Part 2 sculpting back of the head
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- Опубліковано 5 вер 2024
- This tutorial will show you how I build the back of the head and the starting of her armature. Will put the head all together. Subscribe to watch how I will be creating her body. Click the like button so I just know your there with me sculpting. Thank you and will be back with part 3.....
The way you did the eyelids was pure genius! I'll so be using that trick. Thank you for the tutorials & the pep talk at the end. I needed that right now!
Aw your message at the end was just beautiful. Thank you for the inspiration!! ❤️
Thanks for doing this. I clicked the like button. I like sculpting while watching and listening.
Thank you Scot glad you enjoy it. Thank you for commenting.
I just love you!!! Thank you for sharing, and thank you for your encouragement!!! What beautiful words! To love ourselves, indeed!!! Cheers!
+Regina Provenzano Your welcome Regina. Yes everything we do it is about ourselves so why not just love. Its painless and free. Every time I share or give out encouragement it all had to start within myself first. Its such a fun path and many are joining and catching on. I love you and everyone. Some may say how can you love someone you don't even know. And I say but how can I not love everyone when Im loving myself. hugs
I wanted to say how much I enjoyed watching this video as well as Part 1. I used to sculpt years and years ago and am wanting to get back into it so your videos are a great inspiration and give me so many ideas to try on my own. Thank you!
Thank you Jonathan for viewing my videos and am pleased they have sparked that flame you hold. Thank you also for commenting.
What you were saying abouthow we are al artist and how everyone can sculp if they put in the practice, really made me feel better about my own developing skill. you made me smile, thank you
+TheTealRobin Glad it gave you a smile. We all develop and we never stop but we all have our own style. Practice will help us
to find it all. Thank you for commenting. hugs
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Thank you so much I love your work you are amazing teacher 🌸🌸🌸
Thank you Jasmine it was sweet of you to say that. Hope all the tutorials can uplift and direct ones that are trying to find there way of sculpting. Enjoy and have great fun sculpting! hugs
Thank you this was fun, now iam going to make a doll out of clay and florale foam. Thanks again.
The floral foam if Im understanding the same thing as you won't take the heat from your oven. Many artist will use aluminum foil with a masking tape wrapped around it. Hope this has helped and thank you for your interest.
Your lessons to me first put me to sleep. So mesmerizing, relaxing, and what I wish I could do, At the very end, the comment you said about just liking what you do, enjoy it..meant so much to me. I am terminally ill..this is taking me to a different place. I have searched for lessons,Ive seen so many, I am going to stick with yours, I see now how you feel about your work, your life much be joyess ! You have a great fan here,,,please let me catch on !! God Bless..and thank you.
bkladis join me on Facebook and then messenger. I have others that have health problems too but not only health. They need something to focus on that feels good. Very important in life. If you can join my Facebook and get on messenger. I will giude you step by step when you need help. We are all connected and allowing ourselves to feel good wonderful and greater things come our way.
Thank you for the encouragement. Love watching your videos.
Verne Garlock Your welcome and there will be lots more sculpting coming for all to get inspired.
c'est fantastique ! merci beaucoup pour vos explications !
Your welcome!!!!
thank you so much for the slow and methodical way you presented your tutorial..... finally i think i can now maybe end up with something that at least looks human !!.
+Denise Gribble So glad it helped. Please I would love to hear back from you to see how it helped. Join us on facebook if you haven't already. Any problems I will go out of my way to help.
Fantastic, I'm just going to start my first doll .gathering all the tools bit by bit. Can't wait to start. Maggie Glasgow. X
Maggie Hailstones Welcome to my art channel Maggie. Looking forward to hearing about how it goes for you. Any questions feel free to ask. I will do my best to help out.
Barbara! I loved your tutorial! I never thought about doing a head this way! I will give it a try!
