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I can't believe I actually finished a tutorial! I always start them but quit part way through, so this is quite a feat. It's huge- about 100 pictures. It is the entire sculpture from wire armature all the way down to hair. Just click "download" on the left hand side. Enjoy.For those who can't use PDFs, the tutorial is also online here: [link]
Let me know if anything is confusing or makes no sense. I've been on a lot of hydrocodone lately *bronchitis*
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This is so neat! I'll definitely use this in the future, thanks!
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Thank You for this tutorial!!! i'm going to try to make a sculpture with this!!!!
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Thank you so much fr this tutorial!
It's AMAZING, and I LOVE all your sculptures, they are so special and beautiful!
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Thankyou for making this awesome tutorial, Ive really enjoyed seeing all the steps involved 
I've very recently started making sculptures and Im hoping that at some point I will feel confident enough to try out your tutorial
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This is so helpful 
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Great noting more to expect, this really amazing tutorial and concept. Thumbs Up!
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I really want to do something like this, it looks like fun! OUTSTANDING JOB!
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WOW! A for effort! I would love to try this!
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I love how detailed you are about doing these sculptures ! Thank you so much for putting this up!
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This is amazing. I wish my hands were the friendly with clay!
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I have some weird feedback for you. I tried using your method with the floral tape to hold the tinfoil bulking together on the armature-- and just as in your tutorial there were cracks all over the sculpture. Prior to this I had never had a sculpture crack. I just now made another sculpture without floral tape, and no cracks. You may want to nix the tape from your recipe, it'll save you tons of headaches.
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When you work a lot on a sculpture, clay tends to come away from the metal armature leaving sometimes large internal air pockets which would lead to it breaking far easier if dropped. I've made virtually every sculpture in my gallery using floral tape, and I'm not going to stop because your sculpture cracked. Usually they don't crack. Cracking is caused by the sculpture being heated too fast or cooled too fast, or a smoother such as mineral oil being used.
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Omg I love you so much for making this. I just got some 14 gauge wire yesterday by accident and freaked out because I had no idea how to fasten the legs to the main wire x) Thank you.
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Wow this is really great! It helped me out a lot. I see all these cool sculptures on DA but the people never really explained how they did them.
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I can't thank you enough for this tutorial!
It's so easy to understand, and the pictures helps if I ever get in doubt if I've done it right~
Thank you sooo much
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THank you very much!!! i have to do a dragon scupture for Art in school and this helped me a lot!! thank U thank U thank U !!
you'll have a llama from me
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Thank you so much for taking the time to make this!
I have a question for you. Okay whenever I begin to paint my sculptures I notice little brush hairs or sometimes even dust collects on the paint I place on the sculpture. Even when I open a newly bought brush. Would you happen to have any tips how to prevent this?
Thanks!
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Hi there,
Firstly you need to buy good quality brushes. Most of the brushes I use cost between $5-30 each. Secondly you need to wash them really well before using them, that will dislodge any loose bristles. Dust sticking to your sculpture usually just means there's dust in the air, it's naturally going to stick to something sticky. Get a particulate air filter for the room you use for painting.
It's rare you're going to get an absolutely perfect paint job (with no "bits" in it) so how crazy you go over preventing such things is entirely up to you
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Hi Indigo-Ocean,
Okay thanks! This is sure to help a lot!
I appreciate you getting back to me!
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The whole time I was scrolling down, I was thinking, "this is going too look so freaking awesome!" Was I right? yes I was.
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Yay! I can now make another attempt at a unicorn sculpture! [link] <-- my first ever sculpture. No reference at all
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Good work! There's no shame in using reference though
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Haha thank you 
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This is really amazing. I love seeing how much effort is put into this. It makes me want to run out and buy stuff to sculpt with!! ^^
Very well done, both on the tutorial and the unicorn.
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This is purely amazing! I am very impressed by this! : ) Keep up the good work.
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This is a great tutorial, thank you for putting it up here
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Gorgeous, amazing, fantastic!!
Thank you for sharing, I always have the worst trouble with armatures, it helps to see other people's methods. And the epoxy putty for cracks in ingenious!
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Thanks for the awesome tutorial
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Awesome tutorial
I was wondering, the binder medium and epoxy putty - is there any website you could recommend for purchasing these?
I live in Sweden, and I've been searching the web for Swedish sites and stores, but also came across some international ones..
Seeing there's alot of different sites and brands to choose from, I thought I'd ask you for your opinion, if there's any website you'd recommend over others.
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What a great tutorial!
also didn't know DA could use PDF like this.
Thanks
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thank you for taking the time to make this amazing tutorial!
how much clay do you need for one horse?
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Wow! Your work is truly amazing!
I have one question for you, you say that you use polymer clay, would you mind telling me what kind or where you get it? I've made smaller sculptures before out of Fimo/Sculpey but it seems like your hands would get pretty sore having to soften up that much!
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Well, your hands do get sore softening it up and that's pretty much the nature of the clay. I use either mixes, or kato polyclay.
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I can't tell you how much I love this... o.o AmΓ‘zing..
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Great tutorial! But damn girl, you sculpted ALL over your tablet! lol
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amazing tutorial!!! been looking for one like this for ages
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