest drawback is that all parts are made thin. Arms, legs, accessories, patterns, fingers, etc. The worst of them makes a woman's body thinner than it really is. Usually, I made her with 8~9 head figure according to the proportion of the model, and it makes look skinny. However, this work was quite muscular, so I had fun working on it. It's already been nearly three years since I haven't carved a male character. lol
15/16/17 Biker.
This sculpture has a strong memory of quite a long time of suffering. I should have adjusted the parts of that bike one by one. The intention of the work was to rob a bank and run away, then turn around and shoot. However, it was not easy to show money flying from a bag of money, so the intention was altered, and it was simply changed to turning around and shooting.
Looking at the three costumes, is it right to work like this way. All three costumes are subtly inferior in quality. Wrinkles and finishes are inferior to other works. Even if it takes time, I think I need to focus a little more when I close.
18. Magician.
I wondered why the topic was nominated and elected, and after watching the Japanese manga 'Magic Senpai', I was nominated for it. But for costumes, I referred to zatanna . The pose is dynamic, and the quality of the costumes and shoe props is generally good.
And from then on, the background of the screenshot began to change.
19/20. Valkyrie/ Angel.
This is the first work to make requests from long-term subscribers. He requested me for Valkyrie, and I worked quite satisfactorily. I like all the costumes, wings, and poses, but I think it would have been better if I paid more attention to the shape of the spear. As a result, I liked both works, and the quality of the works is satisfactory. However, Valkyrie's screenshot is a little dark, and gold is too saturated.(As some subscribers know, I have a color weakness, so I sometimes used little strange colors.)
21. Retro space girl
As the work progressed, this work came out better than I thought. I like the outfit quality, the machine monster, the face and this scene situation. The more recent work I've done, I don't see some disadvantages yet. Assuming that I work in the right direction and grow up, maybe half a year later, I'll start to see things that I'm going to disappoint myself.
22. Forest Dryad
This work was worked in a completely different direction from when it was selected. When I think about the posting at the time, at first, a woman was kneeling, and she was turning into a tree from her feet and back. The imagination in my head was pretty plausible, and I thought it would be pretty good. When I started the work, it was difficult to take out the contents of my head, and I changed the direction of the work.
As a result, I like the current work and the texture is quite good. However, when printed, the flowers are too small to see. It could have been okay if flowers were a little bigger, but it could have looked a little awkward in terms of proportion.
23. Water Nymph Andreea
This work was sculpted at the request of a long-time subscriber, and began with a single photo. There were two of the most difficult things in production, one is the face and another one is the water expression.
It is not easy to sculpt a water expression in its intended shape. And basically, it needs to be transparent and reflective to look like water, but it's too hard to express it only with sculptures. When you look at the water on the floor and the water on the wings, it looks plausible, but I can only give it three out of ten.
To be honest and when I look at myself objectively, my sculpting skills are only under halfway through of all modeler(and sculptor). Especially, I find it difficult to do imitation. and personally, it's because I lack concentration. So I'm difficult to do likeness sculpting. And since the development of 3D scan technology, I have not studied photo-realistic work at all. I should have worked more patiently on her face till the end.
24. Dejah Thoris
This work was also a request of an long-term subscriber. It finished faster than I thought. When I was sculpting, it was very difficult to work on her pose to fit the human anatomy. And there were no fixed costumes was also a big challenge.
To choose the disappointment of this work, it is the variety of decorations. Beads should have been used less frequently and linear patterns should have been made more diverse.
25. China Dress girl
I missed this piece while looking at the picture again! Due to MMF's error, this work was pushed somewhere.
This work was also produced at the request of a long-term subscriber. I didn't think the difficulty of the initial work was difficult. But I thought it was ridiculous that there was no pattern on the qipao, so I started to carve the pattern by myself. The pattern alone took about three days, and it was physically exhausting, but it was worth it.
What I regret watching this work is, I've been watching a Chinese movie recently, and I wonder what it was like to make a sleeve. And then I regret that I could have made a cut version.
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I always feel it is important to look back on the old work. I need to secure our shortcomings and further evolve my strengths. And if you read all of this long article, there are many excuses. As I work alone, I think I'm done and finish my work.
Flog me more in future work, of course I'll make a lot of excuses in the comments, but keep mentioning it and bullying me so that I can make you with a good work, and I'll develop in a good way.
And tell me what you liked and what you didn't like. I would appreciate it if you could also mention the reason for what part it is.
In the next post, I'm going to talk about my plans for next year.
Thank you always for your support and have a wonderful day!π
Comments
Jason Chetwynd-Chatwin
For an artist I think it's great that you look back at your own work. I would echo what others have said and say that you've done some great stuff over the last year. You have done a wide variety of subjects and poses. If there is one area that I feel may be quite unchanging, it is in the area of faces. I feel that a lot of your subjects have quite similar facial features. Perhaps there is a common model that you start from? In any case, maybe this is an area that could introduce some novelty to your figures. Thanks for the great work in 2022!
Arishat
You are too harsh on yourself.
