How to Shape Clay into Human Form: Part 1

Video Transcript

"Well we are going to start shaping now… but before that look, it doesn't attach. That is something that I have to always remind you. Put the clay on, when you are working with clay, like clothing. This is a drop cloth, from you know, painting, whatever. Any piece of cloth is good because it absorbs the moisture and always it detaches the clay so well. Now we are going to start shaping. As we know, the legs, they are less thick than the chest and we are going to start with this cutting down that much. And let us see. We have the legs almost in good shape. Now we are going to do the arms too. The arms are going to look like that and going to look like that. We cut off one finger, sorry for that. And then, we are going to reshape the other side. The neck of course, we can use this tool now, it is a very good tool. Take this part off with my tool. Then we are going to round the contour without breaking it. The lower part, have to make the waist. If it's a man, you have to make like plates here, like a strong guy. Some kind of shoulders. Some kind of triceps here. We see that hand has to be totally cut off and reshaped down, of course. And then we are going to make the other side right now."