How To Make Clay Sculpting Tools

X-Acto Knife Used for trimming away excess clay create grooves use the flat side to make simple fish scales.

How to make clay sculpting tools. Incidentally if you dont have a pipe cutter a sharp craft knife or blade will work. Literally anything thats otherwise useless and might make a cool texture on clay. Our guide on how to make clay sculptures breaks it down into simple easy-to-follow steps.

For the tools in this instructable you will need something akin to. They are infinitely useful even if you never sculpt again. Looking around the house I find a small Allen wrench that will be great for adding a.

Fine sheets of paperclay are cast from slip on a plaster bat and applied to the armature. Try scraping the prongs of a fork across the clay this will create a 3 pronged pattern. I hope it saves you money.

Press the bottom of a teaspoon onto the clay surface to create. Once the entire animal has been covered a second layer of porcelain paperclay is cast and applied over the first. A strong work surface eg a thick masonite board.

Here are links to similar tools. Enlarge Picture showing the X-Acto knife 2. Beginners guide to sculpting in clay.

Look for anything that can be used to make interesting details on the clay. Hooves tails and eyes are added. A stamp is anything that you press into the surface of the clay to create an effect and the best part is that it can be made from just about anything.