How to mold a dog from plasticine: husky, spitz, shepherd, chihuahua, dachshund. Step-by-step master classes with photos

Both adults and children may need the skills to sculpt plasticine dogs. Such figures are made for creative competitions, exhibitions or simple children's games. How to sculpt dogs correctly, and what you need to know when creating small copies of these animals, will be discussed below.

General tips and recommendations for modeling a dog from plasticine

To make a plasticine dog as similar to a real one as possible, you need to follow these recommendations:

• Before you start working, you need to visually study the breed of the animal. Dogs have different body types, hair lengths, and skull shapes. Tails, paws, and even ears are different. It is necessary to maintain the correct proportions. Photos of dogs found on the Internet will help with this.
• To work on small details, you will need a thin needle or a toothpick.
• If you plan to mold a large figure, then to save material you can create bases from foil. Aluminum is rolled into a lump, giving it the desired shape, and then coated with plasticine of the appropriate color.

• If the body is heavy and the animal's legs are supposed to be thin, the plasticine they are made of will not withstand the load. It will sag and deform, spoiling the overall appearance of the figure.

To avoid this, you need to use matches, toothpicks or wire as the basis for the paws. They are installed in the finished body and then covered with plasticine, giving it shape.

• To imitate spots or other coloring features, you need to rub a small ball of plasticine over the surface of the body, trying to blur the sharp edges.
• It is recommended to style long hair using a special device similar to a kitchen garlic press. This way the stripes for imitating strands will be even, of the same thickness, and the work will look neater.
• Very small parts are attached to the figure using tweezers. For example, claws or eyes. To prevent plasticine from remaining on the tool, you can wet it with water.
• To imitate curly hair, you should use plasticine shavings. To do this, you need to scrape a piece of uncrushed material with an iron ruler.

An important tool for shaping is a special knife called a stack.

These tools are made of plastic or wood. They are used to cut even pieces and shape finished products.

Dalmatian puppy made of plasticine

How to mold a dog of unusual spotted color from plasticine is described in detail in the master class below. For work, you will need black and white material. The latter should be 2 times more. For a medium-sized figure, a standard piece of white and a quarter of black plasticine will do.

When making the body, you don't have to worry too much about the cleanliness of the light part. Because all the errors will be hidden when applying the black spots.

Step by step instructions for creating a Dalmatian:

1. The white material should be kneaded well and divided into 9 parts. All of them should correspond to the size of the future body parts, these are:

• body (largest part);
• head;
• 4 paws;
• Tail;
• 2 ears.

You can start creating the craft.

2. First, a blank is molded in the form of a cone with a round base. Then, a boomerang-like detail is formed from it, one end of which will be thicker and shorter than the other. The dog's neck will be in this place, and the tail will be on the opposite side.
3. To form the paws, you will need 4 matches. They need to be coated with plasticine, giving the desired shape. Dalmatian puppies have short and thick paws, while adult dogs have long and graceful ones.
4. The tail is rolled with the fingers, giving it the shape of a thin carrot.
5. The paws are attached to the body, and the joints are carefully smoothed out until they become completely invisible.
6. The tail is attached in a similar way.
7. It remains to mold the head and attach it to the body. It should be noted that the muzzle of small Dalmatians is rounder and shorter than that of an adult animal.
8. The ears should be in a semi-erect position.
9. To imitate the unusual coloring of this breed, you need to separate small pieces of black plasticine and apply them to the dog's body. The edges of the spots are carefully rubbed with your finger.
10. The final stage is the design of the muzzle. Eyes and a nose are added.

The plasticine Dalmatian is ready.

Husky

The body of the husky is molded from gray or ochre plasticine. White or beige color is required to decorate the muzzle and light areas, and black for the pupils and dark spots. The eyes of dogs of this breed are blue.

