Polymer Clay TUTORIAL: Sculpting TIPS For Beginners
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- Опубликовано: 1 июл 2024
- Learn how to sculpt with POLYMER CLAY in this Step by Step Tutorial.
Includes Conditioning, DIY Sculpting Tools, Baking, Painting, Troubleshooting and more!
VIDEO CHAPTERS:
0:00 - What is Polymer Clay?
0:24 - Different Brands of Polymer Clay
1:09 - How to Condition Polymer Clay
2:22 - How to Build an Armature for Polymer Clay
3:13 - Sculpting Tools for Beginners
3:51 - Polymer Sculpting Techniques
4:15 - How to Smooth Polymer Clay
5:12 - How to Sculpt Textures in Polymer Clay
6:13 - Flexible Clay - CosClay
7:05 - Embedding Gems into Polymer Clay
7:22 - How to Use Bake & Bond
7:49 - Baking Instructions for Polymer Clay
8:20 - How to Paint Your Polymer Clay Sculpture
10:07 - Final Sculpture
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MATERIALS USED IN THIS VIDEO:
SCULPEY medium - amzn.to/3wLGGh1
CosClay medium/firm
TINFOIL
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Wooden Coffee Coaster - amzn.to/3NuZ7fH
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Clay Rolling Pin - amzn.to/3qLE277
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Cornstarch
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PAINT
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Skin Illustrator (Alc. Ink Palette) - amzn.to/3sx04uy
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PPE (Personal Protection Equiopment):
(Always wear appropriate PPE such as respirators, gloves, face shields, ear muffs, and footwear. The type of safety equipment must match the hazard you are trying to protect yourself from)
REPAIR and ASSEMBLY:
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OTHER
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I just saw dozens of videos about Polymer Clay and this is by far the best one for begginers like me.
I learnt so much more in your 10 minute tutorial than I have watching a myriad of other, lengthy polymer clay tutorials. Thanks a bunch Sofia! I'll be watching more.
I love your alien spring onion! This tips are jewels.
Thank you 😊 glad you found the tips helpful.
Lots of great tips bundled into a single, short, no-nonsense video. Great work.
This was incredibly helpful. Thank you!
Excellent video! Very straightforward and educational. I'm not one to leave comments on vids but this one was awesome :) great job
I been showing my 4 y/o daughter videos of clay artistry and she loves it so now I have to learn all about clay so that she can safely play and create her own cool stuff and videos like this are great for me to learn so a big thank you from me and my daughter.
That video was helpful. Thank you.
You are an excellent teacher and very talented. Thank you so much for the time and effort to put this very helpful video together. I dabble in polymer clay jewelry making and am interested in branching out a little with some sculpting because it looks so fun!
i think she does anything perfect...also the video!!!!
Very Lovecraftian! Awesome
I’m proud to have figured out some of your pro tips on my own, but you still “wow’d” me with a number of brilliant tips. You have upped my game! Thank you!
The tip about using a sheet of plastic between tools and clay was awesome, thank you!!
I've watched a ton of craft videos but yours was so straight forward and packed with useful tips - great! THANK YOU
Just beginning my sculpting journey with polymer clay and i have to say - This one video hit 99% of the questions I had in mind! Great content and many thanks for putting this together! :)
Tip for conditioning from what I’ve heard and experimented with
Food processor. So much quicker and easier on the hands.
Starting my journey with clay next year so I'm so happy to have found this channel! You explain everything so nicely and show it well on top of also giving us some amazing finished works. Genuinely thank you 💙
I love this video! It's short enough but packed with information! Thank you!
This is such an underrated channel
Extremely helpful. Thank you.
Awesome tips! A lot of techniques I haven't seen before. Thanks!
Just started messing around with clay and this was SO helpful. Thank you❤
Great tutorial! So excited to start sculpting!!
Your so talented ❤️ I loved every second of it! 🤩
Omg so many things I didn't even know! Thank youuuuuu for making this video! 👏❤ It was super helpful. I'm going to be trying these techniques for sure. You're awesome! 👏
It's a treat to watch your creative process
This is the best clay tutorial video! It shows everything I need, thank you so much!!!❤
Thank you so much for the tip about corn starch, I've been really struggling with how sticky cosclay can get when I'm working with it!
Wow! this was a great tutorial and beautiful final sculpture!
This was so unbelievably helpful - I bought some cosclay on a whim to try a new craft project and felt overwhelmed instantly! THANK YOU! ♥️
Love the video! Always happy to have a few new tricks in the tool belt
This was helpfull and the sculpture is cool and beautiful
Amazing video, thank you & your sculpture was so cool!
Thank you for the videos teaching about sculpting! I enjoy them all, and I've learned so much about sculpting. I appreciate that you have taken the time to share your knowledge on RUclips so that people like me can learn about different clays and various techniques. You're very talented.
