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Foil Doggy - WIP

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This is the same piece as seen in this photo, but now it has been wrapped in aluminum foil:




Aluminum foil has two uses, one of which is fleshing out your sculpture so that you don't have to go through quite as much clay per each sculpture, but the second and even more important reason is that it gives your clay a place to "grip." If you tried to form the clay on just the armature wire, it would be pulling away and falling off during the sculpting process. Very annoying. This is why it is important to make sure that the foil completely covers the extent of the legs and around the ends of the paws as well as to the end of the tail.

The only reason the foil does not go to the end of this sculpture's tail is because it is going to be a short-tailed wolf and that excess wire will be docked before the clay is applied.
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xStealingTheStarsx's avatar
im foiling mine now, its hard work, my foil likes to pop off -.- thanks for the picture ;)