For most beginners who just started playing with mud, they didn't know how to start at the moment they got the mud, and they wanted to do everything, but they couldn't do anything, so they began to explore slowly with the tutorial. The process of groping may be short, but for most people, it is very long, so we need a set of systematic training to get promoted faster.

Lesson 1 Lesson-Sphere Exercise

Why do you practice the ball first?

Sphere is the most basic shape in clay sculpture, and all shapes are basically transformed from sphere.

Materials: ultra-light clay, clay tool knife, white latex, lotion.

Rubbing skills:

(1) Treating wrinkles-grinding off the surface of a wrinkled sphere? At this time, it is necessary to cruelly flatten the kneaded ball and remove the air inside. In the process of hard kneading, the originally dry clay can become soft and moist again, and then slowly (slightly hard) knead the clay into a ball in the palm of your hand after kneading. What if there are wrinkles again? (There is really no way out) At this time, use moisturizing cream, touch a little on your fingers and gently smear it on the surface of the clay ball until there are no wrinkles.

② How to control the clay particle size to be consistent? We need a knife at this time.

This method is called average score. How? Let me take two photos first.

First, we have to rub a piece of clay into a small ball (not too fine)

Then rub it into long strips (which must be uniform strips)

Then use a knife tool to cut and turn around, and we can divide it equally: carve a small cell on the clay strip, and then carve a cell (as many cells as needed).

average score

After carving, we cut off each cell and put it in a sealed box to prevent the clay from drying out, so that we can start making particles.