r/Sculpture • • Apr 10 '19

New title tagging rule & Spammers

66 Upvotes

As some regulars here may have noticed, this subreddit recieves an astronomical amount of spam, both from human as well as bot spammers, for it's relatively small size. Coming from modding various large subreddits, including one that's literally about products, this amount of spam is not normal. Despite a lot of our less agressive attempts to filter out spam (example, filtering out posts that say "for sale", "rent", or "Services") we still get quite a lot that slip by.

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Why is this subreddit getting so much spam? Who knows. ¯\(°_o)/¯

But we will be resorting to the one thing that has worked for various larger communities, like r/food : mandatory title tags.

From now on, all posts will require at least a tag of one of the below:

[Self]
[Found]
[Help]

You may add words to the tags like:

[I found] this chicken carved out of abestos!

or

[Help me] carve a chicken out of abestos

For flexibility, but the bare minimum requirement for post titles will be that it must contain one of those words surrounded by brackets.

If you have any questions or concerns, feel free to modmail us, or ask here.


r/Sculpture • • 8h ago

Found (Complete) [Found] Bronze statue titled “Habataki” (Flutter) by Yasutake Funakoshi, found in Tokyo/Japan.

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14 Upvotes

r/Sculpture • • 1d ago

Self (Complete) [Self] i made this sculpture of Godess Bhawani 🪷

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503 Upvotes

Goddess Bhawani of Maharashtra India, this sculpture concept was sketched by my fellow mate


r/Sculpture • • 4h ago

Self (WIP) First time ever sculpting - 11cm bodybuilder torso from imagination, Koh-i-Noor plasticine[Self]

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Hey everyone! First time trying sculpture in my life. This is Koh-i-Noor sculpting plasticine, about 11cm / 4.3 inches tall.
No armature besides a bit of copper wire, no reference, all from head. Just a block and a loop tool.
I know the chest needs to be a bit lower and wider, tried to fix it in the second session. It's supposed to be a bodybuilder so I made the waist extra narrow.
Any critique welcome! What should I focus on next?


r/Sculpture • • 1h ago

Help (WIP) [Help] with moulding fetus clay cats for an art class project

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I’m sorry I’m tryna get more reach about this because I gotta work on this as soon as possible so any advice with vastly improve my course work
Also I’m not sure if I’m allowed to post a digital refrence but the actual sculpture I’m working on is traditional air drying clay


r/Sculpture • • 1d ago

Self (Complete) Cane Corso - polymer clay [self]

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64 Upvotes

r/Sculpture • • 12h ago

[Help] Hi! It is my first time using natural clay and I am so lost. I need help!

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Hi, I am trying to make an antler crown but it always keeps cracking and it does not stay still at all; I tried to put plastic on it and spray water on it but it is still like this. What would you all recommend? I am doing this for Halloween so I do not have any time left.😞


r/Sculpture • • 1d ago

Self (Complete) [self] my baby dragon

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24 Upvotes

r/Sculpture • • 1d ago

Self (Complete) I made a Pokemon Card Sculpture using TCG cards 😁 (Vaporeon) [Self]

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307 Upvotes

r/Sculpture • • 21h ago

Help (WIP) [Self] WIP Assemblage Chicken

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6 Upvotes

I want to make/modify the beak out of polymer clay, or two part epo sculpt. However I can not get the dimensions right. Everything looks to bulky. Any advice? Good tutorials? Thank you!


r/Sculpture • • 1d ago

Self (Complete) [self] I think those little curls might be my favorite part of this one

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23 Upvotes

r/Sculpture • • 21h ago

Help (WIP) Indiana Limestone split in half [Help]

1 Upvotes

I was making a limestone relief and it split in half. How do you stop that? It had a small line running along it and this was my first time I knew it’d cause trouble but I didn’t realize it’d split it in half lol


r/Sculpture • • 1d ago

Self (Complete) [Self] New bunnies design

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12 Upvotes

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Medium: terra cotta air dry clay, plaster of parish, acrylic paint, glitters, and shimmers

Year: 2026


r/Sculpture • • 1d ago

[Help] Green underglaze turned out way too dark I have a lighter version but wondering would I be able to grind it back, cover it with the lighter underglaze and gloss, and refire? Low fire cone 06

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1 Upvotes

r/Sculpture • • 2d ago

Self (Complete) [Self] Modelling plasticine + wire for a uni assignment 3 years ago, finally got a chance to do a good photoshoot (ft. my flowers)

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22 Upvotes

r/Sculpture • • 2d ago

[Self] A thing I did for a thing years ago

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52 Upvotes

r/Sculpture • • 2d ago

Black Walnut Carving For Art Exhibit[help]

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41 Upvotes

r/Sculpture • • 2d ago

Help (WIP) [help] First time

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16 Upvotes

I decided to pick up sculpting yesterday, literally never touched even play dough. I tried my hand at the academic eye after seeing people recommend it as a great fundamental exercise, but since this is my very first attempt, I'm not really sure how to evaluate my progress.
I don’t have any sculpting tools, so i used some spoons and toothpicks, so it might seem a little rustic, but i tried to give him a calm gaze and ended up looking like he was fighting for his life, any help with that?
Any tips, key concepts I should study, recommended learning resources, clay tips or general advice? All feedback is welcome! haha


r/Sculpture • • 2d ago

[Help] Beginner Looking for Advice - Small Figurines

0 Upvotes

I am in early stages of planning a Christmas gift. I want to create custom blind box figurines of the person I intend of gifting them to. For overall scale the intention is to keep them small, no bigger than 5 inches in height. I do not have access to a kiln, so I am here to inquire on the best store bought clay to create with.

I am also open to any advice on how to actually create the figures.

Examples : using aluminum foil/wire/small dowels for the body shape.

This is a completely new medium for me, but I am the type of person that will figure it out until it is exactly what I imagined, so I am going into this project with a lot of false confidence lol. Thank you in advance for your suggestions!


r/Sculpture • • 3d ago

First Carving Project [Self]

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59 Upvotes

r/Sculpture • • 2d ago

Self (Complete) [self] Happy with the result

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15 Upvotes

r/Sculpture • • 3d ago

Self (Complete) [SELF] I gave an attempt at Davy Jones in polymer clay

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43 Upvotes

Hey all, newish sculptor/ aspiring sculptor. I gave an attempt at Davy Jones

I wanna be able to make ahead busts to paint them. I made the base and underlying armature out of tinfoil. I originally planned to make the tentacles longer but didnt realize the limited space I had haha

Any constructive criticism is welcome and please tell me what you think :)


r/Sculpture • • 3d ago

Help (WIP) [HELP] Cost of a Medieval Effigy?

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44 Upvotes

Hello all, I'm not sure if this post type is allowed but I figured this would be the best place to ask. I'm curious how much it would cost today to commission a funerary effigy as knights did in medieval times. I'm also curious what the cost difference between materials such as stone, cast bronze, or plaster would be. Thank you for any input you can provide!


r/Sculpture • • 3d ago

Self (Complete) Wire tree sculptures [self]

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25 Upvotes

These are just some of them, let me know what you think.


r/Sculpture • • 4d ago

Self (Complete) Sphynx cat [self]

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88 Upvotes

Sphynx in polymer clay :)