Thank you I really liked this video. Especially the words of wisdom at the end. I will keep practicing.
goldbox Your welcome! Practicing is so important and it can really be fun. Always view practice as fun not something you have to do. When someone really has the desire and just enjoys there sculpting grows fast with maturity. Thank you for comments it truly inspires me to do more because I can see people are really interested. Take care and practice with fun and dig deep inside and find that wisdom you hold. hugs
Thank you so much your instructions are really clear and I love the character you put into your work :) I am just 'rediscovering' my inner artist after an operation that limited my options. I have another op this year and I've been 'stashing' things to do and make whilst I recover... polymer clay is the major thing I want to try and your videos have really inspired the direction I want to go with it. Thank you again for sharing your knowledge
Carmen xxx
Carmen thank you for leaving a very heart warming comment. It truly touches me that some where on your path that you felt inspired with my video's. This is why Im making these tutorials to share a way of art that I love and to inspire who ever is looking. But although its all within ourselves but sometimes we just need a raise of vibration and then were on our way. When ever I had things in my life that kept me from my art I always told myself its just a time to go back to school and do research and learn what comes my way. So, really I was never away from my art. Welcome and please join in and if you have any questions always ask and I will do by best. huge hugs
thanks for sharing your talent...it's amazing.
Francis sogo-an Well thank you so much for leaving such an up lifting comment...
thank you for the insight on how you do it for yourself it gave me some direction I was having a problem with the face and head shaping hope to see more of your work thanks very much
***** There's many different ways I can show but this one that I did I have used in my class's and so many of my students just saw it as easy as I showed them and they couldn't believe they at least made something for there first one that they could say they were so pleased. Thank you for the interaction and anytime of question please always feel free to ask. I answer everyone and will even walk them through a problem area.
You helped me so much!! I've been sculpting for several months and struggling with mouths...helps so much doing 1/2 face...I subscribed and will watch all of your videos! Thank you.
+Rose Jordan How wonderful to hear this. Yes we all have our own little problem areas and sometimes we just need to find something different to make things work. I use to struggle a lot with sculpting a whole head. When I started making just a half I found I could work with the clay so much easier instead of fighting with it. Thank you for subscribing and always expand and have so much fun. We are all artist if we have a deep desire.
thank u for ur tutorial and for ur encouraging words! love ur work!
Your welcome and thank you for watching my tutorials. Im pleased to hear they are inspiring.
Thank you very much,I very much enjoy your video. I am a new sculptor and I love it
Thank you Julie for the kind words. This is a much older video try watching my newer ones where I have less problems with my set up. Hope you enjoy them all and if you need any kind of help always feel free to ask. I'm here to share.
This is an awesome tutorial... I'm just now starting to make some small figurines and although they show a hint of a face, this helped me immensely. Thank you so very much.
Great! Practice and get the feel of your clay I always say to my students. Start out simple is the key and you will see your way of sculpting will change as you go. This is really to help get started and feel confident.
Thank you again....love seeing all the different ways to sculpt & love learning tips of other artists. I'm off to see the next tutorial.....thanks so much!
Your welcome Joyce and everyone here. Thank you all so much and I will keep making more tutorials there are so many area's in sculpting I cant wait to show everyone.
Thank you I love watching you 😘
Thank you again Claire. Very kind of you to leave a comment. Glad these videos are helping.
You are truly amazing and such an inspiration! I've always wanted to make my own faery dolls and you really make it seem like I can do this! :) Thank you so much for making this video series, you're a fantastic teacher!!!
Truly anyone can sculpt if they have the desire.. I hope that I have given you and many others just an avenue to find the beautiful artist that is within all. I will be putting up more and more videos showing there is a different way to work with polymer clay and it is truly easy... Thank you so much for your kind words. If there is ever any questions please ask.
Great words of advice for any artist, thankyou
Glad it was helpful and thank you for commenting on this tutorial.
