FREE TUTORIAL! concept art

Your first step for this project is to come up with concept art. It can be any style, any level. My concept art pictured is a traced rendering of my original that was far more detailed, but this gives you an idea anyway

Now you need to take the concept art and a piece of carbon paper and transfer it onto graph paper like the one below. using a different color i made out lines of the armature I had yet to build.

*You can skip this step in your own sculpture if you choose. It just depends on if you want an exact replica of the concept art. For paper sculpting it is best to have an armature of some sort. It can be made from whatever you chose provided it is water proof.

 After you map out the armature then you must size your graph. You can make each square one inch or one foot and anywhere in between.  Based on the size I wanted I made every 6 squares a foot. (odd I know LOL) My armature is made of semi-flexable copper pipping, jointed with copper fittings.  The graph will tell you how big each piece of copper will be, keeping the proportions of the sculpture intact.

Next I will cut the copper pipe to the specified sizes in the diagram.