HOW TO SCULPT A LITTLE BABY HEAD (ABOUT 1 ½ INCHES)

Your finished baby should be about 4 times the length of the head
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Take a small dowel and a stand

Crumple a piece of aluminum foil onto the end of the dowel and slowly form it into a skull shape

This is a picture of the Foil skull from the side. It is only about 1 inch from top to bottom

Take a pancake shaped piece of clay about ¼ inch thick. This is cernit clay but you can use any brand of oven baked clay.

Lay the pancake over the skull and gently press it down to the following shape.

Smooth this to look like the shape below.

Find the halfway mark from the top of the head to the chin

Then halfway mark between that mark to the chin, then the halfway mark from that one to the chin. The top line will be where the eyebrows are the middle line is the tip of the nose and the bottom line is the mouth.

Using a sculpting tool of some kind (I use a 3 in 1 tool from Jack Johnston) form the eyes. While forming the eyes the bridge of the nose and the eyebrows start to form.

Put the nostril holes in with some small pointed object like a tooth pick then use your sculpting tool to form the outside part of the nostrils.

Make a frowny slit halfway between the nose and the chin about the width from the corner of each eye.

Use your sculpting tool to form the upper by working the clay up and out and lower lip by working the clay down and out

work at it until everything is how you want it. Then cut the junky stuff off of the bottom

After it is all formed and the junk piece is cut off of the bottom add a fresh roll of clay to the bottom for a neck and form a groove to attach the body later

Take a flat piece of clay and cut it in half for the ears

Attach one of the pieces of clay to the side of the head and make a rough ear shape.

Use the sculpting tool to shape and detail the ear.

Side picture of the baked head

Picture of the baked unpainted head