Thank you for sharing these tips, and your workflow! I plan on making my first doll this year, and your tutorials are a big help. :D
Yes,!!! And thank you so much 🥰😘 your amazing ☺🥰😘
I so enjoy your work. Thank you for sharing your artistry and gift. You have beautiful energy
aswee01 Oh, thank you. And Im so glad your enjoying the video's even when i repeat or can't remember LOL.. And I honestly do practice everyday with my energy to always bring myself into alignment and just be happy in the moment. Always good to hear someone feels good energy. Thank you again sooooooo soooooo much... hugs
She ie amazing
Wow, I love your tutorials! Thank you so much for posting these! I have two part Apoxie Sculpt, and had no idea it could be used inside something that would be baked. I admit I hate using it because of the smell, haha
StormyDragonLady Thank you for posting and glad some information helped out.Yep it can be baked and the apoxie sculpt is as important as the polymer clay for me LOL.. I know some people that will make there whole doll from the apoxie sculpt. Its a whole different way but I have to say It looked good. Personally for me it would be quite pricey for me. Have fun and create.
Thank you so very much. You are a very generous soul to share you experience and at the end of the tutorial - we get a glimpse into your heart. Again - thank you. BTW - I especially loved how to make the eyeballs. Glass eyes are so expensive - well for me - unaffordable. Now, I have something to share with you. Here in Hawaii - the supply store I go to does not sell the UV Gel because we have so much UV sunlight. What she suggested to me is PEBEO Cerne Relief (transparent) which is made for stained glass (baking) and it becomes rock hard like glass - lasts for literally years and years without getting cloudy. That is my share. Again, thank you (mahalo). :)
Sharon Adams Your welcome Sharon glad your enjoying the video's and for commenting here. I get more emails but when people comment see I just learned something myself from you and many would will to. I have used Pebeo glass paints it was some time ago. Today our stores where I live dont carry it and I have to say I did like the glass paints. Im always looking for other things to play around with and Im going to look on the internet and see if I cant order some. I want to thank you so much for this information.
Thank you so very much. i wanted to learn to put real looking eyes not painted. This is so helpful. Bless you so much.
***** your welcome glad the video inspired you. Im sure your eyes will look beautiful.
thank you so much h for sharing your gift with us. Ive experienced hard times with sculpting because one thing looks beautiful and I've gt it just perfect but then the other side gets squished or other frustrating scenarios take place and you seem to understand that it's going to happen and with your narration warn your viewers ahead of time and fully express why each step is in place to avoid disaster. I you realy are amazing at th our craft and a talented tutor. thanks again I have a million questions for you but will see if you answer them I your videos without being so presumptuous as to start asking so prematurely
Thank you Joe for such kind words. Many people and including myself encounter the problem of clay being to soft and then when we touch it our hands just add more heat. Impossible to sculpt and nothing but frustration and many people quit. Starting off with half of the head you still have to remember to put in a few parts because your sculpting on a flat surface. But getting the feel of the clay without so much frustration is the key to get the experience of how the clay works and moves. Once you get the experience of the clay you might just move on to a whole head but I would suggest a very hard core for the armature. Have questions? Please feel free to ask as many as you have thats a great sign you have a desire. Fire away and I will do my very best to help out...
Hi ..this is so amazing..you are so talented..gifted...Thank You for spending your precious time showing everyone how to create such beautiful sculptures..as you worked away I can hear all the wild life in the background..sounds like fairyland...peaceful and relaxed..even your dog taking a drink of water..Aw..Do you offer personal classes..?
Susan
+Susan Allen Thank you Susan for watching my video and you enjoyed it. Yes I do wish I could always have my windows open or sit right outside with my clay but I don't think the polymer clay is compatible with dirt and temperature LOL. So when I can have my windows open and of course the pets are always with me so they make there little noises to let me know there with me. Yes I do offer class's but Im booked until next year. Have you joined my facebook page I share a lot of information and pictures of things I don't always share here on youtube. You also can ask me more question there and if you have problems I can try and help you.
A smile to your face.... A like all the way from denmark. Im not an artist - but I do want to try your way... I just starting to look for help and your video was just the one that made me feel that I actully could do it.. the epoxy part did scare me a bit though. Thanks a lot...
