Maquette session

today I attempted to create a maquette of my character.

The materials that I used where;
- wire (named ‘amnesia wire’ as it doesn’t remember and reform back to they way it’s been bent, making it easy to manipulate.)
- sculpey ( super sculpey original)
- wood blocks ( a base for our maquette to stand on)
- tinfoil and masking tape (to shape and fill out our figure before applying super sculpey)
- wire cutters as a tool.
(Our figures have to be 15cms or smaller.)

I have started my figure, but not yet finished...

 Having created the wirer skeleton, I have begun to add tinfoil and masking tape. There is a few parts I feel I may have to redo, as I am not satisfied with the way it looks.

(My attempt to add Sculpty to this showed that I needed to redo this) 

The head needs to be rounded and smoothed, as it’s a sphere/ magic eight ball.

In my previous experience I have not been very good at model making; so I will need to further research too improve my work. I have not had much practise nor had time to develop my skills, so now is my chance.

Despite needing to redo and fix my maquette, this is the process that I have learnt in this lesson:

1. With the wire, bend a leg, hip, spine and neck/head, taking up half of the wire. for my head i twisted the excess wire to shape it.
2. with the other half, cut it too an half, once again.
3, with this half, twist it to the body shaping it into anther leg, it should be the same size as the other leg! double twist so the leg does not move.

4. Add the arms; bend each end at equal length, to also create shoulders. twist the shoulders around the torso of the figure. Once again, make sure its sturdy so that it will not move around or slip.

5. Pose your character into a dynamic pose, straighten out legs, twist waist, pose arms ect.

6. Begin to fill out the figure, using tin foil. Super sculpey must not be too thick as it parts will still be raw after cooking, and not to thin as parts will burn and crumble. Hence the important of the filling out, making sure its right before adding the mould.

7. and you may also add other materials such as masking tape to hold things down. Then add sculpey..