Sculpting the Heads

The first step was to make sure that I could capture a good likeness of the character based on the actors playing them in the films. Once I started sculpting the faces, the first thing I realized was... "I had to become a better sculptor in order to pull this off".

By the end of my troubles, I end up with what amounted to a bunch of doll-heads modeled in hardened Sculpy clay. These were the end product of several sculpting attempts and "bad" heads that I threw away. I kept at these until I had 9 character heads that I was happy with: