This manual provides comprehensive guidance for crafting imaginative clay sculptures, focusing on fantasy creatures. It details techniques for creating realistic individual parts such as wings, horns, and bodies, and covers the entire creation process from initial brainstorming and armature construction to building the clay body, baking, and final mounting. The content is designed for artists and hobbyists looking to develop skills in sculpting a variety of creatures, including dragons, griffins, and underwater beasts, with an emphasis on achieving lifelike textures and expressions.
Within its 160 pages, this guide offers 65 step-by-step demonstrations to illustrate the methods for bringing fantastical beings to life in clay. It covers essential skills like making realistic wings and paws, rendering scales and fur, and creating compelling facial expressions and poses. The manual also includes a gallery of finished sculptures to inspire your own creations, showcasing a range of imaginative figures. This resource is intended to be a valuable tool for anyone interested in polymer clay sculpting and the art of fantasy creature design.
Sculpt fascinating creatures!
Explore the world of clay and learn to create the dramatically beautiful forms of some of the most fearsome and awe-inspiring creatures your imagination can conjure. Ranging from ferocious dragons to regal griffins to magnificent underwater beasts--they're all here!
Inside you will learn simple techniques for creating realistic individual parts of fantasy creatures. Wings, horns and bodies--everything is covered here. Then you will discover innovative ways for assembling those parts to form characters straight from your imagination! From start to finish, you'll learn everything from brainstorming creature ideas to making the armature and building the body with clay to baking and mounting the creature onto a base. Everything you need to know to build your very own mythological menagerie!
So immerse yourself in these easy-to-learn demonstrations and practice the skills necessary to create realistic wings, paws, scales, fur, facial expressions, poses and so much more!
- 65 step-by-step demonstrations
- Create a sculpture from start to finish
- Stunning galleries of finished sculptures, including dragons, a steampunk bird, a fiery dog and more
Author: Coleman, Emily
Publisher: IMPACT Books
Illustration: n
Language: ENG
Title: Fantasy Creatures in Clay: Techniques for Sculpting Dragons, Griffins and More
Pages: 00160 (Unencrypted EPUB) / 00160 (Encrypted EPUB)
On Sale: 2014-08-12
SKU-13/ISBN: 9781440336720
Category: Crafts & Hobbies : Polymer Clay
Category: Art : Techniques - Sculpting
Sculpt fascinating creatures!
Explore the world of clay and learn to create the dramatically beautiful forms of some of the most fearsome and awe-inspiring creatures your imagination can conjure. Ranging from ferocious dragons to regal griffins to magnificent underwater beasts--they're all here!
Inside you will learn simple techniques for creating realistic individual parts of fantasy creatures. Wings, horns and bodies--everything is covered here. Then you will discover innovative ways for assembling those parts to form characters straight from your imagination! From start to finish, you'll learn everything from brainstorming creature ideas to making the armature and building the body with clay to baking and mounting the creature onto a base. Everything you need to know to build your very own mythological menagerie!
So immerse yourself in these easy-to-learn demonstrations and practice the skills necessary to create realistic wings, paws, scales, fur, facial expressions, poses and so much more!
- 65 step-by-step demonstrations
- Create a sculpture from start to finish
- Stunning galleries of finished sculptures, including dragons, a steampunk bird, a fiery dog and more
Author: Coleman, Emily
Publisher: IMPACT Books
Illustration: n
Language: ENG
Title: Fantasy Creatures in Clay: Techniques for Sculpting Dragons, Griffins and More
Pages: 00160 (Unencrypted EPUB) / 00160 (Encrypted EPUB)
On Sale: 2014-08-12
SKU-13/ISBN: 9781440336720
Category: Crafts & Hobbies : Polymer Clay
Category: Art : Techniques - Sculpting
