Sculpey 101 Class 1: Tutorial on How to Sculpt a Head with Polymer Clay

Old vid, but getting a brush and 90% isopropyl alcohol will smooth the surface out a bit more reliably than your fingers when you rake it.

What acrylic paint brand do you recommend for painting cos clay? I know so many use Folk Art but I want my paint to have great Lightfastness and Im looking into liquitex heavy body acrylics? Is folk art a great brand for polymer clay? Im planning on using it for painting my creepy horror cos clay jewelry which will handle more abuse than a sculpture, so I’m thinking of going with liquitex heavy body? Love your videos!!!!!!!

Love love love this video. Great teaching skills

Great video!

My very first effort.. flat face.

Great info !! Thanks ! 💚✌️💚

You hit so many important parts of sculpture and anatomy with this video.

You got at raking😜

Hey man! great video. Might I ask: if I want to sculpt human figure around 40 cm with an armature, is it good idea to use polymer clay? I have fimo professional doll art and I'm wondering about the sizing right now

So lucky that i know you from Blankos and twitch.And now i started do some clay works to learn and here i am.

Thanks dude I really appreciate what you do

Hi! I would like to learn how to sculpt but not online. I leave in Kansas city.

Thank You! You are awesome!

I used to love sculpting talking 2005 can no longer use my hands for much due to pain. Loved this video so Ive subbed you. Very cool . Thank you.

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Merci Josh pour ces astuces ! C'est sympa et généreux de ta part.
Même si je modèle avec de l argile autodurcissante,t'es conseils me seront très utiles ! Encore merci !
Porte toi bien...

I’ve almost broken all my fingers with sculpey firm, I’ve incredibly weak and painful fingers but I also hate the easily squeezed and ruined Fimo soft, does anyone have a middle clay?


For reference I have hypermobility syndrome and not yet permanent but my fingers bend like swam-neck fingers to a point all my fingers crack with movement so it can’t be too firm. I can still straighten them but they get “stuck” with hand movements.

The best chanel!

I unfortunately don't have a lot of time to watch this yet, but I would like to comment and ask before I forget (maybe it's addressed in the video idk yet): do you bake your detailed/realistic polymer clay sculptures in between layers or do you sculpt the whole thing and then bake once? If the former, how do you get cured clay stick to raw clay, and if the latter, how do you do so in such detail without damaging your progress by accident with fingerprints or others?

I have never tried sculpting and I really want to, and this was very informative. Thank you!

Would love to know where you got your anatomical figure in the background.

Sculpey III if fragile when baked. Mainly for small things like beads.
Sculpey III can be mixed 1 to 1 with premo translucent and makes a reasonable strong clay for bigger and thinner things.
I use this mix of premo translucent and Sculpey III because there are so many colours and its easier to make a colour match later, need be.

very complete, I have struggled to find a more complete course even on websites dedicated to courses.

'Caucasian fairies' 👍

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Что за тупой стереотип, "если ты творческий то выгляди как пугало"...

230-250 degrees what? Farenheit or Centigrade?

super insightful. thank you! glad i found your page!

I don't know if thank you is enough..I didn't know what to do and where to begin.. watching ur video helped me so much sculpting my first sculpture (king of barbarian from COC).. thank u ...*subscribed*

I like to way you explain, pleasure to my ear to listen to you! 🌺

i bought fimo professional clay and i wanted to start practising sculpting. my biggest problem is that clay turns so soft that i cant manage it to stay in shape. first stages when i try to make a head shape from it and i try to Mold jawline, when i get first side of it done and move to other side, that first side goes totally out of shape. it gets me so frustrated..do you have some advice for that. maybe i make too small and soft "skull" inside of it and thats why It feels too soft.? can it be because of that.?

Awesome work! Thank you!

How’s Sculpey Premo for carving after baking?? Can you carve in very small and fine detail??

Omggg this is the most informative video ever this have help me so much as a starter I recently decided to try sculpting I have love it ever since I eventually got discouraged bc I been searching and searching video to teach mmyself how to sculpture came across your I have been blessed thank you so much for this beautiful inspiration pls never give up on these classes new subscriber ☺️

Lot of good info. I think I will get some clay.

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真棒，很荣幸能看到你的作品

Bro. Your tutorials captivate me more than others

Just a simple Tim Burton nerd clicking on videos like this to try and learn how to make stop motion puppets.

His hair is his best sculpt so far

Great tutorials. I watched them in the middle of March this year, but only now I have the opportunity to write. Even when I was watching these videos, I was thinking of asking you: Did you think to try the sculptor on ZBrush? I see that classical sculptors continue traditionally. Why is this so? From the perspective of classical sculptors ZBrush is fake? This is an interesting question for me, because I started sculpting in Zbrush ( It's just a matter of the time we live in. There was no ZBrush there before. Now there is. And it is possible for someone to start sculpting first there, and then in the more traditional classical way.)
and then I tried the classic way. Even now I watch your lessons because of the classical sculpting. once again - a great tutorial, and a lot of fun too.

The best tutorials by far!

good stuff.. i wish you'd printed out 2 copies heh

I wish i saw this video yesterday lol i did my first ever project with clay and couldnt figure out how to hold the clay without getting it all bumpy while pressing. Took FOREVER but I did it and im actually super proud of how it came out otherwise. Im planning on doing a bust and was kinda intimidated by the proportions of the face so thank you for the extremely helpful video!

I just found your channel I’m so happy I did!! I’m new to sculpting and I’m completely HOOKED!! I can’t thank you enough for sharing your talent and knowledge, blown away so far! Excited to watch more of your videos, thanks again your channel is amazing!

Sculpy eye, eye, eye. I just call it sculpy three! haha. Brilliant.

good work , nice haircut, looks like a punk dwarf. More please

My only opinion about this video is that he could've smoothen the surface of the head with alcohol

hi there, how do u deal with cracking while figures dry out ?

Sculpting skills 100%... video skills dub this and cancel out the transitions. It was so hard to pay attention to things.