Pirate-Cake #2! It’s been confusing to people, that they are called Pirate-Cakes, people keep asking if they are edible…(which would be cool, but they’re not!) they are sculptures of a line of characters I drew named pirate cakes after the stick figures my sister ( aka *Mary-Cakes!) draws! ^_^
Anyhow, this one was made using wire under his arms, legs & antlers and it came out much better than the dowels used for this one. I also used wooden beads for his eyes as opposed to plastic eyes. I wanted a more irregular shape to them and these worked well! I can’t seem to get the clay as smooth as I’d like it… I would really love to find a better way to make the basic shape… some sort of mold that I could use to keep them exact and not limit the addition of things like antler’s and such… not sure what medium would work best for that, but I am going to look into it.

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