I got some Sculpey III 010 Translucent and some Premo! Sculpey 5323 Green, because I wanted to test out just how translucent this kind of polymer clay would be once cooked.

It ended up being not very translucent at all. Especially, because I baked it for too long and it ended up yellowing. Whoops.

I also learned, for next time I use this stuff, that I have to refrigerate the polymer clay before I use it, or it will pretty much melt in my hands as I try to work it. Which is very strange, because you bake it to make it harden.

Incidentally, I have no idea what the difference between Sculpey III and Premo! Sculpey is. They have about the same texture and they have the same bake temperature and bake length.

I’ve made myself an eye construction kit, so that, instead of starting from scratch, I can just edit the layers of the above eyes with the colours and textures that I want.

Quick eye tutorial:

1. radial gradient
2. darker-coloured ring
3. texture
4. stroma
5. pupil
6. reflections

I picked up some texture mediums on a trip through the US and this is me testing them out.

By the by, if anyone has a large format scanner they don’t need anymore, I could haul it away for you, maybe?

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