SCULPTING 101 STEP BY STEP, 1/16 FIGURE

[garyjd]

More sculpey is added to the cheek bones and jaw.

 

[garyjd]

I now blend the Sculpey into the rest of the face.

 

[garyjd]

Attention is turned back to the area of the upper lip/mouth with the addition of more material.

 

[megroot]

Gary,

It is starting to look as a face. When are you smoothing the head, before or after baking??
When baking, at this stage or sculping a little further??

Marc

 

[garyjd]

Marc, I am only "blocking" or roughing in the features at this stage. I will start to smooth out the features as they are refined using my tools. The rest of the smoothing will be done with fine steel wool and fine sandpaper after baking. I will comment on all these steps as I progress through the process.~Gary

 

[garyjd]

Area blended.

 

[garyjd]

A piece of Sculpey for the lower lip/mouth is added.

 

[garyjd]

Section blended.

 

[garyjd]

A small ball of Sculpey is flattened a bit for the ball of the nose. Sorry for the dark photo.

 

[garyjd]

Ball of nose blended and a few small rolled out pieces are placed next to the sides of the nose and the front of the cheeks.

 

[garyjd]

Areas blended.

 

[garyjd]

Pieces that will make up the "wings" of the nose are added.

 

[garyjd]

Excess is trimmed off.

 

[garyjd]

Areas blended.

 

[TorMag]

Gary,

Thanks for this excellent SBS. You don't know how much you are helping us budding sculptors. I have one questions, how many times have you baked the head up to this point?

1. The inital ball.
2. Before you attach the nose piece

Any others?

Thanks

Tor

 

[gordy]

Gary, I like the technique you use for the mouth (many times you see the mouth more "2D" on the frontal plane and not realize how much the mouth area 'wraps' the head), i'll have to give that a try on my next head...

 

[garyjd]

Originally posted by TorMag@Oct 27 2005, 08:38 AM
I have one questions, how many times have you baked the head up to this point?

1. The inital ball.
2. Before you attach the nose piece

Tor

Tor, Thanks, I appreciate it. The first image on page 3 is baked and has gone through at least 2-3 sessions in the oven. The work done on top of this has not and probably will not be baked until the head is complete.~Gary

 

[garyjd]

Here I have added a couple small balls of Sculpey that when flattened and trimmed will give me a basic ear shape. Keep in mind when looking at the head in profile, the top of the ear should not go above the eyelid and the lobe of the ear should not go beyond the ball of the nose. Also note from the photo of the head from above it's important to position the ears at the same point on the head. Though we all have different shapes and sizes to our ears, position them accordingly.

 

[garyjd]

Ear shape after trimming.

 

[garyjd]

I use a pointed tool to make a C shaped line with a bit of a tail to it. This is done to indicate the inner and outer rim of the ear.