Hello my friends and welcome to another Tuesday of tutorial!
I am Leonardo Pereznieto and today we will model a puma.
I will use this clay bar which I cut in half, one part will be for the base,
and the other one for the beast [laughter].
Let´s start shaping the base, which will be a rock.
And we cut two sections of the other half,
one is to make base longer,
…like this.
Let´s round the corners.
And the other one will be the puma or the mountain lion, or cougar…
however you want to call it.
The hind legs will be like this because he will be crouching.
Actually, they are a little bit too wide, lets cut them.
I´m cutting them with a straight painting spatula, which is very handy for this
type of slices.
And let´s shape the back, a little bit more rounded.
Let´s redo the hind legs which are pretty rounded on the upper part
and then down here we have the ankle and the foot.
We can smooth it out a little bit
with a color shaper.
Here is the knee and the leg pulls back.
Like this.
I´ll add a little bit more clay for the back
and let´s build the scapula or the shoulder blades.
Those are pretty characteristic in cats.
The front legs will be like this…
in a resting position in front.
Let´s draw some muscles of the leg
and shape a little bit the ribcage, the belly, the shoulder and the arm.
And we begin working on the face.
For now just a general shape.
Remember,
first do the general shapes,
the big masses and once they are done, then refine them and add more and more detail.
Some people ask me if they should use more the tools, or more the hands or what is
correct?
And the truth is that there is not correct or incorrect answer to that.
I have known some sculptures that preach that you should use the tools as much as possible and
others that use their hands, almost for everything, and the tools very sparingly.
so there is no rules, whatever works for you is fine.
My puma is looking like a bear, by the way [laughter].
He is a little chubby.
For me, I think I use both, the tools and my hands, but I don´t really think about it.
That, I mean for modeling, when I need to take material off, then I definitely
use a tool.
We give the shape to the leg and foot on this other side, and also to the front leg,
the elbow, etcetera.
I will definitely not finish this sculpture in detail very realistically, but rather I
want it to look lose and with character, more like a sketch,
a sketch in clay.
I will leave the tail for the end, so that I can model the body.
I like this little wooden tool to work the clay.
The neck of the cougar is pretty wide, practically as much as the head.
We mark where the head begins
and then, it is pretty rounded, so we add clay. Like so.
And we shape the snout.
At the height of the eyes is where it comes down toward the snout, but
just a little, and that is where the bone of the nose begins.
Below the cheekbone there is a recess.
And as I told you, the head of these cats is pretty rounded.
Let´s shape a little bit better the snout
and give more detail to the nose.
Then we add the ears,
which are small and triangular shaped, but with a rounded tip.
I lift our kitty with the painting spatula to measure the base.
This will be the top of the base only.
I want it to be slanted, it will be like the top of a big rock.
We add more clay and put it together … something like this.
Alright.
We make some slices to get it to the right shape,
and then, with the wire side of the tool
we make the rocky texture.
That fits pretty ok,
but I will modify a section here, because I want the mountain lion
to have one arm down… to give it more movement.
And the other paw will also come down in this fashion.
Good! and let´s add the tail.
We shape some leg muscles, and then give it a rough texture with the wood.
And with the shaper, we can smooth it down a little bit as needed.
And also give more detail.
All right!
We should also roughly shape the eyes…
and by the way the list of materials for this project
is in the information below the video.
We added the deltoid, and triceps muscles on the arm.
And it´s ready!
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Subtitled by Grethel Trejo