How to Sculpt Animal Heads | Learn Ceramics

This helpful art tutorial will demonstrate how to sculpt better animal heads. The information in this how-to video is simple and easy to follow along for all learning levels, from the beginner sculptor in ceramics to the more seasoned sculptor wanting to advance their skills. You will learn helpful tips for sculpting better faces and facial features of animals, such as eyes, ears, mouths, and the general face shape. I will also demonstrate and explain some common sculpting fails when it comes to creating more realistic sculptures. From this tutorial, you will gain insights and processes for making impressive sculptures of animals. Throughout this video, you'll watch me demonstrate how to sculpt a fox, but if you skip ahead to the last quarter of the video, I will speed sculpt a bear, cat, and fish as well. You are encouraged to follow along with me, or watch it and then reference as necessary! From this video, you will learn a bullet-proof process that I have taught to hundreds of students who have found success with it!

This tutorial will teach you:
- common mistakes in sculpting animal faces
- preparation materials
- processes that work for all animals
- how to sculpt individual features of the face (eyes, ears, nose, and mouth)

Do you have any questions? Anything you need clarified? Ask me in the comments! I ALWAYS answer your comments. No lame hearts and ignoring comments from this guy.
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Chapters:
00:00 How to Sculpt Animal Heads
1:39 Set up and references
2:17 Where to start sculpting
3:07 Sculpt the Profile
4:41 Don't do these!
6:01 Making eyes
10:44 Sculpt the bottom jaw
12:49 Sculpt the nose
13:29 Sculpt the ears
15:16 SPEEDSCULPT: Cat Head
17:05 SPEEDSCULPT: Fish Head
18:49 SPEEDSCULPT: Bear Head

[BlasDan]

thanks man you literally just saved me and my ceramics test

[sidritmalja]

Finally found a video that has proper instructions and information regarding sculpting. I picked up on clay sculpting because it helps with my anxiety disorder and now I can try your methods as they seem exactly for a beginner like me.
Liked it and subscribed. 👍🏻

[galejarrard]

This is awesome! Animal anatomy is so hard to do sometimes, this is a great guide for building the heads

[Elizabeth-qtmp]

Thank you do much. I learned why my animals look more like cartoons than anything close to reality 🙃
SO, thank you. You're a great teacher - much appreciated

[TwilightPhotonics]

This is great! The hardest thing for me are the eyes. The whole head is intimidating. Bless you for making such an amazing video for beginners like me!

[patriciaabuxapqui]

Thanks I’ve learn the easy and logic way to do this from you.

[お米-ms]

This video was very helpful! thank you

[nutmeg-sh]

What a great vid, many thanks, exactly what I need, so many tips. And so many no no `s all of which I have done! not now though.

[ShirleyMcMahon-artist]

Great demo! Lots of excellent info! Please drop the background noise though. Makes it really hard to hear. Thanks 😊

[seanbianchi]

These techniques are applicable to creating any creature - real or fantasy!

[AaronLoving]

Been struggling with a few tiger head sculpts on and off for the past few months and wondering why it was going wrong. I get 2 minutes in and I realize I shouldn’t have been focusing almost entirely on the forward-facing angle 😂. Thanks for the informative video, hope that implanting this advice will help :)

[lisethfernandez]

Very good video, I would love to make a standing chiguagua

[ThermicDynamo]

This helped so much. I would have failed ceramics as i cannot sculpt faces AT ALL. Thankyou.

[mkirby]

This is a great video! Thank you. Will these need to be hollowed out for firing? If so, do you have any instructions on the best way to do that without damaging the head?

[Tiny_Island_Designs]

If only there was a way to mute the music....your technique is great.

[-l]

What kinds of this clay you used?
I would like to try making a bear head instead🤔 can I apply acrylic on this afterwards?

[TabanyaRuuFinnishLapphunds]

Great video, really informative, but why the music? It's so unbelievably annoying and not necessary, it made it hard to focus on your words. Shame as your content is brilliant.

[anastasiasaroukou]

Να μας κανεις και το σωμα της αλεπους.

[jzina]

Please get rid of the background Muzak