Sculpting a bust with air dry clay… a FIRST attempt!! ✨

So in this video I'm going to be attempting to sculpt a bust with air dry clay and I just want to start by saying I've never actually sculpted anything before or used clay of any kind so I'm aware that I'm throwing myself in the deep end with trying to sculpt a human head but I got gifted this clay for Christmas and I've been putting off doing anything with it because I truly don't know what I'm doing so I thought the best way to learn is just to give it a go and then if I enjoy the process even if the outcome's not great maybe I could try again with some higher quality clay because it's not it's nothing special. I don't know why I'm acting like I don't know how this goes I've already done it and I'm filming this intro so I'll see you at the end and let you know my thoughts No you'll get it in your eye and then you'll get cancer I'm not sure how much I've said already because this is the first thing I'm filming but I've got my base for the bust and with my minimal research I think I watched one video and realised I don't have wire I don't I'm just going to use foil and I've got my little MDF circle and I'm going to hot glue the foil in a ball on this and I've got wine I don't usually have wine but we're celebrating because I just got my MRI results I don't know why we're celebrating because I have a bulging disc it was my mum's idea and I'm not going to say no what is this like the underpainting the the basic structure that I'm going to be packing clay onto I've got this like basic starter pack like a sculpting starter pack that I got for Christmas as well as my air dry clay I'm going to put this down on the surface because I feel like this is going to get messy and then I've got a bowl for some water and I'm just going to wing it I'm just going to play with some clay and see what happens I've also got my portrait reference that I got from lovelifedrawing.com they do like really good selections of reference packs so I've just found a portrait pack and it's got the head from all different angles which I'm going to need oh it's a lot harder than I thought it would be it's like really really hard and rubbery I don't know if I'm supposed to um mold it first like warm it up a little bit and then stick to it I think that would be probably better because then I can mold it better god I have no idea what I'm doing okay so I spent some time molding it and now it's a lot more pliable I think that's the word if you can see that okay I guess I'm just gonna stick it on thing is my hands are already aching and I've got to do this so much okay I think we can call this a failure honestly I think it has potential and I I feel like I could make this work if the clay wasn't dry already like it's so firm I can't even mold it anymore and also I've run out of clay so I know this is not the shape of a normal human head but I I was planning on doing the hair with more clay but there is no more what do I do with it now it's kind of scary I don't want this sitting around the studio looking at me look at that so for some reason as it's dried it's got these huge cracks in it so if anyone knows why that's happening um please feel free to let me know in the comments because I did really enjoy this process and I would like to give it another go now that I've got a better idea and I know how much clay actually takes to make a head of this size I really underestimated that so this is basically just my chance to say that if anyone knows what they're doing or has experience with like clay or air dry clay please let me know because I'd love to learn more about how you're actually supposed to do it or if I did anything majorly wrong or was along the right sort of lines so thank you for watching and there might well be a part two because now that I know that I enjoy the process I might enjoy putting in a bit more research and effort to try and create something that's not gonna haunt me thanks for watching bye also I just want to say I've started work on the biggest oil painting I've ever done this is the corner of it here um so hopefully the next video will be the creation of this piece um if it all goes well but I'm really excited about it so stay tuned