Eye detail
Refined final three
Set of reference sculpts
As I have used plastiline, I was able to further alter my sculpts to come up with more realistic crocodiles. I have also added detail to the inside of their mouths, adding ridges and a gum line. As these three sculpts varied so much, I also thought it important to make a range of bottom jaws, experimenting with different tongues and gum lines. The positioning and size of the teeth where the last consideration, which I have represented with small triangles of wire. By looking at my sculpts, I was then able to choose the best features from each to use in my final drawn design, which is to be coloured and edited in Photoshop.
My drawings were produced alongside the sculpts to help me see what would work in 3D. I found that my altering styles of drawing something could be hard to translate to clay. The blue sketch shown above is the first image I emailed to my client. I have consistently used this as reference throughout making, though the sculpts are in not exact replicas. By making sketch models, I was able to combine influences from all my reference imagery to come up with something new. For me, having a 3D reference for the construction stage is crucial as I can see the object from all angles. This gives me a far better reference point, rather than an image drawn in perspective.
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