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Clay modeling tools, what to use?
 Q: Andrew Iverson asks:
I was wondering what tools people use to sculpt [their clay models]
with? Using Sculpy, it seems too soft to get detail before baking. After
baking, I use a dremel tool. I assume that most people use clay sculpting
tools, but living in a small town all I could find were tools made of wood.
A: Patricia Beckmann writes:
Regarding tools, I make many of them from the very material I sculpt from -
Sculpy. It is so cheap to make them in comparison to buying them, and they
are fully customizable. Do it in Super Sculpy, as it can be drilled and won't
break as easily as the regular blend.
Patricia Beckmann
A: Rick Catizone writes:
Most of us use what we're comfortable with; basically, which tool handles
the way we need at that moment for that cut or shape. I use wood and
plastic tools, but the two I use most are actually metal tools for wax.
As to dremelling your life away, I don't know any pros who work this way.
It is sooo difficult to "sculpt" this way. First, use
super sculpey...not regular. The difference in consistency is well worth the
difference in price. Remember that it doesn't air cure, but heat cures.
So, if you want it even less pliable, you could set it somewhere MILDLY
warm for a very short period to firm it up a bit.
Mainly, you just have to understand the medium. It's not clay. You have to
handle it much more gently as you sculpt, as opposed to the pressure used
in shaping , say, #3 or #4 oil base clay. When doing an arm... to smooth
it, you are more caressing it than shoving it, if you get my drift.
Also, I never bake it as directions state, as I think that also contributes
to cracking. Since most(all) of us use wire armature understructures, you
need to remember that metal and plastic will not expand and contract at the
same rate. So, I bake it at about 25 min. at 100 degrees, and let it cool
down in the oven so that it slowly cools down.
Rick Catizone, ANIVISION
A: Rachel Levine writes:
Next time you go to the dentist, ask him/her if they have any old dental
tools...broken...whatever...that they wouldn't mind donating to an artist.
They're great for carving small things after you get the basic shapes down
with the wood tools you've found. Just make sure you put them in a pot of
boiling water for a while to get all the cooties off :) Soaking them in
alcohol would probably do a good job too.
Rachel Levine |
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