Hello my friends and welcome to another Tuesday of tutorial!
I am Leonardo Pereznieto and today we will model a panther or leopard in clay.
For this we will use this beautiful model that the British company 3d Total
sent me, so kindly!
In one side you can see the finished skin of the cat
while on the other one you can see their anatomical features
all the muscles.
It came with also with this card that shows precisely, all the muscles!
I will link the product in the description of the video in case you are interested
and I hope you enjoy it!
The list of materials is also in the description below the video.
Previously, I made a skeleton or a structure to be
able to build the figure in clay.
I did this based on the model.
I sort of traced the model, and I nailed it to a board, a support to be able to work on.
Now let's make the base. By the way, the feet start not from the board but a
little bit higher, in other words we take into account the thickness of the base
so now the feet begin from the top of this clay, very good.
and with the side of the tool that has teeth, we give it some texture.
Like so, with strokes in different directions.
Alright! and now it's time to begin building the beast.
There are many ways in which you can do this...
today I will be adding little pieces of clay to build the volumes, and the shapes.
Let's build the powerful torso.
You can either use the tool for this or you can
choose to add the clay with your fingers.
It takes some time but it is really pleasurable and relaxing.
We do the whole body like this
and of course the head
which in the case of the leopard it's pretty squarish.
Let's add the snout
and a little bit more mass, over here
actually, the whole thing a little bit bigger.
That's better!
And now that we have more or less the volume let's refine with the tool.
Both giving it a better shape and also we can smooth out the bumps [laughter].
I see that this leg should be a little bit thicker
Now let's look at both my sculpture and the model from the top
and make those shapes a little better.
When you are making a sculpture you have to be looking at it
continuously from every angle.
Sometimes you look at it from somewhere else and you realize you were very wrong.
Now let's refine the head.
The snout it´s pretty square, and much smaller than the volume of the head itself.
I don't know if you know this but it's interesting that the black panthers are actually not
a different species but a mutation of the leopard.
It is a similar thing in a way but opposite to albinism.
In albinism, of course, there is a lack of pigment
while black panthers are usually leopards or jaguars with an excess
of black pigment.
And I'm modeling some of the muscles .
Other cats can be black too, but this mutation is most common in leopards and jaguars.
Jaguars, as you probably know, are very similar to the leopards in color
and marks but they are a little bit shorter and bulkier.
But the main difference is that they are located in different places.
The leopards are mainly in Africa and Asia
while jaguars are exclusively in the Americas.
I'll start building some of the detail of the head but first let's make
sure it has the correct shape.
We need to add some more clay over here.
By the way, the mutation of the black panthers I was talking about
seems to be a positive one.
I say this because it is more common in tight jungles which have less light
and are darker and therefore being black is an advantage.
Also leopards tend to hunt at night so the darkness can very much be an advantage.
They are very strong, if they catch a small prey they usually eat it on the spot,
but if they hunt a big one, they bring it up a tree to protect it
even though sometimes these preys are heavier than themselves.
Let's model the ears,
and give some detail to the head and snout
and then we build the shape of the powerful paws and of the wrist.
I think we should add some more clay here.
They have 5 toes in the front feet, and 4 on the hind ones.
All right! to make it appear more realistic and more alive, we should add
some of the ribs and some of the muscles, but gently and softly.
Very good! ¡Excelente!
It's ready!
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Subtitled by Grethel Trejo