I made sure with this sculpt to have the grain of the wood running from the top of the head to the bottom of the chin so that it was easier to carve the detailing into the face. It worked! I was able to control the tools alot better and create something which looked a lot more like my designs!
Once I was happy with the sculpt, I stained it roughly with coffe and then added pencil to the deeper crevices in the wood.
Perfect size!:
I then added pins for his eyes and glued on the book pages which I then filed away roughly again. Et voila!
After my meeting with the stop motion technician I tried out her different suggestions for eyes in my balsa wood head:
Dowling balls
I quite liked these but they are too round in terms of what I want the aesthetic to look like.
Black pins - raised out of head
I really liked the suggestion of using pins and in particular thought the black pins raised out of the head worked particularly well.
Black pins - set in head
White pins - raised out of head
White pins - set in head
| Staining test.
| Staining
I wanted to try and stain the wood so as to give a bit more definition around specific features. After a coffee break I saved a bit of coffee at the bottom of my cup so as the use this to paint onto the wood. It worked ok but as the wood is very absorbent it tended to expand over the area I wanted it to be so I had to cut more of the wood back afterwards.
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I've started to carve a head out of balsa wood, it was a material suggested to me that might work well in a previous feedback session.
Here's how I got on:
| | I really liked working with the wood, the only problem I came across which I didn't realise when I had started was that I was carving the wrong way into the wood. I had positioned the grain at the front where his face is so would do this again with it on top so as not so affect the carving. I'm not sure if this will be the material I will use yet, I still want to test other methods. The two main concerns I have for the balsa wood are whether the detail of the face will show up well under camera and what I will do about the eyes. I shall test these both!
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