Hey /toy/. I'm trying to learn polymer clay sculpting with

Sculpting and life drawing classes at your local community college, or sometimes local art studios will do workshops if you live in a large enough city. Going to conventions is a good place to network and talk shop with artists. Otherwise, prepare your anus for 2-4 years of daily practice before you produce anything not super cringe worthy. You will either give up when you realize what you're doing is actually going to take a lot of hard work, or you will persevere and become a greatly under appreciated niche artist. This will not be profitable. Only try if you're really really dedicated and passionate about being an artist, othwise you're just wasting time

>>5973980
Thanks. Believe me, I'm more than autistic enough to stick to this sort of thing. I'll keep an eye out for conventions here and in neighboring states.
Does anyone know of any active polymer clay communities? The best I can find is a subreddit and that gets like a post a day. Surely I'm missing something.

A simple loop tool made with a bent, somewhat thick, steel wire glued to a pen body is what I use the most.

Using turpentine or a regular paint solvent with a soft brush geta rids of fingerprints and imperfections and smooths the clay.

I'll try finding useful pages I had saved tomorrow.

>>5974339
Here it is, this is my favorite "tutorial" for the concepts, tools and techniques used.
http://www.conceptart.org/forums/showthread.php/18287-Smellybugs-Maquette-Tutorial-completed!/page30?s=f1c0bac2babbadfaccf010141e4231b3
Scroll down.

>>5975109
Wow, that's really informative. I would've never thought about some of the stuff this guy does. The "make muscle shapes under the skin for realistic limb shapes" part was genius. Thanks!

>>5975109
thanks