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I started work on another figure.  I’m still working on the little House Elf fellow, I just got to the point where I don’t have anything else to do with clay on him, and working with the clay helps relax my fingers after a long day of typing, so I started another figure to help me ease the tension out of my fingers.

I’m not sure what the new figure is going to be.  I had started out with a plan in mind, however, when I began trying to make the face it did not look right.  Nose too long.  Scrap and rebuild.  Mouth too low. Scrap and rebuild.  Eyes too close together and too high.  Scrap and rebuild.

The figure is in the basic layers stage now, preceding when I begin applying the clay to build the features, so I am taking a little time to think about what I want the figure to look like before I try this one more time.  If it fails to look right this time I am just going to forget the predefined figure idea and go with whatever it is that the clay is trying to force me to make instead.  Might be interesting.