Very informative. Thank you!
Thank you for the wonderful tips and tricks! I'm so happy to find your channel. Love your work. You've inspired me to make a clay vase for my mother for Valentines day ♥️ and put flowers in it. Sending positive vibes your way. Thank you
Awesome video, so many great tips - thanks!
This is amazing help, thanks a lot, very inspiring! Can't wait to start doing it myself.
Omg!!! This has been one of the MOST useful videos ever!!! And this is coming from a self proclaimed you tube tutorial aholic. Plus, such a beautiful piece
WOW I'm amazed and impressed. You are a true artist. Thanks for sharing your knowledge
Really helpful thank you
Perfect tutorial
You are an excellent teacher, thank you 🙏
Great tips TY
amazing video thanks
I learned so much in this video thank you, subscribed!
That’s outstanding
This was very helpful, as a beginning polymer clay artist. Thank you very much. Also, your work is beautiful. :)
How good!
The slip- tip was a fab advice ❤
It's lovely what ever it is. Thanks for the info very helpful.
You are very welcome 😊
These are top tips!!! Your video is such a great tutorial. I never knew about armatures or using a loop tool and isopropyl alcohol to smooth and blend! This will help me make even better polymer clay gifts for my friends and family
Fantastic! Lots of useful tips about the clay types and paint techniques. I like it!
Wow Such a great tutorial!!! I've looked at so many but yours was soooooooo Informative, The break downs you give are short and simple to understand do you give private lessons!! lol this is great stuff I've always wanted to learn how to do this! Greatt video hope to see more like em!
I love your video. Doing some fimo sculpting tomorrow❤❤❤❤
Yes really enjoyed ur video.
Thank you 💜
If you used a see through style tube for the tentacles somehow and LED strips, it would make for an incredibly unique lantern/torch.
Nice tips, like it.
Thank you! ❤
Sofia, I just Liked and Subscribed. I made this wonderful figure but neglected to use the proper clay, the kind you are using that you can bake so that the whole work hardens. But, now, I want to dive in and get back to it. I have some sculpture projects I really want to get done this new year. Thanks so much for a very informative and inspiring video.
Excellent! Subscribed. I love the alien onion creature.
This is so incredible. I’ve been on a buying spree of Etsy clay food miniature jewelry. As such, I’ve become curious about the process and this answered it all.
This was amazing! Thank you for the information and the alien onion! 😂 looks so good!
Great tutorial thank you!
Glad it was helpful! :)
Wow!😮
you are absolutely fabulous
Pawesome 👍👍
This video was very helpful! I have just begun learning polymer clay, and I've had problems with stickiness and smoothing surfaces, so the cornstarch and isopropyl tips will help immensely! Thank you so much for the tips! Where do you purchase your cosclay?
This is Gorgeous❤❤Thanks for the tips.its really helpful for beginners like me 🤩
Aw thank you 😊 so glad you found it helpful.
@@SofiaBuewhats scotch brite
And can I use a normal sponge instead of a make-up sponge
That was so informative, thank you for sharing. I've been thinking about making more than just jewellery; this is the perfect place to see what can be made. I worry about the stickiness of the clay, and in exploring ways to combat that I've found Baby powder to be effective, plus it has a very faint fragrance which is quite pleasant. I've not heard of the other clay you mentioned, perhaps it is not available over here in the UK.
Thank You Thank You Thank You Thank You Thank You Thank You
Really good video…I sculpt with monster clay and love it…but it isn’t practical for permanency….learning to use polymer…this was very helpful. Thanks.
Awesome video! A lot of techniques, thank you for them! Could you, please, give an advise about painting? When you use acrylic paints is it possibility to avoid scratches on your sculpture? I carefully cover my sculpture with one-two layer of acrylic paint, wait until it dry and then finish it with varnish , but result is always the same- if I scratch it by my nail a little bit harder the paint peels off. It is important for me because I try to make jewelries and need to be sure that they will be during okay during skin contact. Thanks in advance!
Excellent tutorial and art piece , one question though, how come you baked it separately? I'm looking forward to trying it , I've never tried before
Another excellent paint to use is oils. I MUCH prefer water soluble oils, with no solvents to deal with. You can get some great washes from them and because the paint is applied thin it dries within a day or two, usually overnight. You can make some great color blends and you don’t have to worry about paint drying before wiping off.
I might have to spend time carving in polymer clay begrudgingly because i'm making color swatches and wanted to put label stickers on the backs of the baked clays, even tried testing it to see if the adhesive might turn my clays sticky after a month..... 2 months later checking on it and the damn thing wasn't even attacked to it >.> I don't know if sticker labels generally don't stay adhered to polymer clay.
