Friday, March 20, 2020

Finally in one piece

Skyefigure has a head on her shoulders now! Here's how that happened.

I inserted a 1mm aluminum wire in the hole I'd made on the underside of the head, cut off some clay around the wire sticking out of the torso to have more room for the twisting, twisted the head's wire around the torso's 2mm one, and wrapped a bit of foil around it all.

Then covered the aluminum mess with clay, and smoothed it into both ends of the neck, and posed the head a bit before baking.

At this point the neck is just a column to connect the head to the body, more clay around it to be added later, for the proper shape of the neck and details. Since the wire wasn't baked into the head originally, this seam would not be very secure without baking it at this point, before doing anything more to it.

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