How to make a husky from plasticine:

1. The sculpting process starts with the head. You need to roll a round ball of the main color.
2. Cheeks and an elongated muzzle are formed from light plasticine.
3. Small flat black circles represent the eyes. A blue iris is attached on top, and then a small black pupil.
4. The nose is shown as a dark drop.
5. Three thin strips are made from white plasticine and a pattern is laid out above the eyes, resembling eyebrows. The position of these eyebrows should give severity to the dog's muzzle.
6. The ears are made from the main and light colors. Two equal parts are separated from each piece of plasticine. Then the dark and white are combined. The main color should become the back of the ear. The details are placed on the top of the head. The ends of the ears are directed away from each other.
7. The body should be long and stocky. In the neck area, white fur should be imitated. To do this, pass a small piece of crushed material through a press. The resulting strips are carefully placed on the dog's chest in the form of strands of fur.
8. The front paws are formed from white plasticine. They should be thick and medium length. You won't need matches.
9. The back legs are made of two colors. The thighs will be the main color, and the part below the knee will be light.
10. The husky's tail is slightly wider towards the end. If desired, a light spot can be added.

It remains to connect the head and the body. It is desirable to align all the joints and blur their boundaries.

Spitz

This breed of dog is one of the easiest to make. You will need one-tone plasticine and a plastic knife.

Manufacturing:

1. Work begins with the dog's chest. To do this, you need to roll an even ball.
2. The next detail will be the back of the body. It should be smaller than the chest and slightly thinner towards the tail.
3. For the head, roll a ball with a smaller diameter than the chest.
4. An elongated muzzle is formed from a separate strip.
5. The head and body are joined and the joints are carefully sanded with a finger.
6. From 4 identical parts you need to mold short, thick paws. They are attached to the body.
7. The whole body is smoothed with fingers. The plasticine is spread downwards. To imitate lush fur, a strip of plasticine is attached from the crown to the shoulder blades and smoothed. If the chest is not lush enough, then similar actions must be performed.
8. The ears are attached to the head, and the tail is attached to the back. It should be made from a flat strip that widens toward the bottom. The Spitz's tail lies on the back.
9. It remains to work out small details with the help of a stack. It is necessary to draw wavy and long fur, and also to mark the place for the eyes.

When shaping the muzzle, it is important to take into account that the eyes of Spitz are small and close to each other.

Shepherd

The plasticine shepherd is made from two colors - brown and black:

• The base of the head should be a small brown ball.

• The muzzle is made separately, from black plasticine. It should be quite large, elongated and wide. In places where the eyes are planned, it is necessary to lift the black plasticine from the muzzle and smear it slightly.
• The eyes are made of brown with black pupils.
• The ears are shaped like sharp triangles, the corners of which should point slightly away from each other.
• The nose is indicated by a small brown oval.
• The body is formed from black plasticine. It should taper towards the back. The chest is made in brown at the front.
• The paws are molded from light plasticine. The shepherd's back legs are slightly shorter than the front ones.

All that remains is to attach the tail and smooth out all the joints.

Chihuahua

How to mold a dog from plasticine, which is considered one of the smallest breeds, is described in this master class.

Step by step production:

1. You should prepare plasticine in light and dark shades that are typical for the color of this breed.
2. A small ball is rolled from the dark one – this is the base of the head. The muzzle is made from light plasticine, in the form of a small tubercle.
3. The nose is molded from black plasticine.
4. For the eyes, small holes are made using a stack. First, they are filled with white plasticine, and then black pupils are added.
5. Chihuahua ears are large, with pointed tips. They should be placed on top of the head, perpendicular to the eyes.
6. The body is made from the main color material. Well-kneaded plasticine is given the shape of a rhombus with rounded corners.
7. The head is connected to the body with a match.
8. Wooden sticks are needed to decorate the paws. Chihuahuas have rather slender legs, and if they are made of plasticine, they will not hold the whole structure.
9. The tail of these dogs is small, shaped like a cone.

You can use a stack to draw small details and fur.

Dachshund

This breed of dog is considered one of the most unusual, and it is very easy to mold it from plasticine. For this you will need black and brown colors.

