How to Sculpt Fins on a Trout in Clay

Video Transcript

"JORGE BENLLOCH: Actually, we are going to start putting some detail here. This is like a fish sketch. But of course, you--remember what I did with my thumb? It was like re-shaping and putting all these tool marks away and all the finger marks away. You can do that also with a wet cloth or--but always I use my hands because it's good playing with our hands and clay. That's a bonus. Then, I tell you that we are going to use tools for that but not much so. Just make the radius more obvious. Then later, when we paint these shades, they are going to make this kind of shades and they are going to give this kind of deep impression like a good sculpture. This--I mean, to make this kind of differences on volume, that's very, very good on the sculptors. Because the light, when we are working with three-dimensional pieces like this one, the light and the shades, they make the difference and they define more the product of the sculptor. Now, we have to be very, very careful here to follow the radius that--that's the center and if we goof a little bit, it's going to look not too good and it's not that easy."