Needle Felt Armature Tutorial Part 1

Well, since I was making an armature for another pony, I decided to document the process to make a tutorial like a couple of you guys have expressed interest in. I've seen another sculptor use this same technique (dragon and beasties) but I don't think it's that common. It's kind of tricky, but I find it a hell of a lot easier than making separate pieces for the body and then trying to get them to stay together without moving. You can basically use this for any kind of quadruped, and after you read this it would be pretty easy to figure out how to add more limbs, like wings.

If anyone has any questions, please feel free to ask. This is my first tutorial ever, so I might not be entirely thorough. I also would rather have had this all in one tutorial, but SAI doesn't allow you to make anything more than 10,000 pixels wide or high. So two parts it is!

Part 2: [link]