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Clay Techniques-02

2) Skin for the Doll, pix 14-30 on Screen Shots


Fearless Leader: back
teri56: me too
Fearless Leader: roll call, is everyone ready?
frogger70301: back
jakmiami: ok
Fearless Leader: Merrie and Cheryl?
Fearless Leader: ya there?
merrie60us: ready
frogger70301: Is Merrie saving?
Fearless Leader: Cheryl melted
Fearless Leader: she said it was hot there
Fearless Leader: LOL
frogger70301:
Fearless Leader: I don't know. Who is saving?
merrie60us: i am
frogger70301: k
Fearless Leader: Mitch you're shooting shots?
frogger70301: just wanted to check real quick.
frogger70301: yeah. Got 14 so far.
chelyha: I'm here!
Fearless Leader: I'm going to do what I said above, cut smaller leaf
shapes and pull and stretch them for the back of the thigh and the
calf
Fearless Leader: LOL
chelyha: had to feed the kitties
Fearless Leader: hey honey, just let us know you're there so I don't
think you're missing something, awww, kitties
Fearless Leader: pix when you got a tick on the kitc
Fearless Leader: kits
Fearless Leader: screwed up my own joke
Fearless Leader: hmmm, let's cut leaf shapes then
Fearless Leader: LOL
frogger70301: 15
merrie60us: putting leaves on legs approx 3 on each leg
merrie60us: now rolling pencil shaped shaper on legs
merrie60us: inner thigh
chelyha: right now she looks like some kind of alien
frogger70301: 16
merrie60us: making lines or definition on muscles
merrie60us: shaping
Fearless Leader: one trick
Fearless Leader: when I'm at this point
Fearless Leader: I wrap the doll in some waxed paper
Fearless Leader: to hold it
Fearless Leader: without putting my hands on the skin clay
Fearless Leader: let me go get a clean sheet
Fearless Leader: relatively clean any way
frogger70301: 17
merrie60us: putting wax paper over body
merrie60us: legs exposed
merrie60us: holding on wax paper and shaping legs
frogger70301: smoothing out the rest of the body
frogger70301: 18
merrie60us: body is being shaped more and more
merrie60us: can see muscles
merrie60us: very clear
merrie60us: body laying down on wax paper
frogger70301: 19
Fearless Leader: rib cage ridge
frogger70301: 20
Fearless Leader: wrap to under arms
merrie60us: putting leaves on chest area
merrie60us: shaping now
frogger70301: 21
frogger70301: 22
frogger70301: working on chest
frogger70301: 23
merrie60us: applying leaves to chest to make breasts
merrie60us: shaping chest
teri56: I need to scoot guys ......... thanks NJ ........ g'nite all
frogger70301: nite teri
merrie60us: good nite
merrie60us: taking another leaf
merrie60us: applying to front of thigh
frogger70301: 24
chelyha: Nite Teri!
frogger70301: 25
frogger70301: smoothing the thigh
Fearless Leader: ok
Fearless Leader: now from here it's fiddling time
Fearless Leader: smoothing seams
Fearless Leader: but your masses will be where they need to be
Fearless Leader: I want to bend her legs
Fearless Leader: I have to put a crease behind the knee
Fearless Leader: and in front by the hip or she will bend in a U shape
Fearless Leader: and not an L shape
frogger70301: 26
frogger70301: 27
frogger70301: bending the legs.
merrie60us: sitting position
Fearless Leader: whew
Fearless Leader: she's tired
frogger70301: 28
merrie60us: making pose
frogger70301: 29
Fearless Leader: she'll rest for a minute
Fearless Leader: she needs it
Fearless Leader: the clay gets tacky
Fearless Leader: handled too much
Fearless Leader: and what needs to happen next is to get some head
covering
Fearless Leader: get a face
Fearless Leader: make hands and feet
Fearless Leader: but they are all separate demos
Fearless Leader: for what I wanted to concentrate on
Fearless Leader: is applying the clay to the armature
Fearless Leader: with leaf shapes
Fearless Leader: for it does gather your clay
Fearless Leader: where the muscle masses on the body
Fearless Leader: sculpting backwards towards a mirror looking at the
monitor
Fearless Leader: isn't the most ideal sculpting environment
Fearless Leader: like micro surgery or something
Fearless Leader: but you get the general idea
merrie60us: I am going to have toleave for the evening. Sorry I will
save and send right now NJ
merrie60us left the room
frogger70301: 30
frogger70301: playing with poses
Fearless Leader: ya, I play with my dollies
Fearless Leader: so any questions?
frogger70301: wouldn't be no fun if you didn't
jakmiami: yeah, when can we do this again?!
Fearless Leader: right now?
frogger70301: break?
Fearless Leader: break for sure