Manufacturing:

1. The base of the body and head is made of black material. The body should have an elongated shape. Narrower at one end than at the other. For the head, roll a round ball, and then form a narrow, long muzzle from brown plasticine.
2. The nose and pupils of the eyes are marked in black. The iris is brown. The nose is not a simple round shape, but an elongated one. Part of the plasticine should be extended to the bridge of the nose.
3. A light spot should be applied to the lower part of the body.
4. The paws should be thick and short. They should be made of two colors. Dark on top and light on the bottom.
5. The tail is made from a thin sausage, tapering towards the end.

The dachshund's ears are hanging. Two parts resembling a drop shape are molded from black plasticine and fixed on the sides of the head.

Rottweiler

A plasticine copy of this breed is made by preparing all the parts in advance. The material used is of two colors: brown and black.

Manufacturing:

1. A black body with a wide chest and thick neck is molded. It should taper slightly at the back. A brown spot is applied to the chest.
2. To create the head, roll a black ball, and mold the muzzle from brown. It should be short, but slightly elongated.
3. The eyes and nose are made black. Frowning eyebrows are formed on the dog's face from light plasticine.
4. The Rottweiler's ears are semi-erect. They can be cropped.
5. The hind and front legs should be two-colored, with lighter tips and a darker base.
6. All parts are connected to each other.

Usually this breed has no tail, or it is very small, since at a young age this part of the body is cut off.

Bolognese

You can mold a long-haired dog from plasticine without creating each strand separately.

To make a lapdog, you will need one solid piece of white material, which you need to give the correct shape and draw grooves on it, just like drawing waves.

Step by step production:

1. You need to mold a workpiece in the shape of a heart, one of the corners of which will be smaller than the other. The shape must be stable. Therefore, the lower corner must be made flat, pressed to the surface of the table.
2. Now you need to roll out a round layer of the same color and cover the workpiece. This layer will imitate long and thick wool. You do not need to press it tightly to the base. First, from the folds you need to form long ears, a short, blunt muzzle, a tail. These details do not have to be clear, it is only important to mark them.
3. Using a match, you need to press out shallow depressions for the eyes. They are decorated with black plasticine. The eyes of the lapdog are quite large, as is the nose.

All that remains is to draw the hair growth line using a toothpick. You need to start drawing the line from the top, having previously marked the parting line from the crown, along the spine.

Saint Bernard

To make a St. Bernard, you need 4 blocks of material of different colors:

• white;
• orange;
• brown;
• black.

You will also need matches and a plastic knife:

1. The white body is made first. It should be wide at the base and slightly tapered towards the end.
2. Then make the paws. There should be matches inside each of them.
3. The St. Bernard's tail is made of white plasticine. It has a slightly polar shape.
4. All white parts need to be connected together.
5. From brown and orange colors you need to make three large spots on the animal's back.
6. To make the head, you will need to roll an oval shape out of a dark color.
7. The muzzle is made of white plasticine. It is important to remember that the St. Bernard has a slightly retracted jaw and hanging cheeks.
8. The eye area is determined and a dark color is applied. You can add tiny pieces of white plasticine for the effect of glare. From the base of the mora to the middle of the forehead, between the eyes, there should be a white strip.
9. Above the pupils, you need to make overhanging eyelids from thin stripes of brown color.
10. The ears of this breed are large, hanging and dark.

The head is attached to the body with a match, all joints are sealed.

Spaniel

To create this dog you need 2 colors of plasticine - coffee and white:

• The head is made from an oval blank. At the end of the muzzle there should be a light spot, from which a white stripe extends to the middle of the forehead.

• The spaniel's body is long and squat. It hardly tapers towards the back, and remains uniform from start to finish. Therefore, it is necessary to mold an oval blank, which will mark the place of the neck.
• The legs of this breed are thick and short.
• The tail is molded in the form of a sausage with a blunt end.
• The spaniel's ears hang almost to the ground. Elongated drop-shaped parts are created from brown plasticine and fixed to the sides of the head.
• For the eyes, you need to make small indentations and insert black balls into them, filling the eye sockets halfway. The lower part should remain empty. The overhanging eyelids are indicated at the top.

All that remains is to add a black nose, and the plasticine spaniel is ready.

