

Making Sculpting Tools













Materials needed:
Tool workshop notes:
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Ken banks hand makes tools.
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Materials to get: Brass tube Hax saw, pipe cutting in the plumbing section, this cuts them so that the ends cave in slightly for a smoother edge
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cut the brass pipe with the brass cutter
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cut the smaller brass pipe for it to fit inside
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use a strong metal glue (I used arydite)
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use different wires, acupuncture needles, guitar strings to make your sculping tools.
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Turntables are called lazy Susan. Can buy in ikea. Buy table legs. Wicks.
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Start with foil. Squeeze until it is tight. The foil keeps it lightweight.
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Wayne uses monster clay. It's reusable. You can use silicone on it and fibreglass. Pete likes wed clay-developed by Disney it contains glycerine with contains water and absorbs water. Takes longer to dry out. You can use buff clay. Any soft clay.
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Super sculpting it is a polymer clay soften in your hands you can pigment add flocking by kneading it in.
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Jordu schell. He uses pigmented sculpy. Doing a maquette version first helps to test if it is going to work.
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Step 1 Establish primary form. Shape and size etc. The major anatomical sections. Be careful of heating times.
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Rough in all primary forms.
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Step 2 Large wire wrap loop tool. Wed clay is fast to work with.
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Establish your secondary forms. Rake and refine in the direction you want to go and the way the wrinkles would go you get down the layer of texture and direction you need.
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Same direction as the muscles.
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Do both sides at the same time.
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With monster clay you need to warm it.
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Use a stipple sponge to matte down.
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Power of the X- when you are doing wrinkles.
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Each wrinkle is an X.
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Use a long tool.
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Brush over with ipa. Which will smooth it down gently.
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Lighter fluid is harsher.
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Don't soak it else it will dissolve.
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Go over with a stipple sponge.
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Use thick plastic-freezer bags. Lay it on which will lessen the impact of the tool.
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You're adding another layer but lighter.
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Sprung stainless steel wire.
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Make sure all the lines cross over.
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Forensic dusting brush. Powder shows everything up.
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Flicking thinned monster clay with a stipple brush.
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Add some blobs with the monster clay.
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Parent wrinkles and child wrinkles Todd debricini.
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You can make up anatomy but it has to make sense.
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Brush along and up and down when making parent wrinkle.
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Go over with the stipple sponge.
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Small loop tools are good for pores. Used at an angle. Pores follow direction. Vary them in size. Brush the opposite way which takes the edges off.
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Veins cut them in or roll a sausage.




Useful tips found in the Makeup Magazine
My Attempt:
Sculpting Workshop
Dubroff, P. (2003) Feats Of Clay Makeup Artist Magazine No.37. pp51-53
My first home made sculpting tools!