Muscle References 💪🏻

So that you know what shape to make your clay pieces in and how to place them on the body as you're bulking up your sculpture.

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Hand References 🤚🏻

Feet References 🦶🏻

For more muscle placement and muscle guide references, ​I have been putting together a Pinterest Board to aide me and whomever finds it useful in the creation of proportionate sculpting. I hope you enjoy it.

Scaled Printouts

Use these guides to know where the bending point of the body should be to ensure you'll have a proportionate figure as an end-result. The overlying skeleton will help you know where to bend your armature as you're creating it with these guides. These are already formatted so that all you have to do after download is print on an 8.5x11 sized paper.
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If an additional size is needed, contact me and I'd be happy to provide create it for you.

​3 & 4"

Sizing Guide 3-4inch.pdf
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​4-10"

4-10 inch Printouts
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11"

11_inch.pdf
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11.5"

11.5_inch.pdf
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12"

12_inch.pdf
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12.5"

12.5_inch.pdf
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14"

14_inch.pdf
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Due to sizing, this printout spans over 2 pages. Print them out and tape them together.

Sizing, Placement & References

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These are a collection of images I found on Pinterest that I find really helpful in making realistic figures. The book to the left I highly recommend as it is incredibly thorough and will drastically help you understand anatomy.

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🧜🏻‍♀️ Mermaid Reference Files

This will grow in time.

mermy_cheat_sheet.pdf
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I’ve included some fin patterns that are sized to the human reference guide on the next page for you to print out. Print them out and use them as your guide to create the fins proportionate to the size of figure you’re making.
Find different sizings below to download.

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🧜🏻‍♀️   Sized Mermaid Fin Sheets   🧜🏻‍♂️

7" Figure

sized_fins_7in..pdf
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8" Figure

sized_fins_8in..pdf
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9" Figure

sized_fins_9in..pdf
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10" Figure

sized_fins_10in..pdf
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11" Figure

sized_fins_11in..pdf
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12" Figure

sized_fins_12in..pdf
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Body Shapes

I wanted to give you all visual aides on the different body shapes as I know not everyone likes to sculpt artdolls with perfectly muscular bodies. Human beings are much more diverse than that, so I created these videos that you can pause at any point to highlight those body shapes for your reference.
This list of body shapes will continue to grow with time to include a diversity of bodies.

Females

Males