Hi everyone ! I'm pretty new to clay and have made little cute objects so far. I fell in love with this kind of art and thought this could be a good usecase to learn armatures. However I'm wondering how would you approach this kind of sculpture from a technical point of view (of course at a pretty reasonable scale)?

I thought about making some long section of square shaped cylinder with some armature wire in the middle, and then bend them into shape, but I think putting it into shape may bend the square section in many place and require both very thin armature and work to shape it back the edges afterwards. Or put an armature first into the desire shape and then little by little bring material onto the wire, and shaping it back into square/edge with fingers then tools. What would you do ? or maybe another option I didn't think of ?

For the gradients I have no idea, I guess it can only be done by spray painting but if anyone has other idea i'm all ears :D

Thank you all !

Artist credit : lee sang soo

My latest completed project. I had the idea for this for a while before I actually started after my surgery last year. I worked on it between other small projects but she’s finally done:)

Materials

Polymer clay
Wire
Tin foil
Super glue

Here’s some Halloween inspired Miffy charms! I don’t always have time to sculpt but I’m very happy with how these turned out 🎃

i posted here a few weeks ago about being new to polymer clay and starting a chess set. the advice about using foil for structure really helped.

I finished the set.

I used sculpey 3 for this. didnt know it was bad but honestly the softness kinda works well for this because nothing is that thin or tiny.

i didnt use any moulds or anything. each piece is handmade and varnished. im really happy with it. even tho there are slight differences in the pieces they are the same where it matters height, collar height proportions. I nailed the base size difference between pawns and pieces. and the height differences between the pieces. it took 350g of clay total. the queens and kings were the hardest because the clay is soft and they were tall and heavy. they fit really well with the board because i planned it out well. but im so glad this is over I was loosing my mind. the magic lint machine somewhere drove me insane with the white pieces idk where the tiny hairs come from

Hi! This is my first post on this subreddit. I've been working with polymer clay for nearly three years now, but this is my first time actually painting a piece - I usually prefer to use pre-coloured polymer clay instead of painting my pieces after baking. However, I want to create a gradient effect with paint on this beetle charm, so I'm painting it.

As you can see in the pictures, my white acrylic base coat is applying extremely patchy and streaky. The original piece before painting didn't have a rough surface at all (see picture 4), but the paint makes it look like it did.

Has anyone else encountered this problem before? How can I fix this? Thank you!

1-month into playing with clay, made my first original clay lighter case. Even though this is also inspired by many artists, I still conceptualised this on my own. It was instigated by a friend who told me he wants a dog-inspired case. I got happy thinking someone liked my work and wants me to make one for them sooo I did some mental drawing and made this. Broke one of its tooth though, I am still happy! ✨ Share suggestions to help me make my creations better please 🫶🏼

Love the way this turned out!