A dog is undoubtedly the most common and beloved by a person's pet. For a long time these friendly animals served people. From this article you will learn how to mold a dog from plasticine with your own hands.
Materials and Tools
Before you mold a dog from plasticine, you must carefully select materials and tools. Especially, this applies to those cases when you are engaged in professional modeling and want to make a cast of your work.
For children's creativity, it is best to buy a simple plasticine, which can be seen in any clerical department. Firstly, it is inexpensive. And secondly, it is colorful.
Also stock up on stacks. And in order not to stain the table in clay, buy a special plastic board. Perhaps in the process of sculpting you will also need a wet rag, as sometimes plasticine stains the skin of the hands.
How to make a plasticine dog with a child?
If you are going to sculpt with your child, then it is not necessary to create a realistic animal. The main thing is that the lesson should be liked by the child and be interesting. Therefore, take colored plasticine and choose the colors that your child likes best.
First blind the body with the neck. You can immediately form the body, neck and head from one piece. Then, from four small balls, make paws and stick them to the body. Brush the edges. Take the stack and mark them with the fingers on the paws. Then stick the tail made of thin sausage. Do not forget about the ears. Stack out the mouth. Blind eyes from two small balls of black color. You can take a toothpick and make the texture of wool. The dog is ready!
We sculpt a volumetric figure of a dog with a frame?
And now you will learn how to mold a dog from plasticine in stages. First decide on the size of the future figure. If you are thinking how to mold a large-sized dog from plasticine, then you may need to create a base of wire and foil. To do this, first make a wire frame, then wind the crumpled pieces of foil to it. So your figure will be more durable and stable.
Then carefully glue the frame. Do it in layers. It will be very good if you take the anatomical atlas and focus on it. So your dog will be very realistic and beautiful. Do not forget about the eyes. After you blind your eyes, make thin eyelids. You will then work them out in more detail.
After you have made the first “muscle” layer, proceed to the skin and coat. Firstly, if your dog is bald, then smooth the space between the muscles. Secondly, at this stage, you can begin to sculpt wool. To make the coat realistic, use a variety of tools. For strands, you can take stacks with balls at the ends, and for working out wool, you can use a simple needle or a toothpick. Now you know how to mold a dog from plasticine.
And what else can you do with a plasticine figure?
So you made a dog and you liked it. But, as you know, plasticine is short-lived. A figure made of it may fall to the floor and wrinkle or melt in the heat. In addition, dust sticks to plasticine. Therefore, a particularly successful plasticine figure can be pasted with scraps of newspapers or paper. Use PVA glue. Layers need to be made two or three. Then cut the figure in half and remove the clay from it. Glue the figure back and glue it with a few more layers of paper. Such a figure will serve you much longer. In addition, it can be decorated.
We hope that now you understand how to mold a dog from plasticine. If desired, plasticine can be replaced with polymer clay, which after baking becomes strong and hard to the touch.