How to Sculpt a Head of the Princess

In this video, I will show you the complete process of making a small sculpture - a head of the princess. Here’s her profile cut out with a scalpel. It has a very interesting shape of which I will tell you a bit later.
I used a wooden support to put some plaster on top. So far, the head has a very approximate shape. The most important thing is that this plaster has to be within the boundaries of the profile. You can see that a small margin left all around the head.
Here’s the Hard Monster Clay I will be using for sculpting. It is sulfur free, which is very important because I will make silicone mold for casting later on. Even a small amount of sulfur will prevent silicone from drying and the whole sculpture can be spoiled with never hardening silicone.
While I’m sculpting, I will tell you a few words about this project. Not so long ago, I traveled to Berlin to visit several art museums. In one museum, I was very much impressed with an ancient head of the princess, made of brown stone. I liked that portrait so much that I decided to make a similar style sculpture placed on a cube. The model for this sculpture is a young princess, the daughter of Akhenaten and Nefertiti, who were the rulers of Egypt more than 1300 years BC. The pharaoh Akhenaten had six daughters with Nefertiti; this will be a portrait of one of them. Nefertiti is known not only as an Egyptian Queen, but also for her beauty. Her name means “the beautiful one has come”. So, I have to make a portrait of her daughter to be not just stylish, but attractive as well. In case you wonder why this head has such a strange shape, this was a fashion at that time for ruling families. A pharaoh had to be different from common people and this difference was cultivated and shaped in many ways. One of the features was a deformed skull. When a child was born into a pharaoh’s family, the child's head was bandaged in such a way that the skull grew to the back of the head, so by adulthood, the pharaoh’s head was very much different from everyone else. We can see such skulls in mummies, as well as in ancient sculptures and murals.
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