Wheaten Terrier Ear Set

I  reset the ears per your request. Please indicate if they need further corrections. Please note we are only looking for over all ear proportions and settings.

Soft Coated Wheaten Terrier head sculpture

The head was reworked in order to match the most current images of Oxford the Soft-coated wheaten terrier.

Wheaten Terrier dog sculpture's head gets detailed

Today I added some of the detail on the head section.  The goal was to work on the overall hairlines to give it a realistic look.

Not sure how much hair I should place over the eyes.

Front view, the right side of the dogs face has not been detailed. Right now, I am working on the top and left side, once the client approves the left side of the face, I will work on the right side.

Diagonal view

Dog sculpture head detailing for the Soft Coated Wheaten Terrier

I finally detached the head from the body and adhered it to the tilting table. The tilt table allows me to access hard to reach areas.

The head section is still somewhat rough and will require several more passes in order to add the detail.

Tool used to add the hairline texture for this commission.

On the first pass I added somewhat rough hairlines to see if I was going to be happy with the overall look. Lucky for me it was a very hot day here; therefore, the clay was on the soft side for this procedure.

Just by viewing this image, I can already tell I need more relieve on the beard section.

Once I am happy with the over all look of the fur texture, I will add a few lose hairs over the nose and perhaps eye area (not sure yet)

Dog sculpture fur texture detailing

Here are some images of the texture I will be using for the Wheaten's coat. The texture will be revisited several times until the clay shavings are removed.

Dog sculpture final critique before detailing

Mike, please advise as to which shoulder your like best.

Once this phase is approved, I will detach the head and begin to create the coat hair throughout the entire body. Once the body and head are somewhat done, we will play around with the cocking of the head. If you already have a preference as to the direction of the head tilt. Let me know, this way I can have the beard slightly point into that direction (I need to pay attention to our law of gravity).

Mike, in conclusion if you have a higher resolution image(s) showing his coat pattern, please email; otherwise, I will use the images I have. Looking for sharp images. The last image in his show stance, was somewhat blurry. I other words, I could not make out some of the hair line patterns. Now if the three images used on the header of this page display the correct hair patter, let me know and I will use them as my studies. The only concern is that the images used at the time did not have the full show coat.

Clay dog sculpture of a soft coated wheaten terrier

This is the 3-4 coat of the clay brush up. The clay sculpture will undergo an additional two coats. The left rear leg does not look right; therefore, I will add more clay to the outer side of the leg in order to match the right rear leg. 

Once the over all confirmation is correct the intermediate detail will begin.