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This project began because I wanted to test my skills in creating musculature. I choose a non-descript figure with little facial hair so I could
focus directly on the muscle structures.
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Here is the basic wire structure, a 14-gauge steel wire, joints tied together with copper wire, (seen at right shoulder), and then covered with a cheaper grade of polymer clay to immobilize the joints.
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After baking the under-clay, the sculpture is covered with aluminum foil to bulk it up. I use cheap polymer clay as supports during the construction process.
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At this point the real stuff (Super Sculpey) is added, I leave hollows for the eye sockets.
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More bulking and detail work. The eyeballs are white Sculpey III pre-baked so they would hold their round form. Sculpey can be baked multiple
times without severe consequence.
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Detail work and removal of support structures.
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First bake and sanding
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Added clothing, put through second bake. I was almost done painting him when I knocked him over and lost part of his mohawk.
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The broken piece was lost somewhere among a mass of boxes in the studio corner, so I had to do a repair job with fresh sculpey. Since the sculpture was already painted, I couldn't put him through another bake. I removed the raw sculpey fix, baked it, then glued it on.
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Finally completed!
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