Posted by Steve | Posted in Modeling Materials and Techniques | Posted on 18-05-2010
Tags: art, clay, clay modeling tutorials, design, sculpture, tutorials
How to make a Tim Burton-like sculpture?
well I’m always being compared to tim burton (art style and the more obsessive fans say personality-wise too) so I decided to try out one thing people have been urging me to do: Clay sculptures.
I want to make figurine-like models (you know like in his stop-motion films) I even made sketches but tring to figure out what materials would be best (what clay and how clothing would be made)
any tips and tutorial links would be good)
I guess polymer clay would work best if you don’t want to make anything large. You also won’t need a kiln or other expensive equipment. You can look through the images here to see what other people are making with it:
http://images.google.com/images?rlz=1C1GGLS_enUS305US305&sourceid=chrome&q=polymer+clay+figures&um=1&ie=UTF-8&ei=rE5DS_aKHM7ElAeWm7WeBw&sa=X&oi=image_result_group&ct=title&resnum=1&ved=0CBgQsAQwAA
There are plenty of books and plenty of websites with instructions for working with polymer clay out there. Use google or check your library.
How to Sculpt A Sexy Lady in Polymer Clay Tutorial (Excerpt)
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