How To Sculpt The Mouth

The other day a few students asked me to show them how to sculpt a mouth.

Now, I have been thinking of how to show this feature off for over a year now. I had looked at Edouard Lanteri, at Lucchesi and all over the web to find a way that would show off the following items that I think are crucial to understanding the structure of the mouth:

• The teeth are primary
• The upper lip is composed of three ovals
• The lower lip is composed of two equal sized ovals
• The line of the lip is NOT in the same place as where the bottom and top teeth meet
• The flesh of lips and the muzzle of the mouth has a surprising thickness that is on top of the teeth

So, starting with a fresh perspective, I sat down to show them the elements that I think are important to understand about the mouth and came up with, what I think is, a pretty cool demonstration of the various components that make up the barrel of the mouth.

Please note, that I made heavy use of the Clay brush. When you see me make sharp, incised lines in the model I used the Standard brush and Alpha 39 on ZSub.

I hope you enjoy it.