Sculpture is a hands-on medium where students learn to recreate 3-dimensional objects with clay. They use multiple tools to mold the clay into shapes and forms such as a cat, dog, person, vehicle or even a flower. These tools help you transform the clay into the image you are working from. When first approaching sculpting, students use a 3-dimensional object as a guide to understand what all sides of the object should look like. Once you have sufficient experience in recreating existing 3D objects in sculpting, you can move onto doing more difficult projects like dragons or using a picture as your reference. Creating a 3D object from a 2-dimensional picture is more difficult as you can’t see all sides of the object.
Sculpture can be done at any juncture in their artistic journey. There is no best time for it as it is significantly different from drawing and painting.