This video shows how to sculpt a portrait bust using air dry clay and a wire armature.
- 1 min. video (wire armature supplies)
- 1 min. short (head armature 1: start)
- 1 min. short (head armature 2: head)
- 1 min. short (head armature 3: neck)
- 1 min. short (head armature 4: base)
- 1 min. short (head armature 5: base)
- 4 min. video (head armature 1-5)
- 31 min. video (tutorial)
- 47 min. video (skull tutorial)
- 26 min. video (figure tutorial)
- Armatures playlist
- Figure modeling playlist
Techniques for how to build a wire armature, and how to block in the largest shapes in the portrait sculpture are explained thoroughly.
Sculpting techniques using a range of sculpting tools, and how to sculpt details, and the advantages and disadvantages of using air dry clay are all addressed.
Demo led by Art Prof Clara Lieu & Guest Teaching Artist Annelise Yee.
Video Walkthrough
- Challenges of scupting heads
- Proportion measurements
- Armature wire
- Attaching the armature
- Armature “butterfly”
- Styrofoam in the armature
- Air dry terracotta clay
- Packing the clay
- Anatomical structure of the head.
- Sculpting the neck
- Building the shoulders
- Nose & Mouth relationship
- Sculpting hair
- Wrapping the sculpture
- Dry time & air dry clay
Reference Photos
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