How to make a head out of clay.

Step 3 The first impressions

Take your Popsicle stick and press it into the clay twice to create the eyes and press once for the mouth. IT WILL END UP LOOKING LIKE AN ALIEN! Try to keep it the same as in the pictures. This part is essential for fine details later on. You start with the coarse details and end up with the fine ones. Do not press too hard nor too softly. Practice is what makes each head better. You may notice that in the fourth picture in this step, it looks vaguely that there is a nose there but from the side it looks flat. The next step involves making that nose look like a nose from all directions (except the nostrils which will come into play when we do the finer details).