Monster Sculpting
As a child there was plasticine in the house but until yesterday my only experience with attempting to model anything in clay was forty-five years ago. I'm sure we were the only art class in our year that had been allowed near clay and with the work exploding in the kiln the teacher had neither the budget nor inclination to try again. A shame, but the reality of state education - just enough to give you a glimpse of something but not enough money or time for you to really try.
With my experiences of 3D printing, I decided to give a monster face sculpture course a go. Run over five hours Matt Lambert took us through the breaking down the structure of the face we intended to sculpt, preparing the wooden base board with packing, applying the oil-based clay, and then carving out the creature.
In his instructions Matt had suggested finding an image (or creating one) of a creature and then marking out the skull structure. Determined to find one that wasn't a werewolf (I'm sure my D&D group think that I have a thing about lycanthropes) I couldn't find an image that wasn't overly complicated or interested me. So, werewolf it was...
Ok, so early days and a duck emerges.
Left side taking shape.
The goofy right side.
Getting there.
Fifteen minutes left and howling.
I really enjoyed the experience and making something with my hands from start to "almost" finished was very fulfilling.
Fancy sculpting something fantastical then check out Matt's website, details of upcoming workshops can be found there as well as his work.
