What are the different ways to sculpt?

Question

I've been really interested in sculpting since yesterday when i finished my sculpting merit badge.

Answer 1

Additive - adding some on (like gluing wood together)

Subtractive - removing some (like chiseling away stone)

Modeling - manipulating a material (like smoothing clay into a figure)

Assemblage - taking different things and putting them all together (like building a go-cart)

Reconstructive - taking something apart, and putting it back together in a different way (like taking apart an old computer and using the parts to make a fish)

Answer 2

You finished your merit badge and you didn't encounter an answer to that basic question?

The basic divisions of sculpting are additive/positive and subtractive/negative. If you build up the sculpture by adding material - clay, paper paste, wax - it is positive or additive and is generally considered easier - but when you get done the result is not considered permanent - it is used for casting a bronze or a plaster, etc. An exception is when welding processes with metal are used to add pieces of metal or even molten metal and with glass sculpting from molten.

If you take a solid block of something - wood, marble, granite, cast plaster - and carve away at it, then that is negative or subtractive sculpting and the risk is always that you will take too much away or encounter a flaw inside. The results are usually considered a permanent product.

Answer 3

Clay, paper mache, plaster, natural materials (leaves, dirt, etc)