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How to Sculpt Dolphins from Clay

Rounding the bodies to make your dolphin sculpture more realistic; learn tips and techniques for sculpting in this free online art lesson about sculpting taught by expert sculptor Jorge Benlloch.

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JORGE BENLLOCH: We're going to follow the process of the other ones too. I mean now, we try to round the bodies first and those down supposedly to be farther, they have to be less thicker 'cause we have to make the illusion that they are farther. This too, cut this and that. Now this guy has to be detached. Cut this and that. Okay, let's work on the tail here. Now, they say this is not the tail. Well, of course, it acts as a fantastic tail and very powerful. But it's a mammal. Then the structure of the dolphin, it's quite similar to the mammals, to the marine mammals. Like the seals, well, they have--that's the tail that is not really a tail because there are the bones that it looks like the hand. There is like a finger bone. They are mammals and they have a tail like a marine mammal too like the seal, but so much evolving. And so, special way that those guys, they so fantastic especially that they are fast swimmers that they have this kind of skin that it's soft, it's like rubber, and the investigators, I mean, the War Department is providing the U-boats about a coating that more or less is the same coating that the dolphins have in order to swim faster.

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How to Sculpt Dolphins from Clay

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