New Sculpt in Progress...Veronica's tail tips

Here's sneak peak at how I got Veronica into this tricky-to-sculpt position:

Had to resculpt a bit at this point and add more to her thighs, and thin her calves a bit....

New Merbaby Brianna Progress (WIP)

 The sculpting is nearly finished.  The tail will be easy!  Easier than tiny fingers, at least!

 Trying out her shell that will be her base.

The fun part is adding pretty colors and layers to her tail.

"Glass" eyes tutorial/videos in the works....

From here:

To here:

It's going to be awesome!  I love the lifelike feel they give!  The commissioned mermaid had eyes just like these (see last post).

On the Workbench...

Added a bit more glam to the commissioned mermaid.  Now her tail is covered with little "bubbles" (microbeads).

And the little merbaby is coming along.  I wanted to get her baked tonight so she'd be ready to finish in the morning...but I need the bright daylight to giver her a once over before she's ready to be baked. I actually got her hands, tummy, and bottom finished tonight as well.  I'm glad I figured out that hand pose.  It ended up pretty cute.  It was pretty rough at this state.

Fairy Wips

Some Faces in the Works

Give Kyle a Hand (or two)

I like to sculpt my hands out of a hunk of of clay I can hold onto. Then when I'm ready to attach them to my sculpt, I just cut off the "handle" portion I've been using.

Kyle's legs and feet have come together nicely. I think it's funny how the hand always looks like a glove at first.

Baking Kyle

I bake my sculpts over a bed of stuff (Polyfill) and am sure to support their bends and extended limbs with more fluff. I'm still shopping for a convection oven I like well enough to use for all my sculpts. In the meantime, I use a home oven, and bake the sculpts in this roasting pan. It minimizes the amount of chemicals that get into the oven itself.

Here is a shot of Kyle before and after he is sanded. In the second picture, he is still wet from the wet sand paper I use.  I start with 320 grit and work my way to 1000 or so.  I have up to 1500 left over from when I used to make jewelry and barrettes.  I usually don't make my sculpt THAT slick...they'd be glass-like.  But, one pack of this paper lasts forever!

Notice how he's pretty lumpy in the above pictures.  I always sand.  Polymer clay expands a bit when it is baked so no matter how smooth your sculpt it, the clay will come out a little uneven, due to the way it expands. 

Current Works In Progress (WIPs)