The "Animal Head" project was a fun activity for me to practice the figurature of animal feature that I may not have known about. I chose to make a wolf's head, but I made a misshapen skull with the clay, and it looked like more of a dog. So from there I decided to make a dog's head instead. I was told that the heads were supposed to be expressive, and with the wolf, the head would have had a growling tone to it. Now with the dog, I have a more positive approach, with even more movement in his expression. The expression for the dog is him sticking his head out of a car window. The viewer can see this in the movement of the ears and gums. After I captured the shape the next challenge was to create realistic fur on the dog. All I used was a thin, needle-type of tool the creative indentations on the clay, that of striking resemblance to fur. Now the piece is fired and awaiting a nice paint job... After painting my dog pet head I felt pretty satisfied with my work. The paint only took me a day, which I knew was going to be the easiest. All I had to do was math the color of my dog's fur to the coordinating spots, then dry brush the darks of the fur with a lighter color to give the fur affect. Not only did the paint make this head look realistic, but the way I textured the fur, and how I moved the direction of the fur to fit the contour, make this eve better.
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