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How To Make A Dogs Head
How To Make A Dogs Head
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Author:1artsysoul Artsy Soul
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You will need low fire clay (I used a mix of stoneware and porcelain called Phoenix). You will also need carving tools, molding tools, water, a sponge, brushes and foam.
Some things I like to highlight is that building a sculpture in ceramics is very much an exercise in "seeing". Seeing with your hands, feeling the clay under your fingers
and feeling the subtle differences of texture, shape and size. But also, seeing with your eyes and having multiple reference pictures of your subject and translating those
to the clay.
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Step 2: The Eyes
Place the head on foam facing up. Calculate the positioning on the eyes which are about half way from the bottom close to the base of the snout. Press down with
your thumbs. Apply equal pressure to create the eye sockets.
Make two spheres the size of two small grapes. Attach them to the eye sockets. Roll out about 2" of clay to make a coil and attach each coil to the top and bottom
of the eyes to form the eye lids. Smooth and blend the clay to make the lids uniform.
Cut out two strips of Clay about 1/4" x 3/4" long. Attach each strip right above the eye lid to form the brow. Please look at the pictures above to see it better
illustrated.
Work clay and shape it to give expression to the eye.
Add the brow to the other side and work to make them as symmetrical as possible.
Cut two small squares about 1/2" each.
Add the clay to the inner part of the eye lids in the space between the nose and the eye to have a more pronounced brow area. (This is part of the exercise of
seeing. If you have a reference picture, you begin to make adjustments based on what you see).
Smooth and blend.
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Image Notes
1. Add the brow to the other side and work to make them as symmetrical as
possible.
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Step 3: The Nose And Mouth
It's time to make the snout more dimensional. Clay is added to each side to achieve this purpose.
It's time to identify the nose and mouth. Draw lines where the upper lip meet the nose, and where the lower lip meets the upper lip.
I noticed that the snout was to narrow and pointy so added more clay to give it more dimension.
Add a small amount of clay for the nose. Begin to define the lips and mouth.
With a carving tool, mark the shape of the mouth and blend and smooth the area until. Notice the moist towel to keep the clay from drying out.
Look at your piece from above, below and all sides. Try to make each side symmetrical.
Add the nostrils.
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Step 4: Closing The Head
Make a thick 1” round x 4” coil and flatten a little.
Score and scratch the top of the head until is very moist.
Attach the coil all around the top of the head and work clay until the top of the head is closed off. Use a flat wooden spoon to tap the head into shape. Rotate the
head as you do this and look at it from all angles to make it even and symmetrical.
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Step 5: The Ears
Using your reference picture locate where the ears go. In my case, the ears started right above the center of the eyeball and from the front and from the side they
lined up with the beginning of the jaw line. The ears also sit on top by the middle of the cranium, not too forward or to far back. The ear is about half of the face in
length. Grab enough clay and shape it into a dog’s ear. Score and attach to head. Smooth all seam lines.
As a finishing touch, roll out a 1” thick by 4-5” strip of clay and attach it around the neck. This gives the head a nice base and you could decorate it further to
make it look like a collar.
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