On the 14th of November, I had my second session of Figurative Modelling, for the whole day, I and my class were sculpting heads, first, we started with taking terracotta clay and building a circular wall to act as a base, then I started building up layers of clay, working my way up the head.
Once I built my way up to the chin I took a small piece of clay to act as support once the chin was in place, then I started building more upward to the face, for the nose I tore up small pieces of clay that helped form the shape.
(Note: During the process, we were encouraged not to make the surface of our heads too smooth as it would increase our chances of them collapsing)
While making my way to the top of the head (like what I did with the nose) I took small pieces of clay and started building my way up.
Once I sculpted the eyes, ears, lips and other facial features, I was finished and satisfied
(Note: the reason why I didn’t fill the head all the way to the top was both because there was a risk of it collapsing and also because I liked the way it looked).
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