Stripes - Tiger

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Free Mini Tutorial!

Tools and equipment!

Gel colours

Orange

Flesh

Black

Sugarwhizz tutorial - How to model a Tiger

Modelling Paste

235g - Orange

35g - Black

15g - Flesh

1g - White

Tools -

PME Balling tool

PME Dresden tool

Rolling pin

Small paintbrush for gluing

Small paintbrushes for painting.

Sharp knife

Paint palette

Small amount of clear alcohol for painting

Cool boiled water (for gluing things together)

Small food safe dowel.

Cocktail sticks

Food safe skewer

Step one - Body

Take 100g of orange modelling paste and roll into a teardrop shape.

Sit the paste on the work surface and gently bend and smooth the top upas shown. (Side view)

Take 5g of flesh coloured modelling paste, roll out to a thickness of around 1 mm. Take a sharp knife and trim to the shape shown.

Wet the back of the flesh paste with a small amount of water and stick into place as shown. Gently rub your finger along the edge to smooth the edge of the paste.

Use the end of a cocktail stick to texture the paste. Start at the bottom and work your way upwards.

Step two - Legs

Take 35g of orange modelling paste and divide equally into two. Roll each piece into a short teardrop. Narrow slightly at one end by rolling the paste between your thumb and finger to create the foot. Bend the foot up.Push out the heel and smooth with your fingers. Again roll the paste between your thumb and finger to narrow the ankle and lengthen the leg slightly as shown.

Use the veining end of the Dresden tool to mark the toes. Use the large end of the balling tool to gently indent the sole of each foot as shown.

Stick the legs into place as shown. Take 2g of flesh paste divide into two and roll into balls for the soles of the feet. Stick into place and texture as before.

Take 35g of orange modelling paste and divide equally into two. Roll each piece into a short teardrop. Narrow slightly at one end by rolling the paste between your thumb and finger to create the front foot. Bend the foot up. Push out the heel and smooth with your fingers. Again roll the paste between your thumb and finger to narrow the ankle and lengthen the leg slightly as shown.

Use the veining end of the Dresden tool to mark the toes.

Use a sharp knife to trim the top of each leg on a diagonal as shown.

Stick into place as shown.

Step three - Head

Take 60g of orange modelling paste and roll into a ball. Then roll the top of the ball gently backwards and forwards between your finger and thumb to narrow the top of the head, as shown.

Gently press your finger across the paste as shown to indent where the eyes will sit, and form the shape of the face.

Use the large end of the balling tool to indent two eyes as shown.

Take 2g of flesh modelling paste, divide equally and roll into two balls. Stick into place.

Use the large end of the balling tool to gently re - indent the eyes.

Use the small end of the balling tool to indent the eye sockets.

Take 2g of black paste and roll two small teardrops for the eyes. Take 2g of flesh divide equally and roll each piece into a ball for the muzzle.

Roll a small piece of flesh paste and and a smaller piece of black paste into two sausages tapered at each end for the mouth.

Take a small ball of black paste. Roll each side into a point. Pinch out the center to form a T shape. Smooth and round off the points to form the nose shape shown.

Take 3g of flesh paste. Divide equally in half. Roll each piece into a sausage tapered at each end.

Stick the mouth into place first, then cover the corners with the flesh balls to create the muzzle. Stick the nose on top.

Stick the eyes and fur into place as shown.

Use 1g of black to roll 6 thin stripes as shown.

Stick the the stripes into place each side of the face as shown.

Create the eyelids by rolling four small thin strands of black paste as shown.

Stick the bottom eye lids into place first then stick the top eyelids into place. curling the tips upwards and out.

Roll two small strands of black paste for the eyebrows.

Stick into place. Use a small paintbrush to position the eyebrows.

Use 1g of black paste to roll the following strands.

Take 1g of flesh modelling pasrte, divide into two. Roll each piece into a teardrop and flatten with your fingertip.

Take 4g of black modelling paste, divide into two roll each one into a teardrop and flatten slightly with your fingertip.

Use the veining end of the Dresden tool to mark two lines down the edge of each ear. Gently stroke the inside of the ear with the smoothing end of the dresden tool, to widen and thin slightly.

Stick the flesh coloured paste into place.

Cut the bottom of each ear off with a sharp knife as shown,

Stick the stripes into place as shown.

Stick the ears into place. Add two small teardrops of black paste to the centre of each ear.

Step four - Body stripes

For each front leg take 1g of black modelling paste and roll 5 strands of paste decreasing in size as shown

Start by sticking the largest strand to the top of the leg and work your way down, wrapping the strands around the leg. Repeat for the other front leg.

For the side stripes take 2 x 1g of black modelling paste. Divide and roll each 1g piece into three strands and stick into place as shown on both sides of the body.

For each back leg take 1g of black modelling paste and roll 5 strands of paste as shown. Stick them into place starting at the top of the leg and working your way down to the foot.

Stripes should look similar to this once you're finished.

Step five- Painting

Mix a couple of drops of orange gel colour with a couple of drops of clear alcohol. Shade around the stripes , tops of the legs, around the flesh paste on the chest and in between each toe and the soles of the feet. Remove any excess paint with a clean paintbrush dipped in clear alcohol.

Paint and shade the face and head as shown. Roll two small white balls and stick into place on each eye as shown

Mix a drop of black gel colour with a drop of clear alcohol. Paint a thin line around the chest.

Paint a thin black line around the pad on each foot.

Roll 5g of orange paste into a long thin sausage. Roll 1g of black modelling paste into 8 thin strands and stick into place. Bend the tail into the desired shape.

Paint the tail by shading around each stripe as you did on the body. Position the tail at the top of the left leg as shown. To make life easy, stick the tail into place once your tiger is on the cake.