Reddit mentions: The best sculpture books
We found 78 Reddit comments discussing the best sculpture books. We ran sentiment analysis on each of these comments to determine how redditors feel about different products. We found 32 products and ranked them based on the amount of positive reactions they received. Here are the top 20.
1. Origami Design Secrets: Mathematical Methods for an Ancient Art
- Used Book in Good Condition
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Height | 11 Inches |
Length | 8.5 Inches |
Weight | 3.75006307662 Pounds |
Width | 1 Inches |
2. Origami Omnibus: Paper Folding for Everybody
- Used Book in Good Condition
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Height | 7.2 Inches |
Length | 9.9 Inches |
Number of items | 1 |
Release date | November 1998 |
Weight | 2.14 Pounds |
Width | 1.2 Inches |
3. Origami from Angelfish to Zen (Dover Origami Papercraft)
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Height | 11.5 Inches |
Length | 8.75 Inches |
Number of items | 1 |
Release date | August 1994 |
Weight | 1.6 Pounds |
Width | 0.75 Inches |
4. Origami for the Connoisseur
- "Provides step-by-step guidance for aspiring computer recordists. Covers the fundamental concepts of digital recording in 30 easy steps -- by doing one lesson a day, new recording artists will be proficient in just a month! Includes a 30-day free trial of REAPER software on the companion CD. Perfect as a starter text for any entry-level class in audio and computer recording."
- "Provides step-by-step guidance for aspiring computer recordists. Covers the fundamental concepts of digital recording in 30 easy steps -- by doing one lesson a day, new recording artists will be proficient in just a month! Includes a 30-day free trial of REAPER software on the companion CD. Perfect as a starter text for any entry-level class in audio and computer recording."
- "Covers the fundamental concepts of digital recording in 30 easy steps -- by doing one lesson a day, new recording artists will be proficient in just a month!"
- Includes a 30-day free trial of REAPER software on the companion CD.
- Perfect as a starter text for any entry-level class in audio and computer recording.
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Height | 10 Inches |
Length | 7.1 Inches |
Number of items | 1 |
Weight | 1 Pounds |
Width | 0.5 Inches |
5. Patina: 300+ Coloration Effects for Jewelers & Metalsmiths
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- Mint Condition
- Dispatch same day for order received before 12 noon
- Guaranteed packaging
- No quibbles returns
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Color | Grey |
Height | 10.26 Inches |
Length | 8.75 Inches |
Number of items | 1 |
Release date | February 2014 |
Weight | 2.59484082374 Pounds |
Width | 0.95 Inches |
6. Contemporary Stone Sculpture: Aesthetics Methods Appreciation
- Used Book in Good Condition
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Height | 10.25 Inches |
Length | 7.25 Inches |
Number of items | 1 |
Weight | 1.67 Pounds |
Width | 0.75 Inches |
7. Mythological Creatures and the Chinese Zodiac in Origami
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Height | 11 Inches |
Length | 8.5 Inches |
Number of items | 1 |
Release date | March 1996 |
Weight | 0.80027801106 Pounds |
Width | 0.25 Inches |
8. Crafting Wood Logic Puzzles: 18 Three-dimensional Games for the Hands and Mind
Used Book in Good Condition
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Height | 11 Inches |
Length | 8.25 Inches |
Number of items | 1 |
Release date | June 2006 |
Weight | 0.98326168852 Pounds |
Width | 0.375 Inches |
9. Origami Insects (Dover Origami Papercraft)
- Wristwatches
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Height | 10.75 Inches |
Length | 8.25 Inches |
Number of items | 1 |
Release date | June 1995 |
Weight | 0.98767093376 Pounds |
Width | 0.5 Inches |
10. North American Animals in Origami
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Height | 11.25 Inches |
Length | 8.75 Inches |
Number of items | 1 |
Release date | March 1995 |
Weight | 0.79145952058 Pounds |
Width | 0.5 Inches |
11. Quick & Easy Origami Boxes
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Height | 5.9 Inches |
Length | 5.9 Inches |
Width | 0.7 Inches |
12. Sculpture as Experience
Used Book in Good Condition
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Height | 11 Inches |
Length | 8.5 Inches |
Number of items | 1 |
Weight | 1.45 Pounds |
Width | 0.5 Inches |
13. Origami 3: Third International Meeting of Origami Science, Mathematics, and Education Sponsored by Origami USA
- Used Book in Good Condition
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Height | 9 Inches |
Length | 6 Inches |
Number of items | 1 |
Release date | July 2002 |
Weight | 1.433004703 Pounds |
Width | 0.83 Inches |
14. Traditional Blacksmithing: The Fine Art of Horseshoeing and Wagon Making
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Height | 7 Inches |
Length | 5 Inches |
Number of items | 1 |
Release date | March 2012 |
Weight | 0.36596735492 Pounds |
Width | 0.5 Inches |
15. Shaping Humanity: How Science, Art, and Imagination Help Us Understand Our Origins
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Height | 1.26 Inches |
Length | 10.34 Inches |
Number of items | 1 |
Weight | 3.62439958728 pounds |
