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Sara121089 β Wire Armature Tutorial
Published: 2011-02-21 05:59:41 +0000 UTC; Views: 11181; Favourites: 208; Downloads: 132
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Phew!! This took a while. Please Download for full view.This is a tutorial on how to make the frames in sculptures-from wire to end product! I got permission from to use their sculpture as an example.
I hope you all find this helpful! If you have any suggestions, please let me know. It is my first tutorial after all. If you have any questions I did not answer specifically, shoot me a note! Thank you all!
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Can you please add a video on YOUTUBE of a lion if you can do that that will be great
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Great tutorial!!! But I have a problem when doing the armature:
Every time I try to cover the wire with the aluminium foil, the foils breaks (its very weak!) but the worst is that the foil doesn't get attached to the wire, it slips! So when I put the clay in the foil it is just a total mess... What can I do? >_<
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I've heard that taping the foil with not scotch or duct tape.. what is that tape called D: Β It's white and sort of fabricy feeling vs all slippery.. Well taping it with that helps keep it in place. Β When I had these issues I just sort of smashed some clay around it messily, because once you get some clay layering it, it tends to stay in place (or be much easier to work with)
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Thank you n_n I'll try that!
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That made thing a lot easier when i do it THANKS (:
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Your're welcome! I'm glad you liked it and it helped!!
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Great tutorial! If I ever use it, I'll be sure to include your tutorial in the description.
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The link wasn't found 
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I have to do something like this fo school and this is really helping, so thanks!
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Your very welcome, I'm glad I could help!!
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Wow that was super helpful! I'm starting to make clay dragons and that was an awesome tutorial! Thanks!
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Awesome I'm so glad it helped!! Your very welcome!
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I'm really hoping it get's easier with practice! Tin foil is a pain in the butt! And very sharp.....XD
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well it's going better. slightly! I just ignore the shreds of skin spotting it!
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Oh my o.o"" *twitches slightly* Ow! lol
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Lol, well it's worth it! I'm currently working on a model of the dragon Toothless!
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Ahh!! I love toothless
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He turned out really well! I'm getting better with both wire and tinfoil! Not as many scratchies!
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Yayyyy! 
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yeah he is! Wow moving is always an adventure! Hope you like your new place!
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Thanks for this useful tutorial, and that's such a cool sculpture!
Sorry if this is a stupid question, how do you smoothen the clay? Is there some kind of tool specific for that or do you just use your hands ?
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Thank you!
I just use my fingers ^^ for areas they can't reach I use whatever small tool works best for it XD
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Thanks for answering, I hope I can get better at my work and be able to do what you can do (:
What small tools do you normall use? I have tried needles at small places before and it just made things worse D:
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I use needles, pencil tips, toothpicks, etc ><" It's a painful process sometimes lol
And I'm sure you will! It's just practice
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wow this is realy helpful! (im doing a sculpture for this 4-h thing) i cant wait to get started and use this
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:'D I hope your sculpture turns out fantastically! You'll have to show me after your done
I'm glad you found this useful
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ok i will (but it may be a while i havent even made a sketch 
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Why thank you very much 
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no problem at all
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Thanks so much! Now I'm no longer groping in the dark on how to make a decent model. You've helped me loads
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Your so welcome
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OooOOoh, how lovely! *bookmarks* Thanks for taking the time! ^_^
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:'D Thank you so much, and you are very welcome!!
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oooo this is amazing, what kind of clay do you use? and what kind of paint/glaze? ^.^;
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That's all in my commission journal, if not said in the tutorial ^_^
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This is helpful , but how would I make a breaking dancing wolf on one hand wearing clothes, you don't have to answer this if you don't want to.
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Well a break dancing wolf on one hand, that depends on the pose. You'll either need supportive rods to hold him up, or put him in a position with his weight even to where he won't tip over. You could also use a base, then nail his hand into the base, except you'd need an air drying clay to cover up the nail, etc etc. Now for clothes, if you want real cloth then you'd have to just sew some clothes and put them on him. If you wanted to sculpt clothes, then all you do is try to imagine how the clothes would hang off of the body, the wrinkles, and what not.
Thanks by the way
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Could it possible to glue him to a base?
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it might be, all depends on how heavy he is in certain places. It would take a bit of testing that's for sure ^^
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And also how big he is too, right?
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