Hi,
I have just started a new piece yesterday I will be refining and posing detailing etc this over the anatomy course with Scott Eaton for about 8 weeks …I hope it will be a good one . Its based on the story of St. Mary of Egypt. She spent 47 years of her life in the desert .
Here is what I have got by far :
Thanks,
Hristina
Looks like a great start. Looking forward to the finished piece!
Thanks a lot ! I will spent quite a while on this particular one as I plan to go really in depth for a first time because all my other sculpts so far are very fast and will see what will comes out in the very end i will keep updating …
Thanks,
Hristina
everything is in place for a wonderful piece, keep it going , I’d love to see it achieved, i’m sure it’ll be great. I Feel some sort of sadness or despair in the face of your model, or maybe it’s just the fragility of the elderly, I don’t know, but I sure like it 
Thank you so much! Yes I am trying to achieve the fragility of the elderly and to show the she has lead a difficult life 47 years in the desert - it based on a life-story of a Saint …i am just trying to portray the way i picture Her… its still at a very basic stage and even without any clothes etc but will get there slowly… hopefully the end result will be quite powerful.
Thanks again,
All the best,
Hristina
New updates :
New updates :
Reminds me of Clotho (http://www.rodin-web.org/claudel/bio/pix/clotho.jpg) by Camille Claudel. Which as far as I’m concerned is a very good thing
Love the face, has a lot of character. I’d say you could probably find some more of that kind of character in the bones. For example, the arch of the ribcage, which feels like a very clean sweep right now, if that makes sense (the cartilage there tends to be quite wavy, rhythmical), and the shin, which feels quite straight up and down. I think you could find more of the epicondyles of the humerus, the bony points of the ankles, and the bones of the knee. Some of what you’ve got going on in the shoulder girdle is working really nicely from that point of view.
Just some thoughts Exciting looking project man, keep it up!
Hey Thanks so much that was soo helpful ! I have worked on the body and face more …hopefully its getting somewhere near what i picture it:
Thanks,
Hristina
New updates i have change the face like it was from the start but now doing the clothes but i will go back to the body after i finish the clothes properly :
Nice update. What pose will she be in the final? Looking forward to your next update.
Thanks a lot! Well i am trying to recreate this scene of her life that Jusepe de ribera did a version of it… : here it is :
http://pegasusnews.com/media/img/photos/2011/09/20/thumbs/Mary_of_Egypt_Ecstasy.jpg.728x520_q85.jpg
New updates…got to work on some of the primary and mostly the secondary shapes and and then details but i will do it once its posed :
New Update:
that progresses well 
In fact I like your version more than the Jusepe de Ribera’s one. there’s such misery in her face…Beautiful…
I’ll be watching as you go on 
Some more new renders :
