What does a dolphin look like?

Dolphins basicly look like big grey fish, right? But I will be needing much more detailed information when I create my sculpture. So today I’ve been searching the local toy stores for a super realistic dolphin replica that I could use as reference. I found a couple and even bought one even though it wasn’t all that lifelike. Could still come in handy at some point, maybe as a gift for some ones forgotten birthday! Plastic dolphins make great gifts.

So for reference I’ll mostly be using pictures instead. From them I’ll build a 3d model to get the anatomy correct before starting to sculpt in polystyrene or some similar material.

So, next stop: Virtual Reality!