Sculpting Practice: Dicks (Patreon)

I spent a little bit of time practicing dick sculpting, but I didn't really set any goals.  Though I had done plenty of sculpting in that area before, I never did it from scratch, so I wanted to see if I was capable.

And... yeah no surprise here.  Working with dick models a bunch in the past probably helped, but I can still put together one pretty easily.  It's much less anatomically complex and open for stylization compared to other parts of the body, even the breasts.

It's interesting that artists will get a lot of criticism for getting parts of the vagina wrong, but they can make obvious mistakes when it comes to the dick and no one really bats an eye.  I wonder if it's truly an anatomy problem or a social blind spot.  Perhaps dicks are much more historically stylized so it's baked into our expectations.

At a glance, any dick criticisms amount to scale: too big or too small.  But vaginas operate on multiple different axis: shape, proportion, texture.  When's the last time you've heard someone critique the inaccuracies of a dick's frenulum?  Perhaps these criticisms are observed but not verbalized, as opposed to the genitalia of the opposite sex.

Above are all the quick dick sculpts I did for practice.  Perhaps I'll try doing some more realistic sculpts but for the time being I'm not very concerned about it.  What I might do instead is focus on the micro detail with a higher poly-count sculpt or in Substance Painter.  It could be a good jumping-off point for detailing other parts of the body and I don't want to get too attached to that Urgarulga model.