Hello my friends and welcome to another Tuesday of tutorial!
I am Leonardo Pereznieto and today we will model a turtle in clay
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For this project, we will use water [correction: Oil-Based clay] clay...
some wooden knives with wire or rubber tips,
such as these ones,
some wire and a styrofoam ball which I cut in the middle because we only will use half.
Alright!
To make it a little bit easier I pre-cut some pieces of clay
so that is more manageable.
If where you are working is very cold, it may be a good idea to warm
it up a little bit so that it is not so hard, to soften it up.
Okay good! we begin by making the base
a place where the turtle will stand on.
Let's see... we need it a little bit wider, so we add more clay on the sides.
Let's round the corners, and we can actually give it a nicer shape once the turtle is on.
Now let's cover this half sphere with clay.
The reason I'm using this which it is totally optional
is to use less clay, to use less material
and also so that at the end it will be less heavy.
This will be the shell of the turtle.
Good! it is covered. But the shell doesn't have the shape of a perfect half circle,
it is longer from the front to the back than to the sides
so let's do that.
We add some more here... and here.
This is really fun!
I love the texture and the feel of the clay!
I smoothed it out a bit,
and let's see it looks alright as an overall shape.
And now we need the holes,
the orifices, where the head and limbs will be coming out.
The front one is a really large one, as it is the same one for the head and front legs,
while each of the back legs has its own.
Above the back legs, the shell sticks up just a little bit has like a little fender [laughter].
Something like this...
let's add some more.
Okay good!
and I lifted the front a little bit too
I will use a spacer, in this case a little nail box,
it can be anything, to lift it about half an inch or more.
For the structure of the legs I twisted some wire... like this.
Now let's bend it, at the height we want the knee,
cut it to the right size so that it fits inside,
and stick it in.
Very good!
Now the other one.
like so...
and we will do the same for the ones in the back.
Now the head, we do the bending of the head and neck.
and stick it in. And now we cover everything with clay.
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Okay good! and now let's go back to our turtle,
who has been patiently waiting for us [laughter].
We build the legs with clay and as I
mentioned in another tutorial, turtles are a symbol of peace, they live
in complete harmony with water, earth and the elements,
they have a steady pace...
and they are determined to complete their journey, no matter what it takes
and they enjoy the process.
Let's make the head which is squarish in the back and a
little bit triangular toward the front and we start giving it some texture.
They have some big nails or claws and we should give some texture to the shell,
as well, they have some nice design here.
Of course, the legs are very wrinkly,
as well as the neck. That looks very turtlelish [laughter]
and with this wire tool we can give some texture.
It's ready!
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Subtitled by Grethel Trejo