Width | 8.86 Inches |
16. The Simple Screamer: A Guide to the Art of Papier and Cloth Mache
- Used Book in Good Condition
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Height | 10.75 Inches |
Length | 8.25 Inches |
Number of items | 1 |
Weight | 0.65 Pounds |
Width | 0.234 Inches |
17. Modular Origami Polyhedra, Revised and Enlarged Edition
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Height | 11.25 Inches |
Length | 8.75 Inches |
Number of items | 1 |
Release date | January 1999 |
Weight | 0.57 Pounds |
Width | 0.5 Inches |
18. Introducing ZBrush
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Height | 9.220454 Inches |
Length | 7.421245 Inches |
Number of items | 2 |
Weight | 2.1495045 Pounds |
Width | 0.83854163 Inches |
19. From Clay to Bronze: A Studio Guide to Figurative Sculpture
- Tuck Langland, From Clay to Bronze: A Studio Guide to Figurative Sculpture, paperback
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Height | 10.83 Inches |
Length | 8.55 Inches |
Number of items | 1 |
Release date | November 1999 |
Weight | 1.90038469844 Pounds |
Width | 0.52 Inches |
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For any beginner, I highly recommend Traditional Blacksmithing by John Holstrom.
Holstrom wrote this book, originally released as Modern Blacksmithing, which is a compilation of notes he took while he was working, in 1904. This is not a guide to techniques and methods of Blacksmithing; this a book of wisdom. Holstrom begins his book with a discussion of what it takes to be a good smith. According to Holstrom,
>"the smith [in the old days] was a well-liked person in society, respected and even admired for his skill, his gentlemanly behavior, and good language".
He discusses the importance of a well maintained shop, and upholding a good work ethic. Alongside this, you will find a wealth of tips and tricks to use around the anvil and forge. Overall, it's a great little book and definitely worthy of a good read.
Here comes a wall of text so brace yourselves.
First, stone carving is awesome, it is what I do and it is like an addiction. No better material to sculpt with IMHO. There is something to be said from learning autodidactically (I was originally self taught but have done some formal training), but you also don't need to waste time re-inventing the wheel. So do some research, but don't be afraid to break the "rules as you get a feel for things.
Soap stone carving is very different from other stone, as the tools and techniques are completely different. I started with limestone, and now work in Marble and Granite. Be fore warned, unless you have a quarry nearby, soapstone is very expensive($2-$3/lbs). If you decide you like carving after a couple of test sculptures in soapstone, I suggest that you find out what is quarried in your area, and see about getting material from the scrap pile (often way cheaper for material).
The set you have will give you a basic ability to work on very soft stone. I would need to see a better picture of the blunt end of the tool but it is likely either for burnishing(rubbing) or possibly for cutting rounded grooves(a rondel chisel but I am not sure)
If you plan to do any detail work, then you will likely want to use a rotary tool(Dremel or similar) to speed the process.
The book suggested by Artistic programmer is likely a decent choice, Milt Liebson also has a video by the same name(I think) that was available from my public library(VHS) check that out.
Liebson is a direct carver, this means he usually starts a sculpture with little to no pre-design this works for some, not for others. Classically, sculptors would build clay or plaster maquettes(models) and then work the design into the stone. Personally, I do a little of both types of carving, often starting with a nebulous image, and refining it based on what I find in the stone.
I would also recommend the following books:
Sculpture in Stone
Contemporary Stone Sculpture
Last but not least for the love of all that you hold dear be concious of the health hazards!!! Wear a dust mask, some stones contain asbestos, or silica or other harmful minerals. work in a well ventilated space, and wear safety goggles.
TL:DR Carving is awesome, check the books, break the rules and WEAR THE DAMN SAFETY EQUIPMENT!!!
I think you're joking, but let me answer seriously. There are not diagrams for most advanced original origami nor will there be. Diagrams only exist up to a certain expert level (and there are more than enough of those) and beyond that point more complex designs are created and folded by advanced origami artists.
These folders are generally too busy with and interested in making new cool designs to go through the very different and extremely time consuming and laborious process of diagramming their work. :(
In fact, I would guess that someone who is a very good origami designer and a good diagrammer is a much greater rarity than someone who is one or the other. They are different skill sets.
At most you can find fold patterns sometimes (like the one in the photo referenced in another link in this thread), or a photo of an unfolded basic pattern. If you are experienced enough you can figure it out from the fold pattern.
I believe this was folded dry and then wet and shaped. The scale pattern was folded onto the appropriate areas of the paper before principal folding began.
