Hello my friends and welcome to another Tuesday of tutorial!
I am Leonardo Pereznieto and today we will model a baby Dragon
hatching (coming out of the egg), and for that will use this clay,
which is water based, so it will dry and harden by itself with the air.
We take some of it and work it a bit, we can add some water
to make it softer and we work it a little bit more, so that the water
and the softness spreads evenly.
And we start giving it the shape of an egg, but it is a bit small, so let’s take
some more clay, water it as needed and add it
to make it bigger.
The egg that I am making will probably be small, for Dragon´s standards [laughter]
but it will be bigger than a chicken`s egg anyways.
With a tool like this or with a butter knife I can try to make it a little bit more rounded.
Good!
But since it is pretty soft and a bit sticky, I think the hands work better, actually.
And now, let’s cut a hole in it
we need to make some space so that our baby Dragon will be sitting in there and
will be coming out.
Alright!
And let’s scoop some more out, like so.
This clay is drying pretty fast and is crackling, so I smooth it out with some more water.
Now let’s do the Dragon,
and we will begin with the head.
We do a shape and also will have like the neck and part of the body so
that it holds itself up.
Like so.
Obviously the head is bigger and then the neck a little bit smaller, so we
take some clay out.
And we position it here.
Let’s build the snout squeezing the clay a little bit, and let’s give it a crest
something like that.
A pointed ridge in the middle.
Then we should carve the eyes, not the eyes I meant the eyes´ sockets
like so, and we can add a little ball for the eyes.
Very good!
Then the eyelids, on each side, and we do a line opening for the mouth.
The clay of the egg keeps crackling a lot, but now I think actually it looks
good since our egg should be crackling
so I guess this is a happy accident and I will leave it like that.
And we make some space for the baby arm to come out.
Like so, and we shape it a little bit.
The elbow and fingers.
Let’s refine the crest, we should make it crisper... like so.
And then, let’s model a little wing, we begin with a triangular shape and
then in one side we make it wavy.
And we give it some texture, scaly texture.
Let’s make some texture also to the head
and the body.
Good! and let’s amplify some of the cracks.
It looks like we did a lot of work with those cracks [laughter].
I like them.
I LOVE sculpting so much!
So much that I am actually seriously considering making all future tutorials, exclusively
on modeling and sculpting.
Would you like that?
or would you prefer majority of the videos being on drawing and a few on painting
and sculpting.
Please let me know in the comments.
Ok, I let the clay dry for a day and now with acrylic paint, I’m painting it all
white, as you see.
The egg will stay white, but as soon as it is dry, we give a layer of gold
to the Dragon.
This gold is a little bit transparent, so if I had painted it on the brown
color of the clay, it would look a lot darker.
Very good!
Now the eyes let’s paint them orange, and I add a little bit more paint.
Like so.
Very good!
¡Excelente!
Now the other one.
And the pupil of course, black.
We do it a little bit elongated, like a cat. Here is the wing that had fallen off.
And the other eye.
Very good! Al right!
The last touches and its ready!
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Subtitled by Grethel Trejo