Grade 9 - A humanoid figure

Now that you can work with wire and paper, we can start building our EXPRESSIVE human-like figure. 
You may work with accurate human proportions OR distort and exaggerate for expressive purposes.

Have a look at these two presentations to get some ideas and some tutorial help.

LINK to Basic Wire figures
LINK to Poses


This rough sketch may help you. It assumes a 16cm figure will fit into a tub and is called the 8-part figure. Remember to leave some wire for the thickened shoulders and hips.

Sketch by Mrs Moore

Criteria - for 25 marks

Construction skill
- no sticky tape, glue or staples used in the construction! [5]

Expression of a character [5]

Innovation / originality [5]

Final surface treatment e.g colour; texture; contrast; variety;  [5]

Presentation & effort [5]