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offcntrYesterday was a struggle. After building the head, one piece at a time, I couldn't get it right. Cut the front of the face off twice to rebuild, put on the muzzle, then cut the whole head off and shortened the neck an inch. And it still didn't look right.
I finally put on the ears, threw plastic on it, and called it good. But I also wedged up some more clay and rolled out an extra slab, just in case.
Today I came back rested, and with new eyes, and realized that, though the cranium was all right, the face was still too long, and the muzzle way oversized. I cut the whole face off, shortened it by half an inch, paddled new slab into place and sculpted a smaller, correctly tapered muzzle. The last thing I did was trim a half inch off the circumference of the ears, reshape and roll the edge. And I think I've got it right, finally.
Sorry for the dearth of process photos. As I got more and more stressed, I forgot to take pictures, and by the end of the day, I just wasn't happy with what I'd finished. (Hence the radical face-ectomy today.) I'm much happier with today's progress; think I'm gonna clean up the studio and do some simple, repetitive production throwing tomorrow.
The end?
I finally put on the ears, threw plastic on it, and called it good. But I also wedged up some more clay and rolled out an extra slab, just in case.
Today I came back rested, and with new eyes, and realized that, though the cranium was all right, the face was still too long, and the muzzle way oversized. I cut the whole face off, shortened it by half an inch, paddled new slab into place and sculpted a smaller, correctly tapered muzzle. The last thing I did was trim a half inch off the circumference of the ears, reshape and roll the edge. And I think I've got it right, finally.
Sorry for the dearth of process photos. As I got more and more stressed, I forgot to take pictures, and by the end of the day, I just wasn't happy with what I'd finished. (Hence the radical face-ectomy today.) I'm much happier with today's progress; think I'm gonna clean up the studio and do some simple, repetitive production throwing tomorrow.
The end?