Because Thod is a stereotypical barbaric character, the first thing that springs to mind is a huge muscular figure like that of the classic Conan the barbarian, so I needed something to refer to on muscle structure, as this was an area I hadn't explored at all in my entire art education. From John's Armature workshop, he strongly recommended 'Grey's Anatomy' book which is a medical book, however it contains many illustrations of muscles that make it extremely handy for the artist aswell. I found the book very useful, and with it I pieced together the muscle structure for Thod with the sketc shown. However the book isn't perfect, as it doesn't contain some area's of anatomy and doesn't continue just a solid full image of the entire human body which I will have to look elsewhere to get.
But from the sketch I began making the armature, perfectly to scale with the sketch at a 2:3 scale (the armature being 1.5x bigger than the sketch). So I made the wire, drilled the board, anchored it with fibre glass and began applying clay. However along the way, it was to my horror I realised that the legs on the sketch and then of course the armature where slightly dis-proportionate. I'm attempting to fix this within the armature by bulking out and stretching the legs slightly, but it's my first shot at drawing AND sculpting the human anatomy, so I guess I can't begin perfectly.
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