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Originally Posted by ReTardist
I have studied Moore's sculpt inside out and backwards. I used it as reference for my own piece. I promise you, there are things Moore did that deviate quite a bit from the painting, but when you are trying to sculpt something 3d from 2d control art, you start to see why these decisions are made. The one thing he totally changed was the angle of right arm (resting on the dagger). I was critical of this at first, but as my sculpt developed, I started to understand why he did it that way. I basically ended up doing the same thing LOL Moore did a great job. No doubt
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it looks to me like so far you are doing a bang up job on the Barbarian- and a very conscientious one.
Here's the thing- Frazetta was a commercial artist and an admitted procrastinator. A lot of these paintings that fans , and pros like Ehren, are looking at like Holy Writ, were dashed off to meet a deadline. Sometimes at the last minute.
Sure, FF had enormous technical skill, a photographic memory and decades of practical experience- but he also wasn't above cutting corners where ever possible. I first learned this from a crusty old bookseller in the 80's who thought Frazetta was way overrated. Any time he could get out of painting hands and feet, obscuring them in shadow or sunken in mud, he would. He could draw these elements as good as anyone and better than 99.9% of them, but to fudge them in a painting that was going to be reproduce in a live area about 4" x 4" was a fully practical approach to meeting a deadline.
I just say that because I fully realize Ehren and others are going to have to deviate on more than one occasion and square the circles he left. And I hope other people realize that also and don't give them too much grief for having to interpret according to their best judgement.