Doing some old-fashioned sculpting with oil-based clay today, trying to get a better read on Grumpy Squirrel’s facial shapes. His current virtual incarnation doesn’t register a pouty scowl properly from all angles, so I’m roughing it out with real media.

It’s my first clay sculpt in a while. I discovered something new about how to build a cartoon squirrel nose today, so that’s kind of cool. I don’t know if I’m going to refine this too much more – it was really just to get an idea of how to shape a frowning mouth that frowns whatever way you look at it.