About your Fantasy Character Class
In this course with multiple sessions, James will teach students the basic skills of creating a character design, and then realizing that character in clay. Students will use traditional techniques to develop a character, create various types of designs as preparatory renderings, and finally sculpt their finished work.
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Students will create a final sculpture using Super Sculpey - a polymer clay with extra strength which can be baked in the hot oven at 275 degrees. An armature - metal framework that is built and designed to support the weight of the clay will be the structure & initial "skeleton" of the figure.
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Materials -
A list of links to specific supplies will be available soon...
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For Drawing & Design -
Drawing Pad 8.5 x 11 or larger
Mechanical Pencil - Pentel Twist Erase 0.7 is recommended
Colored Pencils or other color mediums if desired (for initial design)
Kneaded Rubber Eraser
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For Sculpting -
Wood base
Armature Wire
Tinfoil
Sculpting Tools
Super Sculpey
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Week 1:
Introduction to Materials
Introduction to Methods
Idea Generation
Getting to Know Your Character
Initial Renderings
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Week 2:
Character Turnarounds
Final Design Rendering
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Week 3:
Creating an armature (to support the clay)
Begin Final Sculpture
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Week 4: (2 days available for sculpting)
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Week 5: (2 days available for sculpting)
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Sculpey can be baked in the over to make into a more permanent form of sculpture - students will be guided by James how to make an appropriate size to still be bale to be "fired" in the home oven at 275 degrees
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Arcane Character - Front View
Reference for armature constuction
Character Design in Sketchbook
Character Created with Super Sculptey
Instructor James Andrews
James Andrews has been an art educator in drawing, painting & sculpture in the Pacific Northwest for the last 25 years and has recently earned a Master of Arts in Atelier Studio Arts at the Florence Academy of Art in Florence, Italy. Andrews is a classical realist whose mostly figurative work has a heavy emphasis on narrative & storytelling.
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