How to Make Clay Head Sculpture

How to Make Clay Head Sculpture How to Make Clay Head Sculpture Clay head sculpture is one of the finest arts displayed as decorative item in many popular places. The first thing that should prepare in this art is making frame work. The frame works is basically created with aluminum wires. The clay is mainly polymer clay used for making sculptures. However, one can use various sculpture tools to prepare it. Building clay head sculpture is simple and easy if you follow some useful hints given under:

Useful ingredients

There are many sculpture ideas one can gain from school project, or from any other college term work. Clay sculpture is also very popular among children. They enjoy forming different shapes, features out of clay. This is very simple and easy method for enhancing creative attitude. These help children learning about clay sculpting. There are lots of ways for experimenting preparation of clay heads along with clay. Build the clay head with clay coils. For building clay head sculpture some necessary materials are needed. They are newspaper, wooden base, glue, wood scraps.

Crete sketches

Create sketches of the sculpture you want to make. Draw oval shape drawing for recognizing face. Sketch a cross where two lines intersect each other in the centre of the oval shape. Use one vertical line two form centre of the eyes. Separate the eyes by creating another eye in between. Draw vertical line from the side corner of each eye to place the external edge of the nose. Create new horizontal line to break the third eye and draw the mouth by the side of face to chin. The head needs coli tubes for making neck .Smooth the coils to create flat surface once, you have empty head shape. Sprinkle the head with some water if it begins to crack. So, make it moister to prevent dryness. Water based clay has to kept excess moister during sculpting.

Prepare basic shape

For preparing basic shape of sculptures, start making the head with the help of a newspaper. For accurate shape, feature a spherical shape must be created attach to newspaper and fixed to wooden base. Bind the paper ball, with the help of tape, and start adding clay to the surface. Clay must add from top of paper ball till the wooden base. Create eyes, nose, ears and hairs. Give every detail to look more like human appearances. Create hollows to represent eyes sockets by pressing middle of the face leaving an eye length between the hollows. Create eye ball size sphere and cut it in half. Refer to the sketch to consider the placement of the eye lids. Cut sphere of upper and lower lids of each eye. Use needle tool to create hollow for pupil and radiating lines. Build bridge by creating edge shape. Attach top of the bridge lean between the eyes. Roll two spheres and attach them on either sides of bridge to represent size and shape of the nose.

Shade with color

This can be more decorative with the help of painting, colorful papers and other decorative items. So, use some gorgeous colors to make beautiful the sculpture. You can add colors if you want to make the clay colorful. Generally, silver or light gray colors are used in decorative clay heads. If used for children, make it multi color to look attractive and playful.

Preparing clay head sculpture is simple and easy as anyone can make it following some instructions.