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Summary: How to choose a design that will make your figurine sculpture unique; learn tips, tricks and techniques for creating beautiful sculpture in this free online art video about sculpting taught by expert sculptor Jorge Benlloch.

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Jorge Benlloch Jorge Benlloch is originally from Barcelona, Spain, where he received a M.A. & B.A in art at Steban Ripeaux Academy. He has taught art at the University Popu... read more

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How to Design a Clay Sculpture

JORGE BENLLOCH: Now we have to pick a model, which design. I love this posture of the-these drawings that are original from Yves Saint-Laurent. That's he was fantastic draw-- designer in many ways. But I like the posture and also with those hats that they give this kind of fantastic personality to the '60s, beginning or middle '60s. Then we have to choose one but, of course, one that have this kind of structure because this dress it's self-supporting, the figure. Then this is it's a good one, it's not Yves Saint-Laurent but it's a good one that maybe we are going to follow more or less that inspiration. And maybe we are going to put like a hat like that or the posture of the model like that, and then it would be a mixture of these two things. I'm going to start--yeah; I'm going to see what happen with that. This is a very sexy model. Let's see. Now let me do that I need like a minute. Now the models, they are very skinny and a--but I don't like it. Models they have to have everything. But one of the things that I'm trying to do here to is to protect the figure to attach the arms and the hands to the body. Then it's going to be less fragile and it's not going to break easy, put it that way. That's my concern here. I like this posture here that is like that. I like the posture of that one. Then, I'm going to mix the two of them and you will see that it's going to be good. I'm going to I'm fixing and putting very attached and not too thin arms in order to reinforce the structure and the sculpture itself, because if not, this is going to be a little bit too fragile. That's the problem with the figurines, that's why the figurines always--they make it with resin or--and also with the mold because clay itself, you have to fire it or--like that supposedly that--this is going to be self-drying clay. It's going to be a little bit fragile but I hope it's going to last enough to enjoy it long time. I'm just trying to define. We're going to make--we are making here the bones, structural bones. We're going to take out of this shoulder thing. We're going to make the blades here. The models they have more blades than nice things in the front.

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