Video: Carve Hair Clumps in Wax Sculpture

Adding hair to a wax sculpture uses layers and textures. Carve a human head from wax with a professional artist in this free sculpting video.

Video Transcript

We have already established the basic shapes, the basic clumps. Now within each of those clumps, we're going to start giving them some 3 dimensional shape. So I'm just going to come back in here and grab any one of these clumps. Start here at the part and cut the clump, the line deeper on both sides so that the top of the clump represents that highest point in the hair strand. I'm not putting hair in yet, I'm just dealing with clumps of hair at this point in time. That's one. It's got a shape that's kind of like this. We'll do the same thing with this one. And he has slightly wavy hair so our clumps are going to be following wavy lines. If our person had straight hair, you'd follow straight lines. And you can see how this is starting to have a feel like a real head even though it's very, very crude and rough shaped at this point and doesn't have any of the details that hair is expected to. But that's the process. We'll have to do that to the whole thing and once we?ve done that, then we can start worrying about the details of the hair itself.

Carve Hair Clumps in Wax Sculpture

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