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BABAJI IN PROGRESS
 Ah. . .they always look pretty decent at this stage. . .no measurements, just eyeing things up and slapping the clay on here and there (a lot of artists make the mistake of thinking, "well, it looks pretty good this way so I don't think I'll need to do any measuring, I'll just go with it as it is. . ." This is an excellent shortcut to having serious regrets later on when it's out there in a permanent medium for everyone to see.) Shortly after I took this photo, I had the brilliant idea to shorten his neck and move his head (which I thought I had a pretty good start on) and the armature wire snapped inside his throat. *gasp* One step forward. . .15 steps backwards. . .Had to strip off all the clay on his head and neck and figure out some clumsy but useable way to reattach the wire so I could keep going. That can be a big problem with reusing armatures. . .it's hard to remember from piece to piece just how many times each wire has been bent back and forth!  O.K. his head is reattached. . .It's not looking the greatest anymore but. . .eh, what can you do? Didn't take photos of detached head. . .too traumatized at the time, sorry. Busy using the notched edge tool to do some serious shaping overall. 
 Large pins not for unorthodox acupuncture sculpting technique. . .they're marking the center of the horse and helping me make both sides of his head level with each other. . .for some reason, his head is all crooked. . .I can't imagine why . . .*ahem* 
 O.K. here he is with his basic shape and attitude intact. Also noteworthy is the overblown paperclip wire scaffolding I added for his ears. . .probably a bit excessive, but I knew his ears were going to involve more attention than most and I wanted to be sure he had a firm support system under there as I worked! (Thank goodness I did this BTW as those ears were HARD! I sculpted them and REsculpted them so many times I thought I was going to lose my mind!) I'm sorry that I didn't continue to take pics as he got closer to being finished but I was so pressed for time that I had to just put my nose to the grindstone and forget about documentation! I spent SO much time doing research that I almost ran out of time to sculpt this boy! Oops! Here he is all finished and ready for the mold. . .o.k. well I did make a few changes in the couple of hours before the silicon went on. . .mostly to his leg tendons. . .    
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