Build Your Own Ecorché | Part 7: Forming the Skull and Applying Lower Leg Muscles

[New Masters Academy]

In this series, you will learn how to create your own ecorché sculpture from scratch with artistic anatomist, Rey Bustos. In this seventh lesson of the series, Rey will show you how to form the skull of the ecorché. He will then finally begin applying the first set of muscles in clay to the ecorché: the lower leg muscles.

Materials

• 1 3/4″ Circle Template
• Art Alternatives Armature (Aluminum) Wire – 1/8″ Inch
• 24 Gauge Steel Wire
• Super Sculpey Clay – Original Beige
• Shop Cloth
• Super Sculpey (II or III) Chocolate
• Zap-a-Gap Super Glue – Medium CA+
• Baking Soda
• Electrical Tape
• Circular Wooden Base
• Small Wooden Clay Tools
• X-Acto Knife
• Flexible Metal Modeling Palette
• Petroleum Jelly
• Staple Gun
• Krylon Color Master Spray Paint – Almond
• Needle Nose Pliers
• Slip Lock Pliers

[meredith]

I have two more questions:

How much of the beige sculpey should we flatten for the bones?

and

How many packets of the chocolate sculpey will we need?

[Wayne Studio]

The Transcript is totally wrong, Im in the Skull section!

[Daniel Daigle]

Hello Wayne, Thank you for pointing this out. I have forwarded the issue along to my team member that handles transcripts

[Author]

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