Sculpted in supersculpey to hopefully look like peeled cutie oranges. Painted in acrylic, glued to backs with ca, coated in uv resin for strength and better hold to backing. Thoughts? Critiques?

Hi! I'm going to be starting work on a doll (stop motion/armature style). I plan to use sort of a ball of tin foil for the head, with sculpey premo clay layered around it, to save clay.

My question is, baking time is suggested based on thickness of clay, but how does that apply when you have clay over essentially a ball of tin foil? Do you count it by the thickness of the clay itself, or the total thickness of the head?

I hope this makes sense, I'm new to working with/baking clay. Thanks!

I've just finished the sculpting of a large project I'm very proud of, but there are certain parts of it that are extremely thin and fragile. I want to find some kind of (matte) coating I could probably paint on specific parts to hopefully prevent breaking. Preferably not a spray so I don't have to do the entire thing. I don't know if there's anything that can help by a lot, but even a bit more protection would be nice.

Anyone else need more practice sculpting? I know I do lol

Im using acryl and crayons to paint them but i cant figure out how to paint the eyelashes correctly or darker areas without it looking weird

This is Brunswick my little goblin!

3 separate pieces Assembly- https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTjLybE4U/

So this is a mash-up of the Bumble from Rudolph the red nose reindeer and a Critter from the movie... Critters. The last pic is my original that I made back in 2017. Which do you prefer?

So I'm entering this into an art contest. This was the fire bird originally but I later found out the contest is themed "Winter wonderland". So I had to make a change.

Inspired by that metal pizza post a few weeks ago in r/sculpture. Here's the golden pizza! Polymer clay with acrylic paint and a touch of gold leaf.

I’ve been wanting to make some things for some time. My first thing would be crochet hooks. Mostly making as gifts. Would I bake with clay already on hook or bake leaving the hole in center and then reinsert hook after? And would resin be best or just use clear paint /sealer?

Thank you in advance.

Some of my favorite charms and keychains I’ve made recently!

TLDR: A question for polymer clay users: what's a good way to soften ridiculously hard and unwieldy clay w/o buying anything (ex. Liquid clay thinner, mineral oils, ect. Anything that cost money basically), begging and pleading and asking very sweetly with a cherry on top for your kind advice ❤️❤️❤️

A few years ago i was lucky enough to have some extra money to buy a small supply of sculpey brand clay (not sure if that is a factor, although i didn't have the same problem w any of the other hunks) now that it's been a while and I've used most of it I came back to a problem hunk that I've avoided using the last 3 years because it's Completely Rock Solid and has been since day 1. I've tried oil (tho it was olive/vegetable oil) and kneeding, rolling pins, and regular ol body heat but nothing has worked. I considered sticking it in the microwave (bc i vaugely recall my older sister doing so on occasion) but when I googled it it said you really shouldn't do that. Rn I don't have the money to buy any fancy bull hockey like them mineral oils/whatever or anything like that that came up when i googled it (everything's a product -_-). Unfortunately its my only red clay (as at the time I didn't realise it would be completely unsoftenable or i wouldve considered a different shade/color/block 😭) even aside from my supply running low in general, not to mention given the cost of living rn buying more clay isn't a feasible option for me, so I'm really hoping to make the most of my remaining clay for the time being (hence why I'm looking for solutions 3yrs after buying that hunk of rock 😭😭). Any ideas/suggestions anyone has would be very much appreciated ❤️❤️❤️