Hi there and welcome back
to my channel and today i'm going to be
working on my first
subscriber request! I can't remember who
it was,
i'm ever so sorry, but i know that
somebody requested
harry potter some time ago now and it's
stuck in my brain
and i thought with the theme of going
back to school
and the beginning of autumn it was a
fitting
model to work with this week.
As a bit of a disclaimer i know
practically nothing
about harry potter i've not seen any of
the films
and i've not read any of the books and i
suspect
i'm the only person in the world
that hasn't, i tell a lie my partner
hasn't either,
so i don't know why i i've just never
been particularly drawn to it perhaps
i'm missing out though so
tell me if i am. So as always
i'm going to start with the face of the
model,
i'm loosely working with the daniel
radcliffe
interpretation of harry potter but
i don't want to go kind of too strict on
that
really to try and make things a little
easier on myself
because i'm not really used to making
such young people with
polymer clay so i'm sure all the
proportions are very different
facially so yeah i'm just gonna go with
my
my own interpretation loosely based on
daniel.
So now the face is done i'm gonna move
on to the base
and i think i'll give him a white base.
I'm not going to be giving any facts
today on harry potter as i
sometimes do with my process videos
because
if you're watching this video you're
probably a harry potter fan and there's
nothing new that i can tell you
but what i am interested in is the
story of its creator
jk rowling as harry potter was a real
labor
of love for her for you know a number of
years really
and its origins are really interesting
in how she came about creating it
because
i think she was living in portugal with
her ex-husband who you know didn't
sound like the nicest guy
in the world so she left
him with her daughter and went to live
in edinburgh
where she lived the life of a single mum
in her edinburgh flat
and she'd regularly go to the cafe
owned by her brother-in-law i believe
where she'd sit and write
harry potter because it was a lot warmer
really than her home
so she'd find herself there sort of most
days
working away and i find that really
inspiring.
The life of a creative artist of any
description or any background can be
really difficult
in terms of trying to keep going
and i think she received her fair share
of rejection letters
etc which i think every artist goes
through
to be honest it's never nice but it's
part of the process
but she stuck with it obviously and she
got published
i believe in 1997 and she became a
billionaire
within sort of ten years really which is
incredible
and yeah she's gone on to be just a huge
name
hasn't she, so that's really inspiring
and particularly for
female artists out there. i meant to say
actually i'm not on camera today because
i've still got some issues with my eyes
so i'm trying to reduce
the amount of time i spend on the
computer really or looking at screens so
hopefully i'll be back soon.
i have booked into the opticians now but
i can't get in until september
so hopefully they'll be able to suggest
a solution.
basically if you've not watched any of
my previous videos or most recent videos
i've got some digital eye strain going
on at the moment
which is pretty significant
um along with a few other health issues
so yeah i'm not
feeling my best at the moment but
fingers crossed
i'll get things sorted soon.
so daniel radcliffe is obviously a big
name
as a result of the harry potter series
of films
and i find it really interesting that
he's often mistaken for elijah wood
because i really can't see why
other than the fact they both play you
know huge names really
in harry potter and frodo baggins from
lord of the rings i guess at a similar
time.
so now i'm moving on to little harry
potter's
tie and i've noticed that there's
various
iterations of his tie design and i'm
assuming
that's because he goes to you know
primary school and then
secondary school but i you know i might
be completely wrong on that so let me
know if i
am but i'm going with a younger version
of harry potter so the younger
images of him or the younger images of
daniel radcliffe
playing him have this design here so
yeah that's what i'm going with for my
model
and now i can move on to his uh
robe or his cape
so i've just got some black fimo here
and i use fimo professional clay if
you're interested
in what i use, incidentally i do have a
list of the tools that i use
pretty regularly down below in
description so
by all means go and take a look at those.
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if you choose to purchase anything but
that's entirely up to you
and if you've not come across my channel
before
and this is the first video that you're
watching i'm lizzie
and i'm a polymer clay artist
and illustrator and i make weekly videos
about my
polymer clay sculptures such as little
harry potter here
and i occasionally make tutorials and
the odd
kind of creative studio vlog as well so
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noise on this channel my studio's on
quite a busy road so you'll invariably
hear
uh different kind of traffic noise often
trucks and
uh and the occasional tractor but i do
my best to edit those out where possible.
so i've decided to give my little harry
sculpture a prop
in the form of a spell book or i'm
assuming
it's a spell book anyway.
so i'm making a red cover here so
i was going to give him a wand as well
but actually i think that would be too
cluttered
and also you know i need to ensure that
my model's gonna bake
well so yeah it's just the spell book
and i did tinker with it a little more
uh by the time that i put it on the
model,
basically it was a bit too thick really
and i wanted to ensure that
it would just bake well on the
model.
so i'm adding just a little bit of
detail here on the front of the book
with some bronze fimo effects
clay i think it is so
i'm gonna add the arms to little harry
potter here
and it's really looking like a school
uniform now isn't it.
so i decided against adding any wire
to the book because i didn't want it
popping through
by accident really because that would be
you know a bit of a nightmare to try and
resolve if it
if it pops through so i'm doing my best
here just to try and attach it to the
model with his hands
and i think they should act as a a good
enough support really.
so to finish off i'm going to add his
hood and i'm keeping it as simple as i
can really because
i found in the past that the more
detailed
the hood is the messier it
looks really
so it's just best to give an impression
of a hood really.
and i'll finish off with this little
badge which is a very simplified
version of the design because i use
coloured polymer clay.
so now i'm going to move on to creating
his glasses and i've got some black
craft wire here so it's just a case of
wrapping it around
the brush that i have here which is the
largest
implement i could find really to
to wrap them around but i think they're
of an okay
size actually, i don't think they need to
be too big
against his eyes.
so now i've done that i can move on to
his hair
and i've just got some basic brown clay
that's i mixed myself
and this is always a time-consuming
process but
i have to say this was pretty time
consuming because
i just found it was just quite
difficult to do,
i think working with 
young people
is very different to creating adults
so it was
a bit of a learning process for me.
so here was the first attempt but i went
on
again behind the camera to to rework the
hair so
this was my second version and yeah i'm
pretty happy with the model, it's not my
best ever model i have to say but
nevertheless i think you can really tell
that it's harry potter so
i may well go on to create a little fan
art poster
at some point, we'll see, but if you do
have any suggestions
of who you'd like to see me make at any
point
by all means let me know below but i
think between now
and the end of october i'll be working
on a lot more halloween themed
models so stay tuned for those. take care
and i'll see you next time. bye
bye.
