How should I learn to sculpt?
I studied sculpture in university, so I won’t be of much help with regards to finding beginning classes in the community. You’re onto something with your insight that spacial thinking is important to traditional sculpture, but remember that art is yours to play with. My grandfather was an amateur painter for 20 years before picking up clay, and his sculptures reflect that experience. They’re simply tablets with not-quite-3d shapes carved out of them and then painted. Works for him, and they’re neat and original to look at. But I assume you want to practice more traditional sculpture. To improve your spatial thinking, just do it — it will get better with practice. Just about every sculpture class I’ve taken has spent time initially getting a feel for the medium (as in: create something — anything — with a straight part and a curved part). This is usually followed by a lot of time finding increasingly complex objects that are already 3d, and just sculpting a duplicate (usually actual
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