Karina Nissen The apoxie gives you a hard core. This keeps your eyes from shifting when sculpting. Not everyone does it the way I have shown. You might just try it without the apoxie and see how it goes for you. Experiment and just have fun. The apoxie you do have plenty of time its not like a glue. No oder and easy to work with. Hope you give sculpting a try I believe everyone can sculpt. Any questions always feel free to ask..
This was a joy to watch and very informative, so thank you for taking the time to make this video. I am an artist who paints with oils on canvas but I have recently started to sculpt with clay. I find it makes my paintings improve as well, because I have more understanding of forms when I create them in 3d. Your tutorials are so easy to follow. Thank you, I too am guilty of being too hard on myself. I am never satisfied with my finished work. In fact I have gotten into the awful habit of stopping when things are almost finished as until they are finished they still have potential to be great lol. Not sure how to get out of this habit but hopefully I will find a way. :-)
Oh thank you Diane for sharing. Drawing with painting and sculpting are great tools to learn one or the other. When learning how we go through so many other things besides the art itself LOL.. It sure will become therapy if we allow it. I can so relate being hard on oneself and not finishing a project and your so right it can slip right into a habit. Trust me your on the way to expand from the habit. A habit is a lie, how do I know? Because life is all about growing just like art or any kind of creative project. Keep this in mind when creating, its ok to not like something as your making it because whats really going on is expansion. Just allow it and keep going with the project. You will truly see that when your not liking something your moving into improving. Really embrace those feelings when your creating and just know that its all about learning. Many times I have gone through so many stages to sculpting that when I was finished or I even felt to completely start over it was such a learning tool. As I moved on if I completely started over I knew everything I didn't want and my new project flowed so easy. If I stayed with it I found this out so many times. When I felt my project was trash LOL I stepped out of that habit and remembered it was a lie. As I embraced and allowed the art to flow I have been so amazed at the results. If I would of stopped where I felt that feeling of not liking I would not of allowed the expansion of to flow. May this help you as it did for me and know this your good from inside to outside. hugs
Thank you so much and I know that you are right, it is just so hard when you are going through that learning curve isn't it. Big hugs right back at you. I can see improvement in my paintings. So much so that sometimes when I stop for the day and then come back on the next day, it feels like someone else has improved it overnight ;-)
Thank you so much x I am very hard on myself :) I think this technique will be a lot easier than sculpting the solid head ,doing in 2 halfs is a really good idea x I will not give up ,practice ,practice till i get it perfect x thank you for your video and lovely words of encouragement x
All my students that I have shown to do half of a head have had such great results in so many area's of sculpting. It gives them the feel of freedom and not to be afraid of to much confusing information. Make it simple and get to know the clay. That right there is so important... The rest comes through practice and one other thing I always say to my students. Get rid of the word perfect because there is no such thing. To believe in perfect you will only find its never right or good enough. Instead of perfect we use words like awesome, beautiful. Anyone that has a desire has the ability to be what the desire is. Thank you for your support and commenting. Hugs
i love your work and hge lover of figurines
heep up the fantastic work
+Ariel Forbes Thank you for such a sweet comment.
dont let the negative ppl keep you from doing what you do i honestly think your mermaids are store quality and would sell oxoxoxoxox
Thank you Ive been in this art form for a very long time and the negative only gives me the opportunity to know more of what I want and don't want. My art will never please everyone it will for sure please me and that alone is the most important and should come first. Others will only follow that connect what I put out and it will all expand and be one big happy community. I cannot thank you enough for your support. Huge hugs
i wanted to konw how much would you charge me two mermaids i's like one caucaisin one and one blk one and i like long hair i remember seeing the one you made with the irradecent tale i thought she was just gorgeous and i like pretty faces .i'd like t display them in my china cabinet
i'm srry it was different mermaid that i saw by someone else please ignore my request evne though i ike what you do
thank you so much, can't wait to try my head this way, look forward to body.
