Addendum notes: This sculpt has given me more headaches than any other. No matter what I do, it still doesn't look like Sarah. Yeah, if the moon and sun were in perfect alignment and I squint REALLY hard, I could see traces of Sarah in that sculpt. However, something is still off and I can't put my finger on it. The lower lip needs to be a little more full and I might need a paint wash to highlite the eyelids, but the #1 problem is still the eyes.

The sculpt above is actually my third try and IMO it doesn't looks any better than the previous two. At this point, I'm ready to give up and proceed to her current look which has more distinquishing features ... either that or sculpt her with a smile expression because she has a very distinquishing smile.

Hopefully, you'll recognize this as Sarah Michelle Gellar, Buffy the Vampire Slayer. My scanner is on the fitz so features like striated lips highlites/ shadows don't show up very well. I'll try to take some manual photos and repost. Anyways, looking at Sarah, you should notice that she has a roundish head, pointed chin and very smooth cheek and jawbone structures. Her nose is straight but has a tiny bump/ knob at the tip. When I started the project, I assume that it would a quick and easy sculpt because of her smooth facial features. However, without distinquishing features, you have to do a very accurate job of capturing her facial proportions or else it won't look like her. At certain points alone the process, the head sculpt actually looked more like Kelly Martin (ER), who also has very similar features. The main differences between the two actresses are the eyes and exact distance from nose to lip and lip to chin. This was the first time I had to use calibers to measure exact millmeter distances instead of just eyeing it out. After getting the distances worked out, the rest of the head went pretty quickly. The head took about 1 - 1.5 hrs to sculpt, 10 minutes to clean up and about 30 minutes to paint ..... dam I'm beginning to hate painting eyelashes. The hair doesn't look right to me, but that one of the problems you face by using synthetic fibers instead of just sculpting it on. First off, I had to buy curly dirty blonde hair since they don't sell straight hair. To straighten out the hair, I wrapped the curly hair around a wooden board, put a wet towel over it and ironed for 10 secs on the #2 (aka Nylon) setting. I'm tempted to make another cast and sculpt on the hair to compare with the synthetic hair look.

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