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Published: 2012-02-28 22:17:20 +0000 UTC; Views: 23011; Favourites: 635; Downloads: 341
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A walk-through/tutorial of my new sculpture, the wolf:Brief my ASS. -_- This seems to be a common pattern among my tutorials, intending to make something short and then ending up with another "huge ass tutorial".
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For this tutorial you will need:
- Foil
- Wire
- Wooden Base
- Paints
- Super Sculpey
Optional, but preferred:
- Sculpey Firm
- Airbrush
- Airbrush Paints
- Different metallic and wooden tools
- Turpentine
+ Crap loads of different glitter/glow paints if you're into that kind of wolves...
If you haven't already, make sure to read my other tutorials first! Be sure to especially check out the Textures-tutorial, I used the hair-part to texture the fur of the wolf.
Now I'll be collecting my reward for sitting still for hours in the form of MW3....
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Comments: 44
My clay is really soft and it makes it hard to make details. XD I am in awe of you.
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No wonder, add some Sculpey firm into your Super Sculpey,- this will make the clay easier to work with.
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is super sculpey polymer clay or clay that you use a kiln to bake? Just wondering since I barely know what a kiln is
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it's polymer clay (oil based clay) that you can bake in your own home oven.
Kiln is reserved mainly for water based clays.
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Nope, which is why I recommend using foil and nothing else! Foil is very easily manipulated and it has a good surface to lay clay on.
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Wow.. O_o I need to try this sometime XD It looks wonderful.
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Sculpting man, such a rewarding hobby. I tell everyone interested to try it out, at least once!
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does it matter on what clay you use? becuse while looking at these tutorials, i see everyone uses the gray clay and layers it with the beige stuff.
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It's completely up to you. What people are doing when they add layers of gray clay, is they are first creating a stronger base for the details (the gray stuff is Sculpey Firm, its harder than the beige clay), and then adding a layer of Super Sculpey (which is softer and easier to sculpt details on).
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ok, because i bought super sculpey and I needed to know.
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You may want to work on your fur sculpting, or more, the blending of it. Currently they look more like scales than fur (which if it were a dragon wolf, would be AWESOME) due to how separated the bunches are. Blending them more together slightly and such would probably help the fur look softer and more fur like C: The way the tutorial itself is set up is great though; very easy to follow!
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For this wolf I wanted to go with a more cartooney style than realistic. I figured over-exaggerating the fur patterns would make it easier for people to spot them. For a non-tutorial piece I would maybe go with realism (this one just simply took too much time to sculpt).
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Wow! First I scrolled through it briefly to see the progress and I was blown away. c: I went back to go and read it all. This must be quite heavy in the hand. But it's just so wow~
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Thank you!
Quick poll if you have the time: Do you think I should show the result first before explaining how it's done?
I've been wondering about it for a while now.
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I personally like it when the finished result surprises me in a tutorial. But if you mean upload the finished product then upload a tutorial for it that would be great too~
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I think you could have stood to work with the fur a bit longer (around the eyes and the parts that still looked like the pieces you placed for base and such) overall however, a very nice tutorial.
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I'm quite happy about the face overall, but I do agree with you. Legs and stomach could have been blended in a lot more, and if I were to make another wolf, I might use a different technique.
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I suppose so...
I personally don't sculpt. So I probably shouldn't be giving tips ^u^'
but thank you for reading my comment and taking it into consideration (probably occurred to you before I said anything, though...)
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There's tons of things that I would do differently now that I get to see an actual photo of my sculpture, but very often the advice of those who are not experienced in the subject are the most valuable 
And never assume anything; things that might seem like an obvious mistake might not be obvious to me! I stare at my work for so long that I become extremely blind to it.
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Ahah~
Isn't that the truth...
thank you for responding so quickly.
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Deviant art gets 15 mins every day. Need to control this shit somehow
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pfft~
You do realize that eventually you'll look up and 3 hours will have passed, right? XD
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Every time man. -_-
I'm like "Ooh it's a bit late, I'll just check my emails and then notes on dev and go to sleep". And then: SUDDENLY, WILD TIME MACHINE APPEARS and it's 3 am and I'm like "wtf thanks deviantart"
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pfft~
It's right in the coding... I swear they have some sort of subliminal message in the site that says "You must stay on here until ungodly hours of the morning! No exceptions! >8D"
... oh and the little gray man says "you're welcome". O v O
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I've noticed similar code in other places too, Skyrim probably being the worst of them all.
And it seems to strike you when you least expect it; when you have work early in the morning, or when you're supposed to get something done.
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XD yeah...
WAY too many computers and such use that code... somebody should copyright it or something...
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I knew sculpting fur (or anything for that matter) wouldn't be a walk in the park, but this tutorial has definitely increased my respect for those who sculpt animals!
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I don't think I've seen anyone do it as complicated as I did. Less is more I think, next time I might go with some other technique :/
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Oh wow, I didn't know two of your previous tutos as well.
Read all three and YAY, learned a bunch. Guess one question only remains... that second picture with fur, where a piece is in your finger. Is this a single block textured with wavy strokes? It seems very... not-a-single-pice'y. =O
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You did not? 
How could you not know that?
Oh and yes, that piece is one single block of clay. Towards the back of the neck I used bigger tufts, but in the end, I post-processed them so much that only some of the original tufts remain.
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