My FIRST TIME Carving Marble

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  @BMSculptures · 6 months ago (edited) · pinned

  What should I Carve out of the other two marble stones!? - Big Marble Guy

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  @Mooba2 · 6 months ago

  The reason these busts are iconic is because when these statues were stolen, they often broke the arms and legs off. The heads were often displayed separately. I'd love to see an artwork that brings the pieces back together. A marble torso with resin arms legs and head. Or vice versa. Would be so cool

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  @chrissiebeneck3294 · 6 months ago

  "Off cuts" could be made into a set of dominos

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  @thaumaticpig · 6 months ago

  Imagine the OGs like Michelangelo doing this with no power tools and no modern PPE

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  @LinguaMentis · 4 months ago

  Hey man, first off, huge respect. For a first time working marble, this came out incredibly well. You can tell you approached the material with patience instead of forcing it, and that matters a lot with stone.<br><br>My family works in marble here in Italy, directly in the quarrying and stone industry, so watching your process was really cool for us.<br><br>About the leftover marble pieces and dust: traditionally here, almost nothing gets truly “thrown away.” Bigger offcuts can become smaller sculptures, bases, tiles, mosaics, test pieces, or even decorative objects. Smaller fragments are often crushed and reused as aggregate, terrazzo material, lime products, landscaping stone, or industrial calcium carbonate. Even marble powder/slurry from sanding and polishing can sometimes be recycled depending on the type of stone and processing.<br><br>For carving, you were actually pretty brave jumping straight into it. In Italy, especially for roughing out, many sculptors would normally use toothed chisels (gradina), point chisels, pneumatic hammers, and diamond tools before moving into finer rifflers and abrasives. For sanding and polishing marble, diamond pads in progressive grits with water are usually preferred because they keep the stone cooler, reduce dust, and give a much cleaner finish.<br><br>Also, Carrara marble in particular can be deceptive. It looks soft until it suddenly chips where you don’t want it to. You handled that better than most beginners would.<br><br>If you ever come to Italy, you’d be more than welcome to visit and see how we do it here around the marble quarries and workshops. My family and I are big fans of your channel, and it’d honestly be fun showing you the traditional side of the craft. Ciao

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  @chriskruining · 6 months ago

  I think that black stone would be a really cool curled up sleeping cat. A cozy and calm sculpture

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  @IronDragon1337 · 6 months ago

  <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ToVqhxjTvSw&amp;t=925">15:25</a> Hi i&apos;m a geologist: this is most likely pyrite, AKA &quot;fool&apos;s gold&quot;, comprised of FeS2. Iron and sulfur-rich fluids likely penetrated fractures in the host marble long after it was metamorphosed from limestone, its previous petrological iteration. Unable to react with anything else, iron and sulfur (both maybe even present due to decomposition of the lifeforms that originally formed the limestone) combined to fill the fractures. There&apos;s also probably gray or dull-metallic material, which is likely pyrrhotite, with the formula Fe(1-x)S, or less likely sphalerite, with the formula (Zn,Fe)S. Also you didn&apos;t ask, but I wanted to provide some insight on marble&apos;s properties; as a metamorphic rock, it is extremely tough from being squished and heated for a long time. This is why its so darn tough to chip at, and also why it is liable to fail along a specific weakened plane.

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  @StarSwarm. · 6 months ago

  The metal is iron sulfide (pyrite). It’s a relatively common inclusion in many types of rock.

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  @isaakboes6781 · 6 months ago

  I&apos;m not a sculptor, but I have worked with 3d modeling and collect a lot of rocks. I believe marble give the impression of skin so well is because of its subsurface scattering! essentially some materials (like skin and some stone) will allow a small amount of light past their surface, meaning they are just slightly translucent. This light then picks up the color of the material and scatters back out. This effect is very subtle, but it can make all the difference in reality.

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  @degloome1378 · 6 months ago (edited)

  Ex-stonemason here (sandstone). You want to be using the tool with the teeth for most of the roughing out. Only go in with the smaller flat chisel once you&apos;re finalising the sculpt. (Or establishing a flat plane to apply next stencil).

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  @Masaims · 6 months ago (edited)

  As someone who’s been struggling with anatomy studies for years, I’d love to recommend Magic Poser for your next anatomy-based sculpture it’s full of 3D models you can move around and study from any angle.<br>Your sculpture is stunning, though it has a few anatomical things that throw off the natural balance a bit. The contrapposto that classical pose used in painting and sculpture works on the idea that the hips and shoulders tilt in opposite directions. In your piece, the shoulders lift while the hips stay straight, which removes some of the flow and movement. They should kind of oppose each other to make the pose feel more alive.<br>The human body and its muscles move like leaves carried by the wind when the shoulder lifts, the chest follows; when one side stretches, the other expands. It’s a dance of flesh and curves. Capturing that is insanely hard, and even more so in sculpture. I already struggle to get it right when drawing and I can erase, I can’t even imagine how tough it must be in sculpture.

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  @elenin.3228 · 6 months ago

  Make silicone molds of little statuettes or any kind of small sculptures you might have already carved, collect the marble dust, mix it up with resin and pour it into the molds. You&apos;ll be surprised at how much the mixture looks like solid stone after you demold it. You can use the products as merch, or whatever else you like.

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