AUTOBOTS 🤖
This entry is specially made for the clay at contest held by Hive account@josejirafa!

I used a screwdriver because I forgot to buy carving tools and I bought some Play-doh.

I have always loved sculpting but I haven't sculpted in a long long time but it's great to start again.

The challenge this time is to mold our
Favorite cartoon character
Now I've watched transformers cartoons and movies and I love robots, machines and even considered taking up a course for college related to machines before in highschool.

👉Optimus Prime👈
I used the movie robot as reference since my mom suggested so 😅✌️
They laughed and said "let's see if she can do it"

Well, here it is!
They said it looked great. Phew!

_{Optimus Prime Clay Model by Hive account@jacinta.sevilla}

I am happy I could document the whole thing! Please do watch! It's all in here!

_{Music credits to Linkin Park: what I've done and New Divide}

Please feel free to comment and critique!

🎨Title: Optimus Prime

🎨Medium: Modeling Clay

🎨Materials: Clay, screw driver, clean sheet of paper, reference

⏳Duration: 2-3 hours

Incase any of you are wondering, I could not sculpt the whole body for a number of reasons
❌The clay is too soft
❌Too little clay
❌There is no support/ wire skeleton on a base for a proper standing sculpture to be made
❌ Limited colors

Although
Creating a half bust of Optimus:
☑️ Saves time
☑️ Helps more focus
☑️ Easier
☑️ Portable
☑️ Saves on clay

You can mix some colors to make a few gradations so you'll have more options on different shades if you plan on making one.

These are the very few I took and I'll give a brief explanation since It's all in the video!

🎨What did I do here?
I initially made an egg shape or oval of the face then I added pieces of clay and layering them.

We add, not subtract
Leonardo da Vinci used a big block of marble and started and chiseled it into the Pieta. Some sculptures work that way

Here I add layers to make a whole, we mold this way. Just a little subtraction later on for reshaping and details.

_{add add add more}

🎨 Add details and more parts
This clay is super easy to mold and you just rub it and the surface smoothens and its easy to stick and join parts together.

I used yellow clay instead of white to emphasize light and also to add color variation.

🎨Keep going

Do your best Jacinta!
You can opt to buy a clay which is harder so its more moldable into angular shapes and doesn't flatten easily.

Some layers join when I need them to be defined and separate.

☝️Be very careful☝️

Thankfully the canons were sturdy, almost killed me.
They fell after a few hours but it's okay.

📸Model box📸
I put it inside a model box. This box by the way was given to me by my ever so thoughtful bestie Hive account@fukumineko 🌷

Thanks! It helps a lot!

The following are the rest of the photos I took of my clay model

The lights are so nice 😅✌️

_{Opti's bust}

The light reveals true color, shape and sloppy works!

I wish I could do more details or maybe if I MADE A BIGGER ONE...
🤔💭

I'd make it more precise and not look like a birthday cake icing decor. Lol

That's done! 🎉🎊

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