Here we have three shots of the finished sculpture. The last image shows
a bit more muzzle detail. You can see the light wrinkling we put into
her full lip. This gives the piece a much more realistic look. The trick
is to put the lines in and, again, use the alcohol and a fairly firm
brush to brush first with the direction of the lines and then across
them. The same goes with the tongue.

Once I'm done, I always try the wig I'll be using ON the sculpture.You
don't have to make it fit tight on the lifecast so as not to mar the
sculpture. Just set it as close as possible on the head in the position
you'll be wearing it. This helps to give you a little bit of feeling of
success and you start to see your critter coming to life. *smile* As you
can see in the one photo, I held her ears up on it too, hoping to get a
feel for that, too.

I know I'm repeating an image here
but notice how far back the
sculpture goes This is a good
distance. Over your ears and a bit
past your own natural hairline.
David's hairline is a bit high.
*smile*

Before you do the actual casting
of the sculpture, you do a last
light alcohol brushing over the
whole thing and then you wait at
least 12 hours for the clay
sculpture to set before actually
laying any plaster onto it. This
is important. If you then began

putting plaster onto the clay
before it has set from the
alcohol, you may lose some much
desired fine detail.

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