Welcome to sculpture studios. Here we're creating something from a children's story book from one of the UK's most successful authors, Michael Moore Pergo. Notable works include Warhorse, the origin for the famous film and theatre adaptation, the butterfly lion and many many more. Today we're going to be creating a piece of sculpture commissioned by Jack Arts for the promotion of Boy Giant. Thinking along the lines of the BFG or more along the lines of Galava or the Sun of Galava and naturally we're going to be creating something larger than life. The image we've been provided with is drawing from the bookseller straighter Michael Foreman to painting Omar, a young boy from Afghanistan, who we're going to be bringing into the 3D world. This will be carved from polystyrene, given a render of a thin concrete and finished to look as though the sculpture is made of sand. We've scaled up the gridded concept image onto our large blocks of polystyrene and using hot wires, aid and ingest have been going to work, blocking out the rough peripheral shape. As well as making sure the perimeter lines are cut correctly, seeing as we're removing quite a lot of material quite quickly, we make sure we retain a complete front and side on image as best we can, so we always have a profile to refer back to. The first part of the work is the the first part of the work. The first part of the work is the first part of the work. The first part of the work is the first part of the work. The first part of the work is the first part of the work. The first part of the work is the first part of the work. The first part of the work is the first part of the work. The first part of the work is the first part of the work. And there we are, finished. Obviously, that's a massive joke, and though this может be one artist's form of art, we're going to be refining this just a little bit more. Using the usual nail and wire brushes, with the artist's hand, using the usual nail and wire brushes, with the artist's hand, wires brushes, Aiden's honing down the shape, with stone mason riffslers being used on the more detailed areas. We're constantly referring back to the concept image so that we're not deviating too far off track in a direction that our own minds want to take us. It's quite handy to be able to directly overlay the concept image over what we're creating, so we'll do this during the next stages of carving. Don't get ahead of yourself Aiden, who knows what will happen. Let's face it, we're still working out. Just keep an eye on it here. Yeah, yeah. That was a set, oh don't, don't, don't. To give the boy a more modern film than that of the boy in the illustration, he's been given a hoodie to wear as opposed to the old cloth shirt and the waistcoat. So here we have Aiden, putting on the finishing touches. What we've done, we've superimposed the client's concept image over what we've created as everything's just being done from a visual aspect and we've made what we did, blue, what the client's image shows in red. So from this we could see what amendments we needed to make. Things like the eyes needed to be tweaked slightly, brought them up a tiny bit, made ever so slightly smaller, changing the eyebrows, bringing the ears down a tiny bit so that you see that was just up there, which was more natural is now in the more cartoon position. We've been sent some shots to the client, once we're happy, could be got it in a place that we want to show it up in and see what the client's feedback is. Once we're happy the carving is complete and we've sent photographs and got confirmation from the client, it's time to start working on the finish. To give this a slightly tougher exterior, the first thing we're doing is going over with a spray-on concrete. This will only be a very thin shell but it'll provide a more sturdy base layer before we start going on top with other materials. From a visual aspect, the colour of the concrete is a nice starting point for the artwork, but we're also going over with an exterior paint as well to sort of seal the concrete before going over with the sand and the pvaglou. The concrete layer also helps give the sculpture a bit of weight and this way it's not so easy to push over, but we're also adding a slightly wider base around the bottom. This will give the sculpture a wider footprint as well as make it look as though the sand is piled up around the bottom. pvaglou is painted on over the entire surface and we're then going on with a brown kilnsand. Not only does this give the right sort of effect for the colour and the texture that we're after, but we're also thinking about any future repair work if this sculpture is ever damaged. This kilnsand is a relatively uniform material and it's been chosen for if the client needs to buy any later down the line, it should blend in seamlessly with the original material. This is a boy giant after all so we've created some minifigures to jump up onto his shoulders. These are all finished in exactly the same way so the whole sculpture looks as though it could have been created rather masterfully on a beach. With everything nearing completion it's time to send some final shots to the client before this is transported to location. Rappin this up would have been rather hard wearing on the sand finish so we've just made sure the driver was extra careful. This was installed in St. Martin's in London for the promotion of the book Boy Giant Son of Galover. It's always great to see our pieces not only appreciated by the client and by the general public but in this case for Michael Moore Pogo the author of the book to actually see the sculpture for the promotion is just the cherry on top. We'd like to thank Natasha and the rest of the team from Jack Arts for coming to us with the work and we're sure to have a few more projects with these guys later down the line so stay tuned. Please feel free to leave any comments below as they're always appreciated and hit the subscribe button for our latest videos. You can like sculpt your studios on Facebook and follow at A's and Hines on Twitter and for more of our work visit sculpt your studios.co.uk. Thank you very much for watching.