Hello and welcome to
today's video in which i'm going to be
making my interpretation of
Jon Snow of Game of Thrones because you
know, i had to
at some point, didn't i? I've previously
made
Arya and Tyrion Lannister
and you can see both of those progress
videos
on my channel, but i'll link those below
as well if you
fancy having a gander at those
afterwards.
So yeah, i just thought it was about time
that i made
Jon Snow and i don't think it's any
coincidence that i chose
the hottest week seemingly ever
 in the uk, well it's what it feels like it
anyway!
I think i was subconsciously, or even
consciously actually,
drawn to the cold
of Jon Snow's surroundings,
and his warm outfits to keep him nice
and toasty.
I think i've decided this year that i
definitely
prefer Spring and Autumn over Summer.
It's just been stupidly hot.
So i won't be talking too much about
Game of Thrones today because I
always worry about spoilers, and i
really really enjoy starting watching
any programme without
knowing too much about it really. That's
why
Netflix gets a bit on my nerves
because
if you watch any of the trailers on the
interface there, well they're not even
really trailers really, they show you
bits and bobs of footage
from the programme or the film that you
want to watch, but they tend to give
way too much away, and i just
don't understand that really.
I don't know why you'd want to know the
entirety of the plot before starting
something so it's a Game of Thrones
plot free space today.
So i've wanted to make Jon Snow for a
little while
really because he's got so much going on,
there's
so much detail on his outfits,
so i just really wanted to try and
replicate
that with polymer clay in as best i
could really.
I can't always capture the detail that i
want to
 because i work with coloured
polymer clay so
it doesn't allow the same flexibility at
times really, if you're just working with
the
one tone of polymer clay and
then painting over.
i try where possible and in
99 percent of cases really, just to rely
on the colour
of the clay that i use, and in case you
didn't know,
i tend to use fimo professional polymer
clay for
the vast majority of my work but
certainly when it comes to
model making or making my
interpretations of people because it's  quite a solid
clay when it bakes.
I just really like it.
I think most polymer clay artists
tend to arrive at one clay that
they're
 most comfortable with. Although,
i have recently received a whole host of
different
sculpey clays from a lovely lady who
watches
my videos and she was having a bit of a
clear out,
so i've now got loads of sculpey souffle
clay
and sculpey premo accents
clay as well, and they're very different
clays to fimo but
i'm finding all sorts of new ways to
work with them. But
i'd say that they tend to work better
for smaller projects
like my pin badges. I've got
loads of
pin badge tutorials on my channel now if
if you're interested, I'll link
those below as well.
But for model making i
tend to stick to fimo professional just
because i like it really,
it's as good an excuse as any.
So tonally i'm working with 
very similar colours for Jon Snow's
outfits. They're all varying shades of grey
and brown so there's
not a huge amount of variation going on
in terms of colour.
So i don't really want to talk about Jon
Snow
obviously, but i was interested to find
out that Kit Harington,
who plays Jon Snow,
his real name is Christopher and he
didn't
actually know his name was Christopher
until i think he was 11 which is 
really quite
interesting, and certainly my favourite
fact that i found out
while looking up some stuff about him.
I think a teacher told him to write his
full name on his exam form or something and
so
he was like 'well i know what my name is,
it's Kit!'
and so he was corrected and
obviously felt a bit mortified 
that he
didn't know his name. I like the name
Kit actually, i've not come across it
before
other than Knight Rider.
So i'm just continuing to build onto the
torso here,
lots and lots of detail,
and this isn't a direct replica of his
outfit,
it's just my interpretation
of what he's wearing. As i say,
with coloured
polymer clay it's really difficult to
create
 something that's true to
form really.
You have to just really work with it and
see what you can do in your own
unique way, or your own unique style.
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So here i'm working on the collar
for his cape and i was interested
to see that
lots of cosplayers were making their own
interpretations
of this cape with ikea rugs,
so yeah it's very imaginative, very
creative,
and i'm just going to move on to his
hair now,
and this was unbelievably difficult
to do. I tried numerous ways to do his
hair and i'd say
i spent probably a full day
on his hair actually just trying out
different
ways of doing it because it's really
hard to capture
somebody's likeness at times and
i noticed with Kit Harrington or Jon
Snow, it was really difficult,
even though i had all the basics there,
you know the face
shape was kind of there, the beard was
kind of there, but you'll see here it
just went through
various stages of really not looking
very much like him.
It actually looked a bit like Samwell
Tarly at times as well, from Game of
Thrones which was quite interesting.
It just looks like a dashing
Knight here so
eventually i was able to settle on
a hairstyle that worked a lot better.
Basically i just went wild with the
curls really,
and it seemed to work a lot better. I
don't think the likeness
was, you know, 100 per cent in the end but
that's always the way with my models and
the way that i work with them,
it's not always possible to to get
something that looks 100 per cent
like the person it's supposed to be, but
in the end i was pretty pleased with
this one.
It was a good excuse to work on some
mega details
anyway. So now that he's baked for the
last time
i'll add just a little bit of sculpey
glaze
and here he is all done. I hope you
enjoyed this video,
give it a thumbs up if you did and, as i
say, i'll link below to Arya
and Tyrion so by all means go and check
those out,
and i'll see you next time. Bye
bye.
