Need Help on A new Sculpt.

[Gemlock]

So it's been a while since I have posted here and also since I have sculpted but now I am doing both. =D I am working on a sculpture on Rogue from X-men and I need help on her hair. I have no clue how to make it. I posted a picture that I am referencing to give you an idea of what I am going for so that I can get the best help possible.

-Much appreciated
Nick

[Chizome]

If you are using Sculpey, I recommend bulking her hair out with foil and then covering it with a layer of Sculpey, then rolling out thin pieces for individual locks. It may be painstaking but this is the best way I can think of to do it.

[philofmars]

If you are using Sculpey, I recommend bulking her hair out with foil and then covering it with a layer of Sculpey, then rolling out thin pieces for individual locks. It may be painstaking but this is the best way I can think of to do it.

What I do is, put a lump in the general form of the whole head, then pull out fly-aways with the "little pointed thingy with a ball on the end" tool, twist the end of the clay with fingers to make a point and use the ball on the tip to draw in the definition of strands. Always pulling at an angle so it's denting/grooving the clay, not staight up and down gouging and making shrapnel.
Is this making sense?
Please don't follow that last drawing of her butt. It's weird....
:)

[Chrome Coffee Mug]

Please don't follow that last drawing of her butt. It's weird....
:)

What? You don't like man-butt? :)

[ScytheNoire]

Her butt in that picture looks like a ballsack

[Gemlock]

Thanks for the comments they are really gonna help. And don't worry I gave her a nice unrealistic comic character butt.

-Nick

[qlotzan]

hi mate try this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gRtt7G7GiHA

[HackTardist]

lol at that drawing

[WanderingProphet]

If you working in polymers or soft clays (WED, Monster clay ect ect) then your best best is rubber shaping tools, I suggest both scales of the round-cone tip shapers, then it's just a matter of working negative space into a solid mass, don't try to to hair individually, it's best to work from a solid, somewhat smoothed mass

[WanderingProphet]

BTW, don't use foil in the hair! That's bad, if your doing a lot of subtractive work and impressions the last thing you want is to touch foil through the clay and have it poke through or hinder you. Use sculpey up to thicknesses of 1/2- 3/4 inch, you won't run into any problems with cracking.