You imagined riding a mouse all right; but you want to reproduce what you’re actually imagining… via your art project. Within this tutorial; I’ll show you how to make a sculpture of yourself riding a mouse,–along with some obstacles you’ve may encounter.
Making a sculpture of yourself riding a mouse isn’t just a fun project… it’s also fun for your imagination. Have you ever imagined riding a mouse, or have you ever find a large toy mouse to ride? In your imagination; you can really shrink yourself. If your imagine is like my imagination; you can use magic powers if you want! And that’s fun everybody.
Explore Other Creator’s Work First
There are many ways to format your sculpture of yourself riding a mouse. You can eather choose an animated version from your imagination, or almost a natural version what you’ve pictured earlier. You can also look up if there’s lots of ways of making a sculpture of yourself riding a mouse. Look up these kind of artwork created by everyday people,–depending on their culture. You can go to the art festival, or an art center to study these sculptures. It’s always a good idea to take a look of them to get an idea what does these sculptures really look like.
Keep researching at your local art show, or festival,–or look up artwork online. If you already discovered them earlier, but you’re actually looking up other sculptures from around the world; you can learn more about their projects. It can take lots of time.
Begin Your Project
All you need is the following:
- Modeling compound from your local craft store, or something similar.
- Paint pen and regular paint that is non-toxic
- Non-toxic gloss
- Paint brushes
- Additional tools (optional)
- Drying area for your masterpiece
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Start off with molding a body for your mouse; you may study pictures of mice that are real,–or animated. Whether if you imagined riding a mouse in your house. You can make your mouse’s body long or short. Be sure to use less material,–if you want to make 2 sets of sculptures.
Set your mouse’s molded body aside, and mold a tail for your mouse’s body. Again… it can be long or short. You can make it spiral if you want. Don’t go too thin,–otherwise it will break when painting later on. There are 2 preferences if your mouse’s tail wanted to be spiral in either direction. Just use your imagination…
Set the molded tail aside. And mold your mouse’s head. You can choose it to be animated,–with his/her ears on top of her head, or natural form.
Set his/her head what you’ve just molded aside. Mold his/her legs.
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Connect your mouse’s tail at one end, and his/her head at the another end. Be sure to connect them firmly. You can choose to set his/her head to an upright position (recommended), or pointing towards the ground. Don’t let it’s head point the wrong way.
Attatch his/her legs what you’ve just molded earlier. Place them under his/her body. You might need a little stand to enable it to stand on it’s legs. Once you’ve finished building your sculpture via the first stage, let it dry for a while.
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Build and place a figure of yourself on your mouse’s back. Varify if you as a sculpture is riding on his/her back correctly. Be sure to connect it firmly. Adjust riding preferences if needed.
Allow your work to dry at your safe location.
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Paint and gloss your masterpiece., and let it dry between paint jobs, and gloss jobs. If you gloss it in layers, and you confirmed your work is shiny enough, but you want to keep glossing overall; you can do it daily, but it will take lots of time. If you managed to gloss it without any trouble; you can let it dry for a long time.
Instructions
Take any of the modeling compounds from your local art store, or craft store,–where they sell art supplies, or if you have any existing supplies at home, start off with choosing how large what your sculpture you want. If your masterpiece is smaller; you can save more material. Whether if you’re a skilled artist, or a free-lancing artist who is doing this project as a living. You can use your imagination to work with your project.
Painting your work is optional, but it’s useful if you want to give your work a professional look. But it’s always a good idea to gloss your work to prevent it from losing paint overtime. This is useful to keep your work on your shelf displaying longer.
Follow these steps
You can also take pictures of your work to publish your image to your website. This is useful for some people around the world to see your work.
Tips
When making your sculpture; take some time. Always work at a bully-free/crime-free environment. Check with your local apartment complex manager to confirm if an apartment complex is safe. If you live in a city where is susceptible to criminal activities. Always keep your work safe in a secure location.
If you are working with your paint job for your work, use a paint pen to work at these small areas of your work.
Using non-toxic paint, and gloss is very important for safety. Avoid using conventional paint that isn’t non-toxic. Watch out for any signs of false labeling on most common bottles of paint. Alternatively; you can use a magic marker to color your art. If you managed to paint your masterpiece with a marker, and gloss it after that, but you managed to shine up your work without any trouble; you can let your work dry overnight.
Always let your work dry. Never allow anyone to tamper with your work. Bullies are the known individuals who were responsible of their acts,–not you. Bullies leave evidence! And you can proof is these bullies were responsible for damaging your work. If it takes place at your local school, report it immediately with your teacher, or find someone who will speak up for you.
You can share your idea with your friends who wanted to do it a different way. This is useful if you wanted to share your tricks with your projects.
