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bezzalair β Pillow Girl Maquette
Published: 2012-01-03 01:32:35 +0000 UTC; Views: 27181; Favourites: 690; Downloads: 141
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FINALLY!
My half art trade I had with of one of his pillow girls.
At first I was GOING to draw him a picture, but after he thought that THIS IMAGE was my art trade half, I decided to do something a little different.I would like to ship this to him... but I'm a little afraid of not packaging it good enough. xD;;;
**EDIT: I shipped it off and it successfully made it to him! YAAAAAY!!!
**This maquette took a while to make. xD;;; This is my second attempt sculpting one. After making it, I probably need to change some of my strategy a little if I decide to make more.
Next time, I'm sculpting the head separately from the body and THEN put it on. Also, I think I really hate sculpting hands. Drawing hands is easy, sculpting is hard. One more thing, I need to figure out a better tactic of smoothing the clay... >___>;;; I looked up suggestions, but the alcohol didn't work very well...I did take progress pictures, but I think I'll save those for a future art-book I'd like to make.
Her height is about 7.75 inches from the wood base.
Maquette made by me, Caylee.
Pink Pillow girl is *emperpep
(wooden base, wire, screw, super sculpey clay (sculpted with metal wax carving tools), acrylic paint, glaze gloss spray)
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Haha, thank you~ I should do another one of these again sometime.
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Tutorials, practice, and belief in myself.
Thanks~
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I tried making a clay dragon once and failed
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Practice makes perfect~
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a few more years of practice then maybe i will have actually good artΒ
Or not?Β
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Well it does take time and practice to see results. If you're interested in being an artist, just keep at it and believe in yourself. 
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But i am an artist (not a very good one yet)
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is that... a kind of candy? oooor just the lighting @__@
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Candy? It's a sculpture made out of super sculpey clay.
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LOL sry to say that 
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this is like one of the cutest things ever O.O
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I sculpt anime figures too (limited to chibi style because of the material and owen size XD) and I have to say this looks really great!
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Aw, thank you~ ///>wπ: 0 β©: 1
You're very welcome! ^w^
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I find turpentine smooths clay pretty well, but you have to have a light touch because its like it melts the clay so you don't want to use too much. Also make sure it drys completely before you continue to work on it.
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I'll have to see if it works on sculpey and try it out sometime.
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That is friggin adorable. I've been dabbling in sculpey and I suuuuck at it. I've found wooden tools can be helpful though. I have a combo set of wooden and metal.
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I haven't tried wood before, but I have with plastic... plastic SUCKS. I'm very fond with my metal wax tools though.
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is super beautiful! I wish have one those!
how long you took to do that (approximately)?
PD: the green pilow is Nue
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I've been working on it off and on, a little bit each day in between projects, so I can't give you an accurate time, but it around a month.
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It's so detailed, and her expression is so cute!
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This is very good (:
and thankyou for actually making...as opposed to buying one of the web, taking photographs then getting pooploads of views for it...ive seen it so many times
BUT THIS, is very well deserving of all the views, faves etc C:
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yeah, I've been seeing a lot of those images of figures on here... but sometimes you actually find the sculptor if it, which is rad.
Thank you.
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it makes me sad, man
and your welcome (:
im pretty jealous xD
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You did well.
Tips for smoothing: use an old paint brush and water--stiff brush will give texture, soft will help smooth. Or something like a cosmetic or artist sponge. I've never worked with super sculpey clay before--only apoxy--so I don't know how well this will work.
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I've never worked with apoxy, but I don't think using an artist/cosmetic sponge or a paint brush and water will work. Sculpey is a very tacky material, kind of like soft wax. I know that it would work for other materials, but not sculpey.
I've recently looked up some more smoothing tactics and someone suggested piano wire looped in a stick.
Looks kind of like this:
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I might try that.
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I wonder how sculpey would react to oil. I've used vegetable oil to smooth gapoxio--an old, inferior type of apoxy. You might be able to use mineral oil or petroleum jelly.
Good luck with the method you found. 
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I'll have to try and experiment. Though oil sounds like it might become a greasy mess. o__o
Thanks for the suggestions~
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The way you did the dress and the hair is very nicely done (:
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Woah, this is amazing!! How do you DO this??
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Look up some maquette tutorials on here.
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If you run a tooth pick that you've broken to it has a flat side you can smooth it out rather nicely I do that when I make hair pins with vines and roses on them.
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I'll have to try that next time and see if it will work. 
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it's all about the pressure you put on it. Light pressure should work.
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Very cute and well sculpted! 
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OMG ;____________________;
If this oc was mine i would die, this is freaking amazing Bezzy ;D
You're amazing! <33
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