Noses Noses Noses

As one of the most detailed fleshy parts of a wolf's body I have decided to concentrate on sculpting the nose. This will be one of the only exposed parts of the final sculpt. I have spent a few days trying different sculpting materials and different styles of wolf nose and textures.

So far I have tried; soft chavant, Airdry clay and Wed clay. I found the chavant quite slow going, but the results seem to hold a good amount of detail. The Airdry clay was very soft and quick to work with. However, getting detail into the clay was a little more tricky due to the responsiveness of the clay. The Wed clay I found to be very similar to the Airdry clay, it dried a little quicker and kept detail a little better but had a similar responsiveness to the Airdry clay.






I will now observe the moulding qualitites of the sculpting materials by moulding and casting each nose and comparing the quality of the results. I will hopefully from these tests be able to choose my final sculpting material.