Rudy Grossman

Materials: Roma Plasticine. Details: I started by sketching out an imagined pose, and then referenced hundreds of photographs of dancers in various poses from various angles to visualize the imagined pose in three-dimensionsal space.

Materials: Roma Plasticine w/ plastic eyes. Details: Male Bust sculpted from a live model. From the "CounterPoint" 2009 Art Exhibit.

Materials: Roma Plasticine w/ plastic eyes. Details: Male Bust sculpted from a live model. From the "CounterPoint" 2009 Art Exhibit.

Materials: Roma Plasticine. Details: From a figure sculpting session with a live model.

Materials: Roma Plasticine. Details: Initially from a figure sculpting session with a live model, but decided to break out of the traditional pose a little.

Materials: Roma Plasticine. Details: There was no model for this sculpture. I started by sculpting a younger man, then re-sculpted him as a much older man to understand how wrinkles form and how gravity sags the looser skin in the face.

Materials: Roma Plasticine. Details: This was an anatomy study. I first sculpted the skeleton. Then on half the body, I sculpted every muscle, working from the interior layers to exterior layer.

Materials: Pencil on Paper. Details: This is not an original concept of mine. This study is my attempt to draw like the classic master Theodore Gericault.

Materials: Pencil on Paper. Details: This is not an original concept of mine. This study is my attempt to draw like the classic master Peter Rubens.

Materials: Pencil on Paper. Details: This is not an original concept of mine. This study is my attempt to draw like the classic master Michelangelo.

Materials: Pencil on Paper. Details: This drawing is inspired from a photo in magazine. It was sketched during a vacation, primarily while traveling on airplanes.

Materials: Polymer Clay w/ Acrylic Paint and a Protective Coating. Details: This Wedding Cake Topper was for a wedding in Cardiff Castle, Wales. The couple choose the pose and provided reference photographs of what they would be wearing on their big day.

Materials: Polymer Clay w/ Acrylic Paint and a Protective Coating. Details: This Wedding Cake Topper was for a wedding in Cardiff Castle, Wales. The couple choose the pose and provided reference photographs of what they would be wearing on their big day.

Materials: Pencil on Paper. Details: Portrait sketch.

Materials: Polymer Clay w/ Acrylic Paint and a Protective Coating. Details: Creature maquette shown in the "CounterPoint" 2009 Art Exhibit.

Materials: Polymer Clay w/ Acrylic Paint and a Protective Coating. Details: Creature maquette shown in the "CounterPoint" 2009 Art Exhibit.

Materials: Digital Illustration. Details: A Creature Concept Illustration from the "CounterPoint" 2009 Art Exhibit.

Materials: Pencil on Paper and Polymer Clay w/ Acrylic Paint. Details: Concept Illustration and Maquette Sculpture for the Draken species featured in the original sci-fi short story, "Rites of Passage: At The Edge of the Universe".

Materials: Digital Illustration. Details: A quick concept illustration prior to sculpting the "The "Rah'Yerán" maquette.

Materials: Polymer Clay w/ Acrylic Paint and a Protective Coating. Details: An original concept creature maquette shown at the “Rascal Art Event” exhibition.

Materials: Polymer Clay w/ Acrylic Paint and a Protective Coating. Details: An original concept creature maquette shown at the “Rascal Art Event” exhibition.

Materials: Polymer Clay w/ Acrylic Paint and a Protective Coating. Details: An original concept creature maquette shown at the “Rascal Art Event” exhibition.

Materials: Polymer Clay w/ Acrylic Paint and a Protective Coating. Details: An original concept creature maquette shown at the “Rascal Art Event” exhibition.