Dragon Pendant
I always wanted to sculpt a dragon, which lead me to making this. Made this Dragon pendant inspired from a 2D Dragon anime image.
Supplies
- Polymer Clay
- Exacto Knife
- Clay rolling pin
- Smooth surface to roll clay over, preferably Glass.
- Mini silicone sculpting tools
- Mini metal ball tools
- Bake & bond
- Small paint brush
- Chalk pastel
- I kneaded the black polymer clay ( I used Fimo Professional ) to make it soft.
- drew a dragon 2D image roughly.
- Started to shape the dragon slowly putting the clay over the drawn image to match the proportion.
- I baked the piece in oven ( according to the clay package instruction's temperature ) many times in between sculpting so that while I touch other parts to sculpt more, the remaining piece doesn't get mooshed. baking the piece make the pieces hard, so it stays in shape while I sculpt other parts.
- After baking each time, I use Bake & Bond on the new spots where I start to resculpt, using the Bake & bond as glue.
- I roll very narrow pieces of clay snakes and used those to sculpt the extensions and spikes where it's needed.
- used exacto knife to mark and cut clay pieces where it's needed.
- Sculpted the chest front with a thin sheet and the tracing repeated likes with exacto knife
- After the shape of the dragon body was done, it wa time to sculp the wing.
- I Sketched the wing on a wax paper, then rolled a sheet of black clay, put the paper over the clay, traced the winch skeleton lines over the clay and then removed the paper. over the traced lines on the clay, I cut out the wings accordingly. Attached the wings on the back of the dragon body. used Bake & bond aswell on the attaching spots.
- Baked it.
- Then I rolled out thin sheets of black clay again. Applied Bake & bond over the wings and attached thin pieces of sheets over the wings. dotted with metal ball tool to create some texture.
- Baked again.
- Rolled out a mixture of white and more of translucent clay. attached in between the vacant spaces of the wing skeleton. used bake & bond on the attaching spots aswell. then brushed the edges wih purple chalk pastel.
- Have put tiny clay on the back and inserted tiny eyepin, to attach the black chains.
- Did the final Bake, attached black chain on the eyepins and DONE!
Full Video of making!