Your so welcome a lot more coming not with just this one. If you have questions remember feel free to ask I will help you out all I can. Have a great week.... hugs
Thank you so much for your explanations and details l feel you are so faithful in your work god bless you ;please l need to know how can l make the dough in order to do the face and body of the doll Thank you very much
***** Zelda answer to your question you don't have to wait until it is totally dry. I work on it when its at a stage where its firm enough. Meaning I would be able to lay clay over it and the clay isn't going into the apoxie. You also can speed up the drying by putting it in your oven. I have done this many of times and I just use the temp that Im using for my clay which mine would be 275. You will know once you start working with it and see how it starts to harden. Hope this has helped.
Such a good tutorial. But can I say(A little too late though) please don't use a band saw on your models :-)
You're so so sweet❤️❤️❤️
Thank you and your very sweet to say so. hugs
Wheres the LOVE button
I love your doll's face. I ve got just one question: if you are right handed, wouldn't be easier to work the left eye first, so you'd have a better view to do the right one?
eumaroca I think you have a very good point there. And someone that is sculpting may try out your question. I am both ambidexterity so it feels the same to me on either side of my brain with my hand. But here was what I was really trying to say in the video is that by doing a sculpt with a solid clay (instead of 1/2) when I hold my clay head in my hand thats when the right side of my head will shift towards the back of the head. This would be due to the heat from my hand. So the whole purpose of doing the half of a head was based really on the holding and heat of my hands. But lets get back to your question and I do really think anyone that is sculpting should try starting out on there least dominate side. In art school that was an exercise the class would have to do. Excellent exercise because you are less in control and it flows easy. But many found it to be a little frustrating because of feeling out of control. For me since Im both I don't feel any of that. Great question and thank you for bring it up here for someone else to read.
You are welcome! Happy Christmas to you! x
What clay have you used for her face and what colour is it? i want to do one of these and i'm a beginner so would you recomend this type of clay, it seems soft so is this make of clay easy to use? Thank you!
I'm a beginner at sculpting and your videos have been super helpful! I followed your instructions in part 1 step by step and had a decent looking face, but when I tried to attach the two halves to the armature, the whole structure started falling apart. I couldnt get it to blend without squishing the face too much :(. I don't use epoxy because I sculpted the eyes into the face, but I decided to try bake and bond to hold the 2 halves to the wire. By the time I could get the thing on there, I had messed my face up so much, I couldn't save it. Maybe it's just sculpey III being beginner's clay, but it seems like everything is just squishing too easy for me. Any tips for putting it together without ruining it?
Hello Shel and you have a question that many beginners ask. It's important to find a good quality clay because you want a clay that is going to be able to work with you. Everyone is different and some clays work for some and not for others. Try a different brand like Femo, Kato, Cernit. You can also stage bake it. Cook the front of the face then add the rest of the clay to the head. I like using something to reinforce in between the cook and raw clay. I wouldn't suggest ever using like femo liquid or sculpey. I don't feel they are meant to use for strength. Bake a bond I know people use. I really can't say because I use the apoxie sculpt. Also leaching out the oils in your clay can help out tremendously. But remember you want a clay that can take as many different times cooking. Some brands will change in color and makes it hard to build over the cooked. If you still have some clay left over try leaching out the oils and practice. Play with it because what your having to do is get the feel of the clay and how you want it to work for you. If it doesn't go to the next brand, but stay away from the cheaper clays.
I loooooooove your videos! Thank you sooo much for sharing. I have learned so much from you.
But I have a prayer..I really mean this without being mean. Pleaaaase reducere your word-like "aarm." It is so anoing. In the first 6 minute I counted 22 "aarm." Your great great great videos makes it so hard to listen to. Very very hard.
with love
Kristin
+Kristin G. Myhre Yep your right I did a lot of ummmmms. I have wanted to take them down but I get so many and I mean so meany people beg me to not take them down. They tell me the ummmm don't bother them at all LOL. Move on to my newer ones. It was something about that camera thing LOL and I do practice on producing much better videos and to I only had a web cam at that time too. I love your honesty and no doesn't bother me at all what you said. Thank you so much for being kind Kistin. hugs
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Thank you!
