Juggler Continued 5/25/2013

I'm going to try to keep this up as I go. Mostly as a guide to myself. I find that I am forgetting a lot of the details of making these projects (like what formulas I used and what materials. etc.) so if I write everything down here it will hopefully save me time in the long run.

So with that in mind, here are some pictures of what my juggler looks like now:

I used the armature that I started when I was going to make him a statue adding paper clay to the legs and torso. It was pretty unstable at first but dried rigid enough to work on. 

I know what I would like him to look like in my mind, now the hard part is getting the mechanisms to work and preserve the look i want. Ive already redone the skull several times using wireform and plaster paertowels. I figure I will cover the skull will paperclay leaving room for the mechanisms while making the outside look the way i want. By the way, I am using the new paperclay recipe the is posted on ultimate papermache.com, the "super smooth" one and it seems to be working. Ive been going back and forth trying to decide if I should just sculpt his head out of the clay ofr whether I should make a mold and cast it. Im sure if I sculpted it in super sculpey and made a flexible mold i would get a much better more detailed resulted, however, since this is a learning experience I think i will save that for another one and get on with combining the insides and the outsides of this one. I dont want to spend so much time on the details of this one if I cant get it to work.