hey guys has a gun I put together thislittle video to show you guys how the wedding cakefigures turned out for my friends AJ and Christina's wedding a both are really gifted musician so theywant their figures to be holding their insurance so AJ has guitar and christina has her file then chose todo it and Amanda slash and a missile becausethat's why favorite style and this is the making ofso for tools and materials wanna run through a user is super skopjefirm which is the gray version up theScottish family have clay on that status of the TV kit so here we have some gauge wire copper wire they can find at Michaels orJoanns and that's gonna be use for the Skeltonhave the fear I make sure you have pliers to work withthe wire and for sculpting tools just you knowjust basic stuff nothing fancy a lot of these look like dental tools so the first thing I did was drawn toscale what I'm the figure with that like so I didplay a cartoony version Anna slightly realistic version and ended upchoosing this version which is sorta if I think in between kind over design and the reason I tried to scale is because you gonna make the scouts and I love the wire so is our fires and he'sgot a matchup the the skull or armature and youwanna sculpts the head the reps and the hips and onceyou've done that matches all up to your trying you makesure you check the box and the peking instructions I think it's
for this one and I guess depends on howthick the clay is but and I can remember offhand how long itwas a big hit but here's the baked piece a clay and it's pretty hard but shouldn't dothat because I think shatter it's pretty hard so once you'vedone that the head the I am ribs and hips you wanna put inthe rush the bones for the arms and legs and be sure to leave the copper showingfor the joints because in the next step we're going to takethis armature and you gonna poser character so just like a puppet you gonna bend the wire and make sure you in a look at the figure from every angle and makesure the the curves are right and angles areright and when she finds the pose that try to capture like for AJI have him can have with his right and hand up in the air with the guitar pick onceyou find your the post that you like you when I getsome so the clay and just with very thinlayers you can apply it to the copper and yougonna cover pretty much all the copper and thereason you want to keep the Clayton then is because well as tworeasons one its its quicker to bake the thinnerthe clay the quicker is to bake and two you gonna addmore layers so you know create one clay layer and Arabic it's gonna be hard and thenon top of that when it's nice and stable you can add avery thin layer we gonna skelton details so scams using the the dental tool to prance and clay and thisis what it looks like when you have added the clay to most the figure youcan see that he still not his full size that becauseI know that i'm gonna keep adding more layers for detail andthe neck is still and the copper so showing because I wantto make sure that the head has the right till an angle to it beforeI i'm make a solid so I'll once you reach thestage you can attach your figure to some cork so your fingerprints won't go on thefinger we want to do is leave some copper on coming out his feet so you can stickinto the cork and just make sure that you're alwaysI'm rotating your figure making sure checking all the angles seethat looks right and next year liking so he had done some consider cancer but work on thehead just kinda meet some indentations for the guys and spree much work on the face Ihave an early added the hair anything yet on this morn justpoking out on the basic anatomy I guess so here you can see that I've added athin layer a clay to his front for his vast detailsthere and the tape is used to hold up the brake light the jacket as it bakes because I without it I think about todroop so here's AJ's figure I've used a Sharpiepen to use just com I just mark the clay C&C the eyes I know I did that I guess I can see the expression other but I am here's a workout work in progress have Christina's figureI built are exactly the same way as it did ages starting with the armature then blockingher up I'm she has legs under that dress and so after her figureestan actually made a pattern of paper like areal I guess fashion designer wrapped it around and then a match theclay to it I just pressed it out and wrapped around her and ship that andI think they recite them so the guitar for AJ sayers Christina comida some work on her mouth but Ithink I messed up so I A and it up to carving out I'm gonna putmore clay in to to fix it and is using some tape tohold it for hair getting her ready for baking she's holding her violin the violin isas a separate peace I just made it so that she holds it andthey can rest on her shoulder com and why did that but I did so moving on to the next shot and we can see that homes there's like server texture to the figure that'sbecause once you get everything big and you likehow it looks then you can use some sandpaper youstarting with russian going all the way through the fine unionists and all all the surface I V figures and that makesit really smells and I'll look really nice for pain so there's AJ he's looking pretty much done and here is the guitar and the blackchip PC on the on the table there that I got from a shopping bag serve acardstock an I'm gonna cut then keys to that and it'sgoing to be the strap for the guitar so it's actually gonnawrap around his shoulder and hang on a shorter and as soon as its focus isyou can see the the hook image so the black strap all have a hook just look in there anddiscourse shelter miss desk Anderson Sam paper you get from Home Depot forsure any hardware store and hear the figures theyare pretty much done in see they have the instruments her beau is also a free piece that justfits in here and and balances on top of theviolin and you can see AJ strapped it bookswith the copper same copper is for the armature goesaround her shoulders can see how it comes over his back and fix at thebottom of the car so ages holding a pic and they're both kinda rockin out play music together so once you've reached this stage and its everything's big scary thingshardened I got some I house paints primer and sprayed it all over the figure outside of course and the reason you dothis is I don't think s so that the acrylic whether is your time sticking to thefear and when you're painting flash I'm you wannamake sure that the base coat is nice and bright and white as thebrightest so the flesh tones will be very bright I painted on the grey the colors wouldbe darker thing so this is what palette am it keeps theacrylic a nice and wet for have days later avery long time is basically a sponge they put water into it and there'sparchment paper on it richer click on it and it'll stayworkable so for very long time soon have to keepremixing your pain says aging looks like with some primer and literally basic acrylic Sta I think fancy just regular russia's annex we have our own more other figures just very close to beingdone is here put in the skin tone just make sense of last gotsome blush on their cheeks to bring out some up warmth totheir face and here's a quick shot I took my camera I iapologize I don't have anything bigger but I try to make his guitar and acousticguitar because his guitar like that and try to make it you know as accurateas I can and maybe in the next shot conceived on theviolin and you those black little squiggly filigree looking things so I really happier with the way itturned out and a it was a big hit at the wedding andthe best part was that Asian Christina really like that so thatmaybe really happy as this is a once in alifetime opportunities so home swish aging Christina all the best Anna justmany many happy years to come for them there to my really good friends and itwas a great day to be there at their wedding so I hopethis video was fun to watch and give you some ideas about how we can make figureslike this on for yourself or maybe for yourfriends or family I guess so that's about it Paseo nexttime