Paper Mache for Beginners: Sculpt a Colorful Character
Creating Your Underlying Structure and Armature 1
A course by Sarah Hand , Artist, Author, and Teacher
About the video: Creating Your Underlying Structure and Armature 1
Overview
“In this lesson, I will teach you how to recreate your character drawing on a foam core board and cutting it out. ”
In this video lesson Sarah Hand addresses the topic: Creating Your Underlying Structure and Armature 1, which is part of the Domestika online course: Paper Mache for Beginners: Sculpt a Colorful Character. Illustrate friendly characters full of hopes and dreams using simple paper mache techniques.
Partial transcription of the video
“Creating Your Underlying Structure and Armature Now I'll teach you about creating your underlying structure or armature for your sculpture. Now that you have your character design, we'll want to transfer that picture to a foam core board. There's nothing fancy to how I transfer my character design to the foam core. I just look at my sketch and then draw it on the foam core. You'll want to think about how big you want it, so I think my is gonna fill up this piece. It's, I think, an 11 by 14 piece. Any size is fine, but you'll want to think about the size as you draw. So, I'll draw that big o...”
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Course summary for: Paper Mache for Beginners: Sculpt a Colorful Character
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Areas
Art Toys, Character Design, Creating with Kids, Toy Design, Traditional illustration
Sarah Hand
A course by Sarah Hand
Sarah Hand is a Virginia-based artist, author, teacher, and paper mache enthusiast. As a self-taught, lifelong maker of things, she has always been creative, but it was a puppet show which first sparked her interest in paper mache. The experience kick-started her career as an artist and has since taught children and adults alike how to express themselves through paper mache.
Sarah currently hosts paper mache workshops at the Visual Arts Center of Richmond and the Virginia Museum, of Fine Arts. Her work has been exhibited at several galleries, and she recently published a book with publishing group Quarto Creates in which she shares her step-by-step guide to using paper mache to create sculptures with personality.
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