Most of the techniques for designing a dragon like this (scales, claws, head) are provided in the book Origami Design Secrets: Mathematical Methods for an Ancient Art http://www.amazon.com/Origami-Design-Secrets-Mathematical-Methods/dp/1568811942/
I've folded a lot of nice dragons that are not nearly this complicated. I'll tell you what would be the biggest pain is folding all the scales. The rest of it would of course be insanely complex as well, I don't think I'd attempt something like that myself.
Edit: Here's a picture of a much simpler chinese-style dragon design with diagrams available in a popular origami book that you should be able to get a hold of by John Montroll: http://www.giladorigami.com/File.php?File=P_DragonC_Montroll.JPG
Once you fold this body, you can lightly wet it and curve it and round the body out to make it look cooler. The book is "Mythological Creatures and the Chinese Zodiac in Origami" by John Montroll
I have designed some of my own! To give a sampling, in increasing order of complexity (with diagrams!),
My favorite origami book is John Montroll's Animal Origami for the Enthusiast, which starts out with simple, charming models and builds up to complex masterpieces like this lobster. It's one you can go back to for years. (I still have my childhood copy, inscribed "Merry Christmas 1988, Love Mom and Dad.")
Another lovely volume, though not an ideal first book, is one called Origami for the Connoisseur. One of its highlights is an exquisitely beautiful seashell model. Here's someone folding it on YouTube.
If you're curious about modular origami, Tomoko Fuse is a master of the field. This book ("Unit Origami: Multidimensional Transformations") is a hefty omnibus with plenty of lovely designs. Fuse tends toward a bit more surface elaboration and fussy preciseness than I go for these days, but her work is absolutely worth recreating with your own fingertips.
Most of all, I'd encourage you to just try things out and have fun. There's action origami that does stuff (fancier versions of jumping frogs and fortunetellers), there's a big "tessellation" scene, where people fold intricate, two-dimensional patterns, there are flowers and franchises and figures. Any decent bookstore will have a papercraft section with an origami book or two. Libraries should have plenty of volumes available.
Enjoy!
Look for John Montroll's books on origami. His designs are fairly difficult, but also well detailed and easy to follow (for the most part.) Just pick up one of his books and dig in. The first few designs will be tough, but you'll pick up the skills pretty fast. That's how I started and now I'm making dragons and dinosaurs like a boss.
For a dragon, I'd check out Mythological Creatures and the Chinese Zodiac in Origami, but my personal favorite is Prehistoric Origami.
Hope that helps. And happy folding! :)
Thank you for that. That book is perfect for anyone who wants to learn about origami. It's really more of a textbook with expanded explanations about the science of origami so I'd say yes indeed, read it cover to cover and make everything in it and you'll be an origami ninja in no time. Granted some of the folds are pretty hard core, Lang loves to put open and closed sinks in the most difficult places.
For those with little origami experience, I always recommend Origami Omnibus. It explains some of the math/geometry and has a taste of everything from Modular to animals to adam and eve in the back of the book. Great beginners book with some fun models too. Like most others it gets more difficult as you progress so it's a great book to learn with.
Happy folding and post your pics, we'd love to see what you make.
There's a lot out there and it depends what sort of puzzles you want to make.
My favorites are the Burr Puzzles, especially the modern variants that have proliferated in the 21st century
Ishino's Site has hundreds of such designs - I believe the point of the site is that they are free for personal use - finding the simpler designs will be the hard part, but you can search by shape to keep things simpler. Designers to check out: Osamori Yamamoto, Gregory Benedetti, Jos Bergmans, Bill Cutler, Stephan Chomine, William Hu, Tom Jolly, Jeff Namkung....loads more, but I think all of these guys have a few relatively simple designs that are still worthwhile puzzles
Brian Menold's book has some great designs with step-by-step instructions. Little Kenny and Bundle of Sticks Jr. from this book are quite nice.
There's also the Charlie Self, Tom Lensch book
There are also the older books by E. M. Wyatt and Stewart Coffin that have puzzle designs like basic 6-piece burrs
Woodworking sites and magazines often have articles on puzzle-making
If you're more interested in making other types of puzzle, I'm sure you can find plenty of things on the web
http://www.amazon.com/North-American-Animals-Origami-Montroll/dp/0486286673/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1311232032&sr=8-1 has a very nice deer. John Montroll books are great for starting out and have a great range of complexity with nice looking results even for the easy models.
The butterflies are all by Michael J. LaFosse. I got the patterns from here and here.
The boxes are by Tomoko Fuse. I have a slew of her books. This one is decent for beginners. This one is ideal for beginners but, alas, is out of print.
The other tiny things are by Meenakshi Mukerji and are from this book. She has a fabulous website with an absolute wealth of pictures, info, and diagrams for modular and geometric models. And if you check out her guest gallery, well gee, doesn't that second group of photos look familiar? ;-)
Yours is a technical question. I don't about online tutorials, but I can recommend the excellent book titled Sculpture as Experience. It will give you a strong foundation of different sculptural materials and methods.
