HACIENDO RETRATO EN RELIEVE

Hi, friends, I'm Vieri and this is Vieri Art. In today's video I wanted to talk to you about answering some questions about drywall art. And how I started doing this kind of technique. All this while playing a video in the background of a A relief portrait I made for a doctor. In this video you can see how I start with a drawing. I used a projector. So I plug the projector into my cell phone and And I project the photo onto the panel, then I draw the picture. And this makes it so much easier. So, that saves me a lot of time on I think it's a good idea because Sometimes if you take too long to do something you can get frustrated. So I usually like to be quick. And this is a tool that I use a lot to make my sculptures. So I don't waste a lot of time on the drawing and I can quickly start shaping it. Maybe people think it's cheating, but it's not. As long as you have a tool that can make your job easier And to do it faster or better, you have to use that tool. The rest is practical, if you want to draw a picture with your hand up. Then it's pretty much your practice. Practice and you can do things better. I learned the drywall art technique on the Internet. There's a video I think was taken five years ago, six years ago, I think. from a person named Bernie Mitchell. He lives in Canada, so he worked in drywall And he decided to make his joint compound mixture He was so excited to see the pictures. It's on YouTube if you want to see it. I really liked that technique then. I tried to look up some tutorials or something on the Internet to see what materials he used. But I didn't find anything. After a while I found a video tutorial that was paid for on the internet. But it didn't really give any relevant information. So I decided to learn by myself by trial and error. So I started out like this, knowing nothing, and I took a chance. I got a client, I told him I could make these sculptures And what I could do on his wall, so he said yes and I went to do it. So making a sculpture, a project like that, I learned. I was late for my first sculpture, you can see it on my YouTube. It's the first video I ever made about drywall art. And it took me, I think, a month or a little bit longer. But it was really hard for me because I didn't know anything about the technique. So I had to test materials, fail some materials, make it again, break it and make it again. It was a little difficult. The video is not very long either, it's two minutes long. It was just a time lapse. I was taking pictures of the whole process, I made a really quick video and put it up there. That's how I started doing this technique. It's practically trial and error. Another question is about time. How long does it take me to make a sculpture? That depends on the subject of the sculpture or whether it's a human figure or portraits. Usually portraits are the hardest part and take me a long time. For example, this video we're watching is a portrait of a doctor. So it's not very big but it's really hard to capture the essence of this person. To take a 2D photo that accurately shows a relief is a little difficult. But that's how you learn by practicing. For this sculpture, it took me two weeks working full-time. It'll be about 80 hours maybe. What gives this sculpture its most important characteristics It's not much the shape itself. If it isn't the way it's painted. After the video, you'll see what I mean. Because in this sculpture the shape doesn't look very similar to the subject. But when I paint it, it starts to look a lot more like it. Then for this sculpture about two weeks, maybe about 80 hours. For the first sculpture I made I took a month, a little more. But there's another sculpture that took me three months. The sculpture of Luisito Comunica. At that time, the quarantine for the coronavirus began. Then I decided to do something more, more three-dimensional. Then I made the sculpture of Luisito Comunica that was 3 months. You liked Luisito. Then I sent that sculpture to Mexico and now he's got it. And making the sculpture of Luisito I discovered something that I don't like much about this technique. Yes, the material I use is similar to that. So that means it's heavy and it's fragile. So when I sent Luisito's sculpture to Mexico, the sculpture broke. Then no is something cool. It can be arranged but if you have a customer who expects something and it comes broken, then no peg. And I still have to find ways to solve this. He's been doing a lot of experiments, putting on cola blanca, paper, they call it cellulose. Then I'm still in it. I always try to do experiments since there's no tutorial. I put a tutorial on YouTube, it's very fast, I speak English. In that video you can see that I'm not very good in English. It's because the videos I upload, most of them, even 90% of people speak English. I wanted to make a tutorial for those people, so that's why I did it in English. But it's very difficult for me to speak in this language. But I think it's better to start making videos in Spanish since it's my native language. I feel very good talking and I can talk more and pass on more advice. And more knowledge and maybe I'll translate them. Maybe use subtitles in the videos so more people can learn. Yeah, there's almost no tutorials on YouTube. It's not a popular or very well-known technique. But maybe we can create a community of drywall art. And we can do this with many people, make many sculptures. I don't know if you like this idea, let me know in the comments. Tell me if you like the portrait, now I've used more colors. You look more like a doctor. The doctor's name is Andrew. With the colors you look a little more. With the shadows, todo. That's what characterizes a face, the shadows are everything. I put varnish in his eyes. It gives a more realistic effect. I like to sign the sculptures with my logo and cover them with gold pan. It's cool, it's more professional. I hope this person, Dr. Andrew, likes this sculpture. It really cost me a lot of work. It's a little hard to make them look like people. And I hope you liked it too. I hope you'll reply to me in the comments if you want to see more videos like this, I'm talking to you and I'm showing you a video. If you want me to do more tutorials. If you want me to do an online course. Or if you have any questions or suggestions for making better videos. I'm here to listen to you, I promise I'll read all the comments. And I think that's all. Thank you for listening to me, thank you for watching this video. And I hope to see you in the next video. Thank you!