Boxer

How to mold a dog of a popular fighting breed from plasticine is described step by step in this master class:

• The boxer's body is molded from brown plasticine. It should resemble a boomerang, with one end shorter than the other. The body is stretched toward the back and widens toward the front.

• The legs of this dog should be slender but powerful. In order for them to be able to hold the structure, it is necessary to insert matches into the paws.
• Boxers' tails are usually docked, so you can depict it as a small bump.
• The muzzle is molded as usual, but its length is shortened a little. The jaws should be white, and a light stripe should be drawn from the nose to the forehead.
• The eyes are marked with black. Brown stripes are used to decorate the eyelids and cheeks of the dog.

The final stage of creating a plasticine boxer is the ears. They should be relatively large, pointed and straight.

Pug

To create a pug you will need beige and coffee-colored plasticine:

• This dog's body is oval in shape.
• For the head, you need to roll a round, even ball. The head should be quite large in relation to the body.

• The pug's legs are short and strong. No matches needed here.
• The prepared parts are assembled into a single whole. A tail in the form of a short carrot is added to them.
• A flat muzzle with hanging cheeks is molded from coffee plasticine. The nose and large, round eyes are marked in black.
• Pugs' ears are held in a semi-erect position, at a wide distance from each other.

Finally, you need to smooth out all the joints and use a toothpick to mark the folds of the leather.

Puppy in a plasticine box

If you put a plasticine dog in a gift box, then this figurine can be given to friends as a souvenir.

Step-by-step instructions for creating the craft:

1. You need to start with a box. You can make it round, this will greatly simplify the task. You need to roll out a layer of material, about 5 mm thick. Then, cut out a round bottom and a strip that will serve as walls. Connect the parts together.
2. It is not necessary to create the puppy's body, you can only mold the head and front paws. For the head, roll a small ball, then stretch the lower part, taking the shape of the muzzle.
3. There will be a cardboard lid on top of the dog's head, as if the dog looked out of the box, lifting it up. Therefore, it is better to make the animal's ears hanging.
4. The paws are made from thick "sausages". The fingers are separated with a plastic knife.
5. The eyes and nose are marked in black.
6. The lid of the box is made according to the shape of the bottom. For beauty, you can put a bow on top.

The main feature of such a craft should be large, pitiful eyes with glare. They can be made from small pieces of plasticine.

Cute plasticine puppy with white spots

How to mold a dog from plasticine that looks like a cartoon character is described in detail below:

• The puppy's body and paws need to be made from one piece. To do this, a small portion of plasticine needs to be shaped into a quadrangle, with the sides bent toward the center. The puppy will lie as if it had fallen and spread out on its stomach.

• The animal's head is depicted as a black, smooth ball. The muzzle and one spot in the eye area are marked with white plasticine.
• For the eyes, make indentations, into which brown balls of a suitable size are placed. You can add small highlights of white color.
• Above the eyes, two small, light spots appear that resemble “house-shaped eyebrows.”
• The nose should be oval and brown.
• The ears are dark and hanging. The tail is short, with a white tip.

The result was a cute and clumsy dog.

You can use plasticine to create a miniature New Year's decoration in the form of a dog dressed as Santa Claus.

How to make it:

1. Roll an oval out of red plasticine and flatten it. This will be the dog's body.
2. Add sleeves by rolling them out of sausages.
3. The edges of these sleeves and hem should be marked with white stripes. Add protruding paws.
4. You can “put on” boots made of red plasticine on the hind legs.
5. The dog's head is made from two balls. One of them is the main one, the other is used to mold the muzzle.
6. The nose should be triangular and dark. The eyes are white with black pupils. The ears are hanging, in the same tone as the head.

The final stage will be the production of a cone-shaped hat of red color with white edges. The New Year's decoration is ready.

Having learned how to properly sculpt dogs, a child will be able to create a copy of a pet, or make a dream come true in a plasticine miniature. An adult who has acquired sculpting skills will be able to organize creative games with homemade figures and help children expand their horizons.

Article formatting:Natalie Podolskaya

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