Name: How to Model (Sculpt) a Polar Bear in Clay - Narrated
Uploaded: 2017-06-07T02:18:48.000Z
Duration: 6 min 4 s
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Hello my friends and welcome to another Tuesday of tutorial!

I am Leonardo Pereznieto and today we will model a polar bear in clay.

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These are the tools that we will be using.

The sculpture will not be in full detail, it will be

Then we wrap it, forming a sort of cylinder.

Our bear will be sitting, so let´s add some clay for the hind

And we start carving out the shape, taking some clay from the top…

I will take off some of clay from the head and from the neck.

Although our bear, I think is looking more like a seal right now [laughter].

We add some clay on the back for the shoulder blades,

they pop up because there is a lot of weight, supported

We make a line... the back leg is only arriving to this point.

And we build it front one by adding clay, and then rounding it a bit.

We form the first paw and let´s model the legs on the other side.

It´s pretty rounded when it is on this position.

And the upper part sticks out to the side.

The part of the chest between the two front legs, goes in.

On the upper part there is --ah-- fluffy skin [laughter].

To sculpt this, I have several reference photos, and even a polar

bear video that I´m watching because unlike in a drawing or painting

where you can solve it with one picture, here you are modeling from every

angle, 360 around and even from the top and underneath. So you need

Maybe artists that are more familiar with this beautiful animals

The snout is a bit like a tube or rectangle, and then the head is wider.

As I mentioned in my recent tutorial about how to draw a polar bear

made of ice, because of expected habitat loss, caused by climate change

the polar bear is classified as a vulnerable species

Behind the eyes there is a bone that protutes a little bit, we add this.

And we add a little bit here... and then smudge it.

this metal tool is actually a Dentist tool [laughter].

While this wooden one, with a wire… that is for sculpting

The list of materials is in the description under the video.

At least they look fluffy I am sure, they are so strong.

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Ok, we are done with the bear I´ll take it off to make the base.

I´m making a flat iceberg which will be the base for the bear.

The idea is as if he were floating on this little iceberg.

As you see I also use a painting spatula to do straight cuts.

Large or also can be small, like the texture on the ice.

And this wooden knife which is my favorite tool!

Since it is harder to model the bear with the head turning, I modeled it straight,

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