Sculpey Experiment #1
I wanted to sculpt some dragons, but dragons have wings and horns and scales and complicated thin poky bits all over. So, instead, I decided: dinosaurs. They are basically dragons, anyway, only with less of the complicated bits. Until I get around to making a stego, at least.
And the first one came out okayish, after some obsessively slow baking. I probably took it out of the oven a half dozen times; I was afraid it'd burn up and explode, but other than some cracking on the legs, it is mostly intact. She is a Tianyulong confuciusi, only without the proto-feathers, because those qualify as the aforementioned complicated thin poky bits that I was trying to avoid.
The side it was laying on while baking got flattened out, unfortunately. Note the iron marks on the hind-leg, face, and shoulder.
I am not displeased with how it came out, but I think what I mostly learned from making her was a list of what-not-to-do's when sculpting animals. Namely, don't try to make it all from one giant chunk of sculpey from the start. Also I still have no idea how to make realistic wrinkles, those are frickin' hard, man. I think that I know how to make the face look less like a smiley cartoon, though.
And the first one came out okayish, after some obsessively slow baking. I probably took it out of the oven a half dozen times; I was afraid it'd burn up and explode, but other than some cracking on the legs, it is mostly intact. She is a Tianyulong confuciusi, only without the proto-feathers, because those qualify as the aforementioned complicated thin poky bits that I was trying to avoid.
The side it was laying on while baking got flattened out, unfortunately. Note the iron marks on the hind-leg, face, and shoulder.
I am not displeased with how it came out, but I think what I mostly learned from making her was a list of what-not-to-do's when sculpting animals. Namely, don't try to make it all from one giant chunk of sculpey from the start. Also I still have no idea how to make realistic wrinkles, those are frickin' hard, man. I think that I know how to make the face look less like a smiley cartoon, though.