Sculpting Making body smooth

I use lots of sand paper for making it smooth. Try to find 3 or for different grade of sand paper.

If its oven bake clay the you can sand with water And sand paper it makes it much faster

 

After sanding the doll, he coated it in Cloth Clay,
detailed on page 14 of the tutorial.

 

He's using paper clay, which is extremely easy to sand. I use a 150 grit paper then work my way down to a 600 grit. It looks like he used the cloth clay without any cloth as a primer for the finished product.

If you are going to cast paperclay you MUST seal it. The silicone when it is wet(after you mix it) will seep into the unsealed paper clay and ruin your original AND the mold. Same with plaster or any water soluable clay or original.

For super sculpey, uh, well, I hope you have strong arms and wrists. SS is not the easiest or quickest thing to sand. The left over grit gets into the paper and clogs it up, so it's best if you use a wet-dry paper and sand it with running water in the sink and even then it's going to take a while to smooth it out. I suggest smoothing it before baking as much as you can. You can take a little olive oil to the unbaked original and rub it into the clay to create a more slip-like surface and it's much much easier to get out the imperfections. For long pieces, like the legs, that need to be as smooth as possible I took a pencil and rubbed it over the olive oil coated ss. That helped to get out minor imperfections VERY well.

 

batchix: that was really helpful information ^_^ too bad I've already baked my pieces so it's taking me ages to get them really smooth as I thought I could easily sand off the little uneven bits when they were baked. Ah well. Guess I'll have to try and get them smoother on my next Ball jointed doll ^^;;

 

I wish I'd known before I baked mine too. X3 I didn't figure that out till I was nearly done! You can use a dremel to sand also, and on long parts, like the legs a sanding block(not a sponge but a hard block that you put strips of sand paper in) works pretty well. :3 It can be done, it's just slow going.

 

here's some advice...take a stone and polish it with sandpaper one day.

afterwards...any sanding you take to anything else will be such a piece of cake XD

 

now would this be point or the eraser ?