Toy Sketches and Sculpting Research

Here are the preliminary sketches for one of the toy pieces:




As you can see - it is going to be a little alien dude packin a big gun and also in a running pose as tho he is carrying something

i have those cork/rubber/felt stoppers that will be mounted on that top hand - and if everything goes well - you should be able to arrange about 5 or 6 of these guys in a formation that they will be able to carry something

it would be a interesting decoration piece and might still be cool for kids to play with



as for research into sculpey techniques:

all i did was type 'Super Sculpey' into Google and I got sent to the main Sculpey site

they have tutorials and tips right there - which is great because they range from beginner to advanced

the best piece of advice (for my purposes) that i read was that one dude says that he uses index cards to put his pieces on and even puts the index card in the oven when he cooks it - and the index card does not burn

since these are going to be small pieces, i am going to employ that technique as well



the sculpey site is so ridiculously thorough with the tips and tutorials that i dont really see myself venturing too far away from it as far as research goes

if i have time tomorrow i might peep the site that the Instructor showed us in class (i have the link in my notebook)