AUTOBOTS 🤖
This entry is specially made for the clay at contest held by @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 @jacinta.sevilla}

In the process of making this I kept telling myself "this is so hard" cause the clay is so soft? Haha

I read about the contest yesterday and me and my brother @vocafrost immediately wanted to join! Im glad cause my brother is making so much effort to try art because of steemit 💋💋💋 merci steemit ☝️

_{@jacinta.sevilla with @vocafrost at SM CITY DAVAO.}

Hi everyone 🌷

Okay so we got our clay now! Im so excited.
However it's so hard to decide which anime/cartoon or comic character to draw. Good thing I was able to brave the challenges of sculpting machines haha.

TIMELAPSE VIDEO 📽️ Complete Process

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

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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.

SOME PROCESS PHOTOS 📸

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

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🎨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.
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_{add add add more}

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🎨 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.