Finishing Up a Wax Sculpture

Video Transcript

"The rest of the process is basically refining and taking it down further, looking at your drawing, reshaping those areas, refining the edges where areas come together doing some sanding. Smoothing on those places that need to be smoothed trying to just generally bring it all back together and do a fine shape. And once you've done that final step you might want to put down the final details like the line above the brows, just scribe it in or edges of the eyes, eye crinkles. And then just generally look at the thing, smooth things out as you think they need smoothing, and when you're done, you're done. When are you done on a sculpture? We could have stopped any point along the stage and it would be a legitimate sculpture. This is art it's not reality. We can create it just as realistic as we want or we can leave it as crude or rough as we wish. This could be considered a finished sculpture, this could be considered finished because of the nature of these two pieces which will become action figures I will take them a little further than we have taken them today but this gets us very very close to where we want. If this were a final sculpture and you were going to keep it then you would probably want to heat the bottom up make sure you've got a good solid flat base and then press it against something like wood so that it's got a nice solid flat surface on which you can mount it on a nice piece of rosewood or some other kind of wood creating a nice stand for it and display it in a place of pride. Good luck! Enjoy the process, you can't make any mistakes it's all worthwhile, it's all wonderful, it's all good. Say goodbye, bye, bye."