Rikard's Body Building, Part 2: Layering

Submitted by Rikard

Layering is where you build up slowly in detail bit by bit allowing the stage before to dry or even completely harden before you move on to sculpt the next bit. Like I said earlier nothing is sculpted in one go and so knowing what should be paced out is a good place to start as it makes your job as the sculptor SO much easier. Below are just a few examples of layering so you can get a good idea of just what I mean as with each of these stages the putty has been allowed to completely harden so if I touch it the detail will not smudge. Obviously these photos where not taken at every single stage of sculpting but again its simply there to help give you an idea of how to build up. (Click for larger images.)