hey guys a lot of you guys have been wanting to see me do a thrift store makeover
so here we are my first ever thrift store makeover using something i got off ebay now
technically i know that's not a thrift store but before you start ragequitting let me just
say that i did go to a thrift store two of them actually all they had were some clothes some
candle holders and some lamp shades i just wasn't too inspired by any of it and i didn't feel like
wasting any more money on gas so i hopped onto ebay instead and that's where the horrors began
you see i came across this ancient artifact it's beautiful it's just an old clock not much to it
it's funny how people still keep clocks around when no one really uses them ever since phones
were invented you would think since demand for these things has gone down that they'd be cheap
but no it was 8.99 just kill me doesn't sound too bad to you well this glorified sundial
actually cost me about 20 with shipping yay so so obviously we're off to a great start
i then sketched out my idea it's very rough so if you can't tell it's supposed to be a troll
holding the clock he's just trying to have a good time oh no if you're new here and you own a clock
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i post new videos every friday i started off by scrubbing everything down a nice painful
sanding this is just going to help the paint and epoxy sculpt stick to the surface better
if you don't know much about epoxy it's kind of like play-doh except
not really at all it's much much nicer and it's air dry so you don't have to bake it
in the oven once you're done sculpting which is nice because you wouldn't want
to set the clock on fire unless of course you're trying to kill time
okay that's annoying i need to stop so this is pretty simple it's plain very ordinary looking
and maybe your grandpa likes it like this but i thought it could use a makeover the first thing
i sculpted were some hands for my guy to hold his clock they're looking pretty basic right
now but i'll go in with some more details later on the body of the clock the wood part actually
it's not really wood it's more like a fake plastic i definitely think twenty dollars for this was a
rip off i really hate paying for shipping but what's done is done anyways like i was saying
the body of the clock is going to be his shirt or coat i don't know what it is i was making his
shirt flaps whatever they're called but then i decided he was looking a little too sophisticated
and we can't have that now can we i clearly needed something to make him less cute and more creepy so
i gave him a front porch i took some tinfoil and layered that on top with epoxy for the stomach
i'm running low on epoxy as it is so i had to make every bit count i then added a belly button that's
right he's naked just kidding i'll be adding his top momentarily you'll have to excuse him it's the
day after thanksgiving so he's still a bit bloated i sculpted on the sides of his top and added
some buttons after that i gave him a belt he's wearing pants obviously because why else would
he need a belt but he doesn't really have much of a bottom half he's not perfectly proportional it's
it's um style i've made disproportionate things several times now so at this point it's just
becoming like a thing does that make sense no okay good i also decided he probably needs a pocket
watch yes because never mind the huge clock he's carrying around you're not good enough i do now
realize that it doesn't make much sense but i like the way pocket watches look and i felt it fits my
trolls aesthetic i guess he's a troll who likes to steal his specialty is stealing clocks and watches
that's his thing i don't know i just really wanted to give him a pocket watch so i gave him a pocket
watch i've always wanted a pocket watch so it's kind of like i'm living vicariously through him
just let me live okay anyways then i worked on the hands some more since he's a troll i thought it
only appropriate that he'd be blessed with hairy knuckles in fact he's got hair everywhere gorgeous
hairy chewy hair yum i also added some fingernails to really pull the look together they kind of
look like skeleton hands at this point but it'll look better when i start painting them
i drilled two holes in the bottom the pain may look excessive but it was fun and mostly necessary
you'll see why in a little bit moving on i made some big feet which normally would mean he also
has big shoes but he doesn't because trolls don't normally wear shoes typically they walk
around barefoot all their lives his toes may look a little spread out if you never wore shoes your
feet would look a lot more like his that's because toes naturally want to spread out but wearing
shoes brings your toes closer together so i stuck some bamboo skewers in his feet and wrapped them
in clay for the legs then i went in and added some more details to the feet some toenails and hair
again it's looking kind of crazy but it'll make more sense once it's painted then i attached
the legs to the body with epoxy so yeah i didn't film that whole process i accidentally did that
off camera sorry about that after that i moved on to sculpting the head and yeah i actually
had a lot of trouble with this part i started off by building the cheeks and the eye sockets
it started off bad and got progressively worse the thing with epoxy is you have to work quick
you can't take your sweet time and well that has its limitations i was trying to make my
troll creepy cute but this was just not it well normally i'm all about long live the horror and
all but this was going a bit far even for me wanna buy a watch so scratch that i ripped his face off
i'm starting over with polymer clay that way it won't harden until i bake it and i can spend
more time making my troll look exactly the way i want i was determined to make this look a lot
better than the atrocity i had just attempted i worked on giving him some chubby cheeks again
my girlfriend also has chubby cheeks and i think that's cute so that's kind of why i give a lot of
my characters chubby cheeks that's really cheesy but yeah i like her face plus it makes them look
kinda cartoony which i also like i thought about giving him a hypnotizing look like the one on the
magic changing painting but ultimately i settled on a worried open mouth kind of look kinda like
he just got caught stealing a clock and since every inch of him is already carpeted in hair i
didn't want his head to feel left out so i added a full head of poofy hair on top i've seen a lot
of trolls whose hair like sticks straight up kinda like it's been electrocuted it's very voluminous
so that's kind of the look i'm going for here i used one of my sharp pointy things to add texture
to the hair and eyebrows alrighty now that i'm done sculpting i'm just going to go in with some
clay softener and smooth everything out then i just have to bake the head and let it cool off
after attaching the head to the body i topped the troll off with a collar later i changed it to a
bow tie because i thought it was fitting and it made even less sense now it's time to paint
i didn't really have a color scheme in mind or anything i just kind of went for it i wanted him
to look a bit woodsy just because the clock is made out of wood or like fake wood but i wanted
to keep the same aesthetic so i went with a dark brown for his coat shirt thing and for his little
tiny booty shorts i painted them a light brown to go with his top so i just made a character that's
blue last week so you'd think for this week i'd choose a different color i love you so much i want
to kill you but no i decided my troll should have blue skin but it is a much much lighter shade of
blue so yeah they won't look related or anything and then of course there's the fact that a troll
and an ogre are completely different species i originally had planned to do something like the
beauty and the beast clock cogsworth with like a face on the clock and add some arms and legs but
ultimately i decided on turning the clock into a troll just because it's a lot more chaotic and
nonsensical and i don't know i think it's funny looking i wanted his hair to contrast his skin
color so i went with a dark blue and since i made his poof on top of dark blue i ended up
painting all the hair on his fingers and toes and stomach that same dark blue color it was very very
annoying trying to get into all the twists and turns the pesky little crevices it wasn't easy
for his fingernails i painted them a plain white color and went in with some pink for his cheeks
and bow tie i then painted on some details to make him look a little more realistic and cartoony then
i just did some more touch ups off camera oh yeah and let's pop the battery back in the
original clock was kinda plain outdated i think it definitely has more of a personality now it's
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