Thank you. I love the book a lot as well. Although my personal favorite will always be Kunihiko Kasahara's Origami Omnibus. https://www.amazon.com/Origami-Omnibus-Paper-Folding-Everybody/dp/4817090014 I folded things from this for well over a decade when I was a kid.
Great Job..
Now you are ready for bigger more complex models using different modules
Rotunda-Drilled Truncated Icosidodecahedron
Modular Origami Structures using the Sonobe Unit
The Following books will offer unlimited options for amazing structures
Tomoko Fuse Open Frame II modules
Unit Origami: Multidimensional Transformations-Tomoko Fuse
Unit Polyhedron Origami
Origami Omnibus- Kasahara
Erik Demaine, Robert Lang and Tom Hull have great ones. Also check out the OSME conference proceedings. These people are always happy to talk via email if you have any questions, but you will have to look them up.
Also I heard this one is good but I haven't seen it yet: Origamics: Mathematical Explorations through Paperfolding by Kazuo Haga, who I believe was one of the first to write academically about origami.
I just bought one of his books, in fact. Origami Design Secrets is basically the practical Origami theory book out there; it includes the optimization algorithms he uses to design bases, as well as several folding sequences for shaping flaps in bases into whatever you need. And a bunch of neat designs, like an intricately detailed Cuckoo clock folded from an uncut 10:1 rectangle of paper.
Try the book Origami Omnibus, by Kunihiko Kasahara.
This books is long and has lots of very cool designs. There's a nice dragon in there, and lots of other animals. It has both simple designs and complex ones, which makes it good for the beginner.
A metals class I took had this book on patinas. It’s basically a cookbook for patinas. Super informative if you’re interested in the chemistry behind different techniques.
The white guy at the end is John Gurche. He is the artist who made the figures seen in the video. This video was created as a promo for his book, Shaping Humanity about how art is used to help us understand human origins. The original video seen here was put out by Yale University Press. Someone then took it, removed the book promos and reposted it.
This seems like a good place to put this . . .
This book has a lot of information, tests, and recipes:
http://www.amazon.com/Patina-Coloration-Effects-Jewelers-Metalsmiths/dp/162033139X
My favorite origami books are:
Origami for the Connoisseur https://www.amazon.com/dp/4817090022/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_X5GGzb0NC14YA
and
Genuine Origami: 43 Mathematically-Based Models, From Simple to Complex https://www.amazon.com/dp/4889962514/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_L7GGzb1H9N4SY
Both books are well written and cover a wide range of designs (both in content and in skill level). The harder models in genuine will take hours to fold.
His name is Dan Reeder. He has several books available on making "Screamers" - 1, 2, 3, and a couple more. His website can be found here. He's even a redditor and has popped up in a few threads. I posted something about how much of an impact his books had on me growing up and he replied to my post. Nice guy.
I walked the same path. Forget everything you know.
Introducing Zbrush was a good place to start learning how to use it.
Youtube have tutorials on almost anything that you would like to learn.
some good books you can use for figurative sculpting:
https://www.amazon.com/Portrait-Sculpting-Anatomy-Expressions-Clay/dp/0975506501/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1540671406&sr=8-1&keywords=phillipe+faraut
https://www.amazon.com/Clay-Bronze-Studio-Figurative-Sculpture/dp/0823006387/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1540671453&sr=8-1&keywords=tuck+langland
https://www.amazon.com/Beginners-Guide-Sculpting-Characters-Clay/dp/1909414409/ref=sr_1_4?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1540671519&sr=1-4&keywords=figure+sculpting
A friend taught me this one in person and I couldn't find the instructions anywhere online. He got it from this book:
[https://www.amazon.com/Modular-Origami-Polyhedra-Revised-Enlarged/dp/0486404765/ref=pd_sim_14_2?_encoding=UTF8&pd_rd_i=0486404765&pd_rd_r=WPGRRY91QAVPKH4PH5Q7&pd_rd_w=b3G8C&pd_rd_wg=39Bl7&psc=1&refRID=WPGRRY91QAVPKH4PH5Q7]
I saw this while browsing around on flickr. I thought it looked really cool so I wanted to make one myself!
The original creator published his digrams here, but I used this video to learn how to make the units.
The bookshelf and a couple of book designs came from the book Origami Omnibus. Over the years I sought out other models of books on the internet and in other books.
This and this.
I've been meaning to check out these books which claim to be about that exact topic: Origami^3, Origami^4 and Origami^5. They are a conferance about mathematics and Origami, with the books put together by Thomas Hull. There is most likely also an Origami^1 and Origami^2, but I am unable to find them for sale anywhere.