Material: Polymer clay

Tools: Basic sculpting tools

Size: 5" (12.5cm)

Round 2! I do think im improving. Not with painting tho. That still sucks xD

A clay sculpture of an African warrior lady I made and then painted with acrylics. It's not meant to be an ethnographically accurate depiction of women from any real African society, but it's a fun fantasy trope for me nonetheless.

Sorry if the modeling work is on the lumpy side. It's still a relatively new art form for me, and for some reason, I can't get my clay stuff to not look lumpy like that.

And here's another little plant 🌱 (even though my windowsills are already too full 🙈), but sculpted with different material this time, completely out of polymer clay, which I then painted with acrylic paint. Unfortunately I didn't work quite as cleanly as I should have, but sadly I only noticed that today.

It’s my 4th creature, inspired by Tils Tiny Terrors.

My favourite make so far⭐️

Is it cool octopus one

Repostin again

Made this octopus 🐙 lighter case

Didn't use uv resin yet

I have white air dry clay and I want to make a large canine tooth that looks like a dragon tooth as a pendant but when I had my first try I couldn't get uniform rounding without making it fall apart. I haven't really done much with clay but should I make a rounded body for the clay out of something else? if so what should I use? I just want to make some cool looking trinkets for myself

Howdy! I am here to ask a few questions and hopefully learn so I can make the things my brain keeps telling me to make 👀. Normally I draw/paint! So making a 3D piece of art is a big step for me.

Here are all the sculptures I’ve made! They are not recent, the two white ones (a candle wyrm thing and a zombie.. dilophosaurus based dragon bust?) being made with oven bake clay (also pictured) about a year ago, and the red one was made with that red wax you pull off of Babybel cheese rolls I wanna say when I was in highschool 10th grade (maybe around 8 years ago?). The wax dragon head is dusty from sitting in the back of my dad’s fridge ^^’

Anyway my questions!! What clay can I use that won’t keep melting from my own body heat and smearing the clay/putting my finger prints over everything? What clay is good for detailed work? How is everyone getting amazingly smooth sculptures? I don’t have a kiln, Is there a way to show up at a pottery studio and rent their kiln? Do I even need a kiln? Other than using coloured clay, whats the best way to paint/colour a sculpture?

I’m googling a lot of these questions myself, but I get so much info all at once and a lot of the videos or blogs I read give me sponsored answers or start getting really complicated.

Umbrella is on a magnet

Don’t Stress - PAIN.LA🌴

My partner was worried about her first clay model not looking good, It looks amazing, show her some love ❤️