I listen to a lot of music and I play it for fun.
I like to paint, currently I am fascinated with the Sumi-e style.
I have come to the point that I like and enjoy the art.
Sculpture is one thing that I have no understanding of. Music has its structure in nodes and beats. Painting has its shade and point of view. Sculpture I don’t understand. Any advice?
What kind of material do you have in mind? Ceramic? Wood? Stone? Ice? Casting? Wire? Found object?
Not that I could answer your question, but narrowing the medium down a bit might prove helpful because the medium dictates what you can do with it.
if someone could answere that
it wouldnt be art anymore
it would be only craftsmenship
just look at sculpture
just create sculpture
if it gives something to you, go ahead
if not, let it be
I once saw something like this… (I think it was in Versailles) and I started to see what sculpture could be.
There’s also some pretty incredible stuff in the Musee D’orsay that does neat things with colored marble (so it’s not so monochromatic). But the best I can do is to say that where paintings use color to cause certain visual effects, sculpture works in the medium of texture. The way light will be scattered by the texture and angle of each surface is the base of your perception of the piece. The beauty of this (and sadness, if you’re only looking at pictures of sculpture) is that you must experience a piece first-hand from multiple angles to really appreciate it.
One of the things that really draws us to art, I think, is the way the artist works inside and also fights against the structure of his medium. In sculpture the artist is limited to the stone he has access to, or the laws of physics that want to keep a structure from standing, or the amount of pitch available on his 3D printer, or what junk he’s able to find in the junkyard that day…
and enjoyment can be taken from the ways the artist found to deal with that and still achieve a certain effect.
Rodin did some amazing nudes that look incredibly lifelike (I think nudes are more convincing since people are pretty monochromatic in their Birthday suits).
I really don’t think that is what I am looking for. ITM can be played on various instruments. One can draw from an oil, pastel, charcoal, watercolor background and still know perspective. What I think I am missing is the fundamentals of three denominational form, not the medium.
I say just give it a shot. Small-scale woodcarving is a great place to start, and you can learn how that in doing sculpture, you find the space the sculpture occupies.
Those white marble pieces are breathtaking ! Such detail !
How about clay to start ? If you don’t like what you’ve made, simply mash it up and try again !
Also good. And modeling clay is economical because it doesn’t dry out.
If you’re really serious about getting into sculpture, I’d suggest finding a teacher.
I just noticed that she has on pearls under her clothing. Amazing.
Filling space.
Inside the box and/or outside the box… just fill it. 
Both in the chapel of San Severo in Naples. Absolutely stunning.
Then again, if you’ve ever seen Michaelangelo’s David in the flesh, so to speak, I think you’d suddenly understand sculpture. That is one of only three (I think) artworks that have literally taken my breath away. To the extent that I’ve come up for air after a while, gasping for breath. The other two, out of interest, are Botticelli’s Primavera and the roof of the Sistine Chapel - so two out of three for the same artist!
I don’t quite see what’s so stunning about the roof. 
Hmmm …
Anyway, I see that the OP’s question was perhaps ambiguous. Or our interpretation, at any rate. Some answers, like my own, have tended towards appreciation of sculpture, and some, like Nano’s, towards doing it, and the achievement of having done it.
Which were you thinking of, I.D.10-t? Both?
I guess I am more interested in technique and form. Perhaps it is as simple as just doing it as I seem to appreciate art better when I know what goes into it. I can throw stuff on the potters wheel, but in that case function precedes form. heck the one sculpture that I found fascinating on this thread was the one with the fishing net as I have done that knot work and am really impressed that it was carved in a recognizable way.
Part of it is also style. I was looking for a minimalist style like Sumi-e art and didn’t even know which branch of sculpture would come close to that.
Basically I realized I have no understanding of sculpture’s basics. For example, what is the cross hatching of sculpture?
I would suggest that you’re asking the wrong question. Sculpture being by definition 3D, light and shadow are already built into it. Crosshatching is just a 2D technique that seeks to emulate, on a flat surface, the appearance of what we might see of light and shadow already naturally inherent in a 3D object. It creates an illusion, you could say. OTOH, for the 3D to emulate the 2D, the best you could do would be to have a featureless flat slab. Also an illusion.
Now texture is another matter, and there’s scads of choices for that. Whether smooth or crude, texture is a way of working with light and shadow for effect. But it’s not a matter of basics in the manner of crosshatching as such, although rough texture can in turn almost emulate crosshatching, if that’s the effect you want to present.
Probably, but it did solicit a good answer.
In this way sculpture is still a 2D thing though, one needs to stick with one material and make its skin cover it.
I think I see what you’re saying, although in this case I would have to disagree in the end, because we cannot visually know physical texture without light and shadow, which, circularly, texture gives us in turn. So you’re still in the 3D – only with texture, it’s expressed at a comparatively more minute, general surface level.
Ahem.. did you mean “elicit” ?
(My cavil for the day)