This is amazing! Thanks for sharing but may I ask, I don't think that I will find any of those tools in my country.. Any idea what to use instead? I've never made a doll before and I really want to try :)
vampire12girl Thank you. Well lets see you could make some tools right from the polymer clay. You will want to make it real smooth. I have made a few for myself and works great. To make an eye lid you can use a straw. Look all around your house you will be amazed at what you can find. Hope this helps.
I sure can use some information in witch tools to get and what can help me if I made some home made tools thank you
***** Oh, you can be so creative with making your own tools. When I first started out I couldn't afford all the nice tools and then when I start to work on a face it kinda lead me in the thinking, oh a tool with a small pointed end is what I could use. I took some wood that I found and made a skinny end to it. Then sanded it down until it was slick. Take polymer clay cheap stuff and create handles and ends if needed use crazy glue to secure the ends to your handles. Design them all in a way that you would see it would work. After I could afford some tools I bought the rubber end tips tools the set called Shapers. The only thing I would tell anyone is be very careful if buy plastic sculpting tools for this reason. I found they had a seam and that is no good to use to sculpt a doll. Does that help with your creative imagination. I hope have fun and really the best tools have been the ones I come up with.. Have lots of fun
When you root hair do you do it into the clay that has not been fired yet and will the oven hurt the hair?
Carrie Lonsdale You can root hair in raw clay but I find it to be hard and you it takes a lot of patients. I find root hair works better for me when the clay has been cooked I just make the slices where the main parts will be. Yes the hair will go in the oven fine as long as you always dont go over the temp the clay calls for.
Thank you so much, I really wanted to see hoy a face is sculpted but when I made some research I realized most of good tutorials have a cost :( Which brand of polymer clay are you using?
KatyShaga I use a lot of cernit and kato. Bozzi is another but dont use it as much. Its cost is high and I feel its a lot like cernit.. These 3 clays are firm all the others are way to soft for me but what is soft for me maybe firm for someone else. If anything use a good quality clay it will truly be to your benefit. Yes there are many tutorials out there to purchase and they are good artist. But I know many cannot always learn something when there is a high cost. I have been thinking on how I could expand these tutorials for everyone so there is a place where many can interact with there working piece of art. Hands on and guidance just another step other then here with the tutorials. I have been thinking of fb. Any thoughts anyone?
Thank you so much for your time on answering my comment. Yes, it would be good if you had a Facebook fanpage. See, I'm mexican, and the only brands I have seen (and very difficult to find) are Sculpey and Fimo. I've worked with Super Sculpey and I can see that the consistency the clay you use looks different, that's why I'm asking. Good luck and please keep working on your tutorials :)
KatyShaga If you only have two brands I would go with fimo. Just in my opinion I feel its a better quality of clay. But I still would say they are very soft clays for me. One other thing if the clay is to soft leach your clay. That will help out a lot with being to soft. And yes tutorials will keep coming. Any question please ask and I will truly help you as much as I can. I answer everyone here... And I will always show in my tutorials the whole process...
Thank you!
how would you suggest going about sculpting hair?
If your wanting to sculpt hair I would suggest cooking your dolls head and then applying the color of clay you want to use for hair. This way you won't get the colored clay anywhere on the face. Then before applying the hair I would ruff up the scalp this will help your polymer clay to adhere to the cooked. Some people might suggest applying some liquid sculpy. I personally wouldn't ever use it to adhere anything because I just don't feel its strong. Bake and bond would be so much better in my opinion. I find for myself by ruffing the scalp works fine. Hope this helps.
Why do you have the top of the wire sticking out of the top of her head?
+JUDYJAY2020 You then have an option to hang your doll while you sculpt. I have a stand, but you can have a stand and it connect through the back of the doll around the waist. When the doll is finished you then clip the wire.
What kind of epoxy are you using?
Blessings,
Neesie
Neesie Davis Aves Apoxie Sculpt. Shop around the internet for price. The last two times I bought mine was Amazon. Hope this has helped.
Yes, thanks! I found it on Amazon also. :o)