How to Sculpt Face & Gills of a Fish in Clay

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"JORGE BENLLOCH: Now, we start to reshape. Normally, we have to add more body here, but this, it's pretty good. And then we are going to leave this, and we are going to add a little bit of material in the gills to make the face of the--and this is going to give us the thickness of that. If we do that very thick or dramatically thick we are going to make the cheeks, gills. And then this is going to give us--if we have to go higher on the center of the body, I mark the position of the eye here but it doesn't mean that they have a big eye. You make like a coil, and you add this kind of thick mouth here. This--they have an articulate mouth, quite complicated fish. Now, this lower jaw is a little bit wider there but we can add more material here. Later, we are going to put this design on top, and we will reshape again. But this is only now for the volume. This is--the volume of the eyes is very important. I think it's going to be--yeah, that one has a big eye."