Head and Body Part 2

To recap....

Therefore, I now had to find a way of improving the head to make it smoother and to a better standard! I thought sanding the head would improve the look, however with such an uneven surface this did little to nothing. 

With that, I decided to cover the head with a thin layer of super sculpey. Although by doing this this meant the proportions of the head changed and the body did not look right therefore I needed to remove the clay from his back and had more to his front to get the silhouette for his body that I needed.

Tip of the Day! 

A good tip I have learnt from this course and projects, and also from researching the internet, is not to be precious about your sculpts or work. If something doesn't look right, don't be afraid to hack in to it, if you believe something better will come from it!

In my opinion making the move of, taking a chunk from his back and making him a bit bigger in front has improved him a lot, the deciosion of placing sculpey over the green head also was a good move as it has become a lot smoother even with a rough layer on top.

The eyebrow is also in place, however this was only sculpted on to help me visualise what the character will look like. This will be removed before baking, and plasticine will take it's place. Same goes for the 'Scarf'. I cut an end of a sock up to act as a make shift scarf, to again visualise what the end result would look like :)

I do not have any picture of the eye process :/ I really need to up my picture taking game on the next project! 

But I'll explain how i did them, they were simple really.

After sculpting in sculpey they were then baked hard in the oven. They then had a couple of coats of white primer to get, well, the white look. And finally they were sprayed in a clear gloss coat to give a shine to them.

After removing the sculpey eyebrow, I pushed little holes in to the gap for the brow, this was done for when I put the plasticine eyebrow on. The holes will help the plasticine hold on to the sculpey head.

The head was then baked and sanded smooth.

When the sculpey was baked and sanded big cracks had appeared in the head. 

I thought to add more sculpey within the cracks to fill them and then bake and sand smooth.

 However, another problem arised! 

Once the head and bake again, to harden the sculpey acting as a filler, the original sculpey head began to crack further, I sprayed a light mist of white primer to see how bad it was. 

Pretty bad it turned out!

So...

(Another) Tip of the Day!

Do not re-bake sculpey, it cracks!!

I now had to re-search around to find out, how I was going to fill these cracks. I then discovered a good filler for this is Milliput, therefore I started mixing some milliput and filling in the gaps, once this was dried i sanded smoother and the head was good to go!!

miliput also had to be added to the eye due to some damage but this was easily sanded down!

Head and body almost done!

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