My new plan might be to carve the names of the colors on the back, then paint the area in white like i wanted with the white plain stickers and then adding black paint in the cervices of the carved bits to make it look like i have a label on the back with black words. I liked the look of the sticker idea also it was more convenient..... Oh well.
Also the other problem i discovered with my sticker idea is i wrote in black pen ink on the stickers and noticed on one of my baked pieces a bit of pen ink transferred on to one of my baked clays i guess from it being pressed up to a loose sticker in the same bag. So i also have to test to see if pen ink will transfer to polymer clay if a label is pressed against another clay piece. The ink wasn't wet, i gave them 24hrs to dry before rehandling the stickers because pen ink tends to smear, so i know the ink was dry but some of it still transferred on to one of my baked swatches.
Hello Sofia,
excellent job, I love how much talent you have!
Question: do you think there is any material that would flow like a soft jellyfish under water when 'dry'?
Thank you so much in advance!!
Sabine
rema on top!!!
I'd like to know more about washes and using pigment powder.
I’m new to polymer clay but I’ve worked with ceramic clay a lot. I am going to introduce it for exploration at my clay club, at my local school so I think the alcohol substance you mention wouldn’t be possible to use in the school environment. What other substances can be used instead?
Thanks for all the info! does the corn starch work on fimo? i had some very old fimo, i brought back to life with some sculpey softer and petrolatum , but it made it very puddy like. and sticky
Yes corn starch will work with any polymer clay 😊 great that you were able to recycle the clay!
Can you do a video on the comparison pros and cons of polymer vs air dry
What kind of varnish finish should I use to get a glossy finish
When you blend the Sculpey and Coclay together is it still break resistant or does it get brittle like the sculpey alone.
Was wondering if any problems with using this to create aquarium pieces?
I returned my apoxie sculpt after learning about how toxic that epoxy clay is. Im so glad i watched your video just now, this is so helpful. I didnt know pre baking was a thing and that i can continue to build with polymer clay instead of having to do it all at once. Thank you so much
Hello Sofia, thank you for this video. I am wondering about these little black things you added on your sculpture, are they made of some plastic? You said that you bake them together with the pre-baked clay? I am really scared of putting other materials on to the oven, fearing it might damage the oven, or something might explode. xD What materials do you think would be safe? Thank you again!
But what temperature do you choose when doing the final bake that has used different brands of clay???? And when you baked the tentacles did you pre bake them since you were going to do a final bake?
I only Can find info of when you mix different clays but what about if you don’t mix them but instead have different sections made of different clay like if I used super sculpey for the body but chose cosplay for a body part I wanted to be flexible, then what temperature do I choose????? Can anyone help me please
Thank you
Girl come back!!
I was wondering about the flexibility of Cos Clay! I heard about it but never really saw it. I thought it was more like the flexibility of the 50/50 mixe!
Is the newer firm cosclay as soft? I've been using Cosclay and I like it a lot compared to sculpey, but I did notice it was softer than medium sculpey. Too much breakage on small things with Sculpey pushed me towards cosclay.
Yes I've gradually been incorporating CosClay for the same reason!
The "Medium-Firm" is certainly better, but still a bit softer and more sticky than Sculpey Medium. They work perfectly together though!
I'll come back to this when I saved up enough to start clay sculpting. Buying figma and nendoroids is just too expensive for me.
What an excellent video - my daughter is interested in making anime characters and I had no idea that polymer clay existed...this is a whole new world of making for her. And a technical Q from me...if you were making a large piece, as in too big for the oven, is there a way to harden the clay using a heat gun? Or would you make individual pieces, bake them and then connect them together somehow?
I’m yet to watch this entirely I’m only at 1 minute, but does Fimo soft help for beginners? I’m physically disabled and this includes my hands/fingers with multiple things in all my joints but I absolutely adore making art and trying things out. I do realize that Fimo soft is actually quite soft especially because my hands become hot (not sweaty) due to slight inflammation because I’m using them. Will the heat make normal clay less hard to work with for me? Or will it be too hard for me to work?
Mixing colors with fimo soft can already be painful if I do it too long for reference. I just find that sometimes when I use this clay, it becomes too soft to a point I can’t grab details because ruining them like little bows, leaves, grass etc. even with a tiny point tool.
Can you please give the link for cosclay
Great video, don´t really like the final result of that painting colors (just subjective).
What's alyouminyum mesh?
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Any type of alcohol can be used?
One thing that I have seen in another artist's video that you may find helpful... don't water down acrylics with water because it will actually mess up their ability to bind properly. This is fine at first, but will lead to eventual flaking and fading of the paint. Instead, they said airbrush medium is great to water down acrylics with and it won't cause the binders in the paint to fall apart. Anyway, your alien spring onion was gorgeous and thanks for the tips. Can you explain "pre-baking" please?