Modelling with Clay

For the next assignment we were given the task of designing, planning and then finally creating a clay sculpture. I was very apprehensive about this task as i have never used clay before and had no experience sculpting.

I started off with an initial plan of a samurai and wanted to go down that sort of road with my sculpting  After finishing my design and getting it approved i then started to create a wire frame to get the pose of my character and proceeded to bulk that out with tinfoil.

Once i had got the basic shape of the character i then started to place a layer of clay onto the wire frame and shape it to the desired shape. After completing this task i was very disappointed with my overall sculpture due to the fact that i had bulked out the body too much with tinfoil so it began to show through when applying the clay and i could not get the eyes to look how i wanted them to.

All that aside i still continued to bake the character and then take pictures of the sculpture which dint look nearly as bad as i initially thought. Below is a picture of the front view of my finished sculpture;