How to make your own clay horse sculpture (THE BASICS)

Need ideas to begin sculpting your own clay horse or how to finish it? I’d love to share my favorite process and top 8 tips for sculpting horses in clay with basic materials. This is everything I wish I would have known before I started sculpting horses!

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✨About Me:
I publish videos once a month sharing my adventures in creating animal art in my free time for my own enjoyment, like sculpture, painting, printmaking and more. If you enjoy watching the adventures of an artist making things by hand, sharing tips, and sometimes learning something new, I’d love to show you what I make next!

✨FAQ✨
○ Do you sell your work/take commissions?
Thank you for your interest 🥹💙, but no, sorry, I'm just making projects for my own enjoyment at this time

📚🎓RESOURCES🎓📚
📌Anatomy references
○ Hermann Dittrich illustrations: https://search.library.wisc.edu/digit...
○ An Atlas of Animal Anatomy for Artists: https://mitpressbookstore.mit.edu/boo...
○ Gillian Higgins horse anatomy books: https://www.horsesinsideout.com/shop
○ Gillian Higgins horse anatomy YouTube:    / @horsesinsideout  
○ Anatomy playlist:    • 🔹Equine Anatomy RESOURCES  
📌Sculpting info
   • Sculptor David Lemon - Making a Wire ...  
   • Animal Sculpt 1 Research and Armature  
📌Mold making basics
   • Alumilite Academy: Mold Making Basics  
   • Basics of Mold Making How To Videos  
📌Mold making techniques
   • Silicone Rubber Moldmaking  
   • Mould making  
   • How To Make a 2 Piece Silicone Rubber...  
📌Resin casting techniques
   • Urethane Resin Casting  
📌Molding & casting horses & animals
   • Mold Making Tutorial: 2 Piece Cut Blo...  
   • Laying up clay for a silicone mold  
   • How I cast my Resin Model Horses  
   • How to make Two part Silicone molds! ...  
   • Casting an Allosaurus Dinosaur Model ...  
   • From Sketch To Sculpt: How to Make To...  
📌Materials & tools explanations
   • Alumilite Explains...  
   • When to Use a Pressure Pot or a Vacuu...  

🎨🛠️ TOOLS & SUPPLIES used in this video are listed below!!! These are items I have purchased for my own hobby & any links are purely for your own convenience.

✨ SCULPTING TOOLS & CLAY:
○ Epoxy putties: Milliput, Aves Apoxy, Magic Sculpt, Free Form Sculpt, Greenstuff/Kneaditite
○ Polymer clay: Sculpey Original, Super Sculpey in beige & grey (firm), Fimo, CosClay, Cernit, Kato
○ Plastilina clay: Monster Clay, Alien Clay, Chavant, Sargeant Art, Van Aken
○ Toothpicks
○ Rubber-tipped clay shapers
○ Ribbon tools
○ Embossing tools aka ball stylus
○ Wax carving tools
○ Dental gum stimulator tools
○ Needle-point clay sculpting tool
○ Masking tape
○ Blue shop towels
○ Galvanized steel wire for armature building in assorted gauges (I like 14 & 16 gauge for most scales)
○ Steel ball bearings (for eyes) (my set is 1mm-8mm sizes)

✨SUPPLIES FOR FINISHING SCULPTURES:
○ Duplicolor Sandable Primer
○ Needle files
○ Sandpaper (I like 600-1000 ultrafine grits)
○ 3M Ultra Fine Hand Sanding Pad
○ Flex shaft or rotary drill with your preferred sanding/carving attachments
○ Goggles for protective eye-wear
○ RZ mask for sanding
○ Your preferred paints, if applicable
○ Gloves for painting & priming
○ Painter’s mask for airbrushing & priming
○ Vapor-rated cartridges for painter’s mask
○ Varnish for sealing & protecting painted sculptures

✨ VIDEO CHAPTERS:
00:00 Tips On Where to Begin & How to Finish
00:16 Clay Support: Armatures
01:17 Starting the General Horse Shape
02:02 Clays for Beginners
04:39 Tools & Supplies
05:59 Realism & Detail Sculpting
07:35 Anatomy Resources for Beginners
08:11 Finishing Your Sculpture
09:04 Most Important Tip

MUSIC:
Music from YouTube Audio Library.

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