The next session we started to sculpt our characters out of plasticine on top of the armatures we'd built the previous week. We used a selection of sculpting tools which were far more effective than using finger. This process took a long time and I'm sure there are many different sculpting techniques to learn which would require a lot of practice. We then scored a faint line down the side of the model to mark the mid point of it. This was for the next step. we got a large piece of clay rolled it so it came up to the halfway line then cut out a slot for our model. We then cleaned up the edges so no plaster could go in.we added four clay walls to this to stop plaster escaping the sides. Its important the walls are strong/think enough to withstand the weight of the plaster. Don then showed us how to mix plaster however I was already familiar with the process it is pretty simple. We then filled our casts with plaster making sure to tap the bubbles to the top.
We repeated the same process for the other side of the model to get the whole cast after the first lot of plaster had tried which takes 24hrs to properly dry out. A lot of time was spent waiting for the plaster to dry the foam we were going to use at the final stage sticks to wet plaster.
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