Blind Sculptor

Honestly, I thought about whether this could really be done and I would like to try some day. Not that it will happen because I doubt someone would actually like to be the model for it. It would be a bit too touchy-feely by nature. It seems like a serious challenge though that I would like to tackle with a blindfold. Might even work well as a tv-show.

I have done some sculpting just to see if I could, being a painter. I made a couple of pretty decent animal heads, fairly small. One lion and one gorilla. Just on the fly. I did a couple before that but with the wrong material so the detailing was not good enough.
I intended to go bigger but that required making skeletons of metal mesh and before I could start to experiment with that, regular work got in the way. 

I really liked doing it. It resembles painting, but of course it's 3D, which was a nice change.
The way it works is similar though. You have to visualise what you paint as if you're sculpting. But you don't have to worry as much about the sides you don't see. However, one has to imagine how the visible things connect to the invisible details nonetheless or it won't look convincing and natural.
Loads of preparations are needed to do something like this. Get enough material (clay or something synthetic) work with mesh wire set up the studio, get a model. So it isn't something to do spontaneous like painting digitally. But it would be great when it would turn out to be great.

I've googled for blind sculptors to see if it has been done already but I couldn't find it. There were some blind sculptors but they did portraits or more stylised work.  

Anyway; I like that the picture is such a mess. Suits the scene well. 

Sketch was posted earlier for higher Tiers. 

I think I can't post even this censored version on the Patreon page for all to see, as the sculpture might be too nude. They're strict about that here.