- This will be a good time actually to talk about
detailing tools.
They're a little different.
Last week we used mostly
these loop tools which can cut in
and take out a lot of material at a time.
When you're detailing you do a bunch,
you use much smaller tools
I'll start with some of these loop tools
with rounded edges
or squared edges.
You can even take these
and use a little dremel disc
you know the cutting discs for a dremel
and carve little notches in here.
And you can use it as a
as a rake.
Can you see that?
- [Woman] Spin it around.
- Yeah, we're close.
You can use this as a rake, or as a smooth
tool.
And
then we'd get into even smaller loop tools.
Which are these, these are all made by Kemper Tools.
This is Number W21.
- [Man] (mumbling)
- Where at?
- [Man] Right over here.
- Right over here, okay.
They're all made by Kemper.
This is W25,
26,
and 21.
These are the three that I use the most.
You'll go through a lot of these because
it's very thin wire and on a hard clay
that have a tendency to break.
If that happens
sometimes you can jerry rig 'em
by adding some epoxy around.
But then it loses a lot of it's flexibility.
So it's kind of defeats the purpose.
And there's another loop tool
I believe these are all
I can't read that label anymore.
But I get most of my sculpting tools from
a store called Kit Craft in Studio City
and I think they have them all available online.
Or you just go right to Kemper Tools, Sculpture House.
Burman Industries, I think they have this stuff too.
This is just anther little loop tool
with a little more pointed heavier wire.
I use this for digging in wrinkles.
Here's another tool
which is a blackhead squeezing tool
that I got from some
from the drugstore.
It's just for pressing on, they use it for
dermatologists use it.
But it's very stiff wire.
And it's great for cutting in.
And then assorted
wax tools
which are very heavy duty stainless steel tools
with sharpened edges around the loop.
So they cut in really well.
And this is especially good.
What I used on this side of the head
for carving in the deeper wrinkles on the neck.
There's a pointed shape,
there's rounded shape,
they have square, rectangular shapes.
But the pointed and the rounded one I use the most.
And it really
will take out a lot of material in one swipe.
So these are also great for detailing.
And then, the smallest one that I use
it comes to a point
and it's just a little wire, triangular shaped wire.
And this is, I use this probably
for 90% of my detail work.
It's great for
for carving in scales.
For doing your wrinkle patterns.
What I like about it is it's a loop tool
so it takes out the material
rather than using just a
pointed tool
where it's just pushing the material around
and then you've got a bunch of
a lot more cleaning up to do on the edges.
But they're both, if you can't find that little loop tool
these will, any other tool
pointed tool will work
almost as good.
And those are the basic
tools that I use.
We'll get in a little later
with some solvents
and how to clean up the work.
I've made these, also, which
I've used in the past.
These are just the, it's just Super Sculpey
that I rolled out into a cylinder shape, cut it.
And then when it was baked and cool
I used a dremel tool with a round tip
and carved in all these little
scale patterns.
So then you would just take this
and press it in
to the clay
and you get a little scale pattern.
It's good if you're doing, look, if I was doing
this whole body, I would probably use this a lot.
But it tends to look
manufactured, a little non-generic
little.
But it is useful.
And sometimes though, the clay is very sticky.
So, you just take a little Saran Wrap.
I'll just do a little piece here.
Just take a little Saran Wrap
put that on the clay.
And then do this.
But, it's easy to make
it's a little time-consuming to do all these little holes.
But if you're doing a lot of material
and you don't want to sit there and sculpt
the one scale at a time that small
I would recommend it.
You might even use this a little bit underneath here.
And you can see
you can see the pattern here.
But,
and then I made another one here that's even
even smaller scales.
This one's kind of.
I used to use these a lot when I was working
with Sculpey, making dinosaur model kits.
Because on Sculpey it doesn't stick.
Oops, you didn't need the
and that's also what happens.
Here you lose a lot of these.
But you can see it definitely has a kind of cool
scale texture.
It works for small, very small scales.
For big scales, it doesn't.
You end up having to
fill in all the
you end up putting scales over scales
and then they don't look like scales anymore.
And then also, for the detail work
this stippling sponge comes in very handy
for cleaning up a lot of the little clay crumbs
and stuff, you get on there.
You can also use
you can also use these brushes you can get
at the hardware store.
I cut the end off of this one
so it's a little stiffer.
These are great when you're using solvents, alcohol.
I don't tend to use alcohol too much because it
it dries the clay out.
So I use
Turpenoid, odorless Turpenoid.
And this works great.
But you have to be very careful because it will
it really is aggressive in dissolving the clay.
So
another thing that's comes in very handy.
Let's say
we have some
let's say we have some scales here that we are carving in.
And the clay is getting too soft.
I use this duster spray for electronics
you spray the, clean the dust off.
Now be very careful with this.
But you want to turn it upside down
and just give it a blast of that and that will
this is like 150 below zero or something.
Don't spray it on your hands or in your face
or on somebody, because it'll cause
a serious burn, freezer burns.
And then you have a nice cold
clay that's very hard that you can then take
your loop tool
and just clean off those edges.
Just to make it look a little more natural
and less
carved in.