Definitely. Techniques and specialized tools are essential depending on the medium being worked and clients’ requirements. But exceptional talent or greater can “right out of the box” reveal itself much earlier with more mundane materials, such as pencil and paper and simple modeling clay and any old household utensil or pointy/flat thingy to work clay. One example I personally know of: A gifted 10-year-old, first cousin (once-removed) on my mom’s side showed talent in both areas; pencil portraits of family members and 6" clay figurines that displayed stunning realism and maturity. Unfortunately for him, we’re not in the 16th century. So, he’s now a freelance digital artist. How else to make a living if one wishes to create for a living and there are no fabulously wealthy patrons of the arts out there wishing to be immortalized in marble.
Your cousin is probably one of the people who could produce a reasonably identifiable replica.
Years ago a group of three or four of friends and I used to play a game based on pictionary with plasticine to make a sculpture from a prompt card and the others had to guess the original (I think it was all of us creating at the same time with a 15 minute time limit, then a show and guess) some were more successful than others. A replica doesn’t have to be identical, just enough to be identified. With degrees of fidelity I would guess that a surprising percentage of people could produce something that vaguely resembled the original.
I wonder what the percentage would be if people were asked if they could drive an F1 car at a competitive speed over even a 1/10th race distance?
Spoiler alert: the correct answer is probably close to zero, but I find that most people think, “I can drive a car and I’ve tried a go-kart a few times, so how hard could it be?”
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