Print out your , tape it to the wall, and make your first ten sculptures as ugly as possible. Ugly sculptures teach you more than perfect ones. By sculpture number eleven, you will have a character with soul, personality, and a little bit of your own magic in its eyes.

Your character isn't a soldier standing at attention. Bend the wire armature into a "C" curve or an "S" curve. Tilt the head. Shift the weight to one leg. If the skeleton has no energy, the finished sculpture won't either.