Wilfrid Wood left a job in publishing to build puppets for the cult classic British television show, Spitting Image. His official title? "Headbuilder." As in, he built puppet heads. He's since developed the modeling style he used for the show and now creates illustrative sculptures. I use the word "illustrative" because he's often commissioned to create sculptures as illustrations for magazine features covering special events like the London Olympics.

Wood's process begins with a drawing. He then builds a wire frame, wraps the frame in aluminum foil, and covers the foil with a polymer clay. After modeling the clay, he bakes it, sands the figure, airbrushes on the color, and varnishes the whole thing. 

His work has the same hand-made, labor-intensive aesthetic of classic claymation films, but because Wood's works are single-form, still sculptures, his commentary comes in the characteristics he gives his figures. Things like the overly dramatic expressions of English soccer coaches, or the elaborate aging of Paul McCartney's face and even the child-like bum of a naked Justin Bieber give his work an element of comedic sarcasm rivaled only by his deadpan one-liner descriptions.