SCULPTURE TECNIQUES

TEXTURES & FORMS

Tools and materials:

Rubber square tool is very useful for numerous tasks
Dental tools with spoon end
Use glue to strengthen your tools
Dog brush great for forehead detail and neck detail, leaves a beautiful texture of skin
The rake tool is useful for textures especially skin textures
The black textured sponge removes any loose bits of clay
You can also use a brush and alcohol
He deepens the wrinkles with another finer loop tool
Use cross hatches by making your lines in a completely different direction
Keep it natural and organic
This technique works for wed and chavant clay
Gives the image of ‘little islands’ by joining up the lines
To intensify- go into tiny sections of the technique ‘power of the X’
Cut out sections inside the island, this gives ‘weight’ to the skin (picking some spots randomly) and smooth over with the sponge

Adjusting the light for your sculpture

Be aware of the anatomy
Rolls out pieces to make basic shapes
Reference is needed for everything you do
Check the shadows you are creating
The rubber tip tool refines and shapes. This helps to create the eye to become symmetrical and even
Smooth wrinkles- The rubber tool is great for making a trenched line, opposed to a deep line and softening it yourself. This will save you a lot of time

When the skin is offended and the wound happens, the body wants to immediately heal itself. This means the skin will begin to curl in. It is only when the skin is immediately cut will it be very open
With the round end of the tool, run parallel around the wound
Burnish around this trench
Burnish towards the wound and away- this creates the illusion of shadow. The skin is starting to pucker in response to being open
You can randomly take areas around this to deepen even more
The middle section can be cut up which will be the fat
The deeper the lines the better creation of depth
He takes a horse shoe shaped piece of clay, smoothes it over the end of the wound. This is to create where the weapon first impacted the skin
The rubber tool will calm down areas of the edges

Adding the stiches

Uses a cake ball tool to push the skin towards the wound
Pushes into the hole and drags on the way out
Makes the stitch from clay, drag and pull at the bottom so that it creates a shadow
Nip tuck- reference for stitches

Doing the veins with sausages of clay is going to be problematic as you have too much weight to remove
They need to be more subtle than you think
He lays down the sausage and pinches it out
First thing you want to do is take mass out of this
Be brutal and cut a lot of mass out
Keep repeating the process
You can use you saw blade to remove the tops
Keep repeating the process taking out the sides
Choose some areas and almost take it down to nothing
Even if you lose a section, your imagination fills it in, so although it looks like it is diving down tin to the skin
He adds a couple of drops of clay away from the vein to give the illusion of the vein popping down into the skin and back up
Brush over with rounded tool, blend the edges and smoothed out
Go over with sponge in a circular motion

Separate pieces for more room to move
Very thin areas so you cannot see the edges
Constantly probe the makeup, to ensure the correct thickness. For a transfer makeup you want it very thin
Sculpt the effects to show the effect of time, very subtle
The eye lid will create a really natural effect
Brushes water over to take off the big pieces without ruining what's underneath
Then alcohol is used with a stipple sponge to take the edge off, and evens it out
Repeats the processes 2-3times
Texturing, there's a big difference between man and woman

Floating the clay: piece needs to sit there for a few hours, cold water to keep the clay stiff
Use a very thin spatula to peel away, looking for the shapes and the depth of the clay
Flattening and cleaning up the edges
Heat them up so that you can work with them
Alcohol to break the surface of the clay
Gently flatten it out
Lay down all your pieces in accordance to where they were before
Try not to loose any of the depth of the clay -flatten with a sponge
Filling in the lost edges -use the reference image -pencil in where the edges were before
Fill in the lines to the perimeter knowing they will be blended to nothing
Spray with water, water and alcohol stops the breaking down of the clay
Cross hatch with a tool
Use plastic to soften the marks, spray with water before to stop the plastic stick to the clay too much
Use a tool to create pores which helps to break up the cross hatch