Cute Critter Tutorial ~ Lion

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Cute Critter Week ~ Bulldog Tutorial

Cute Critter Week: Snoopy tutorial

How to Sculpt a Realistic Polar Bear

Learn how to sculpt this great little polar bear with this video from Mont Marte Joe, the enthusiastic host of an Australian TV show.  Demo contains a lot of great tips for modeling with air-dry clay, however it doesn't show how much kneading he did.  Although a lot of kneading is not required with air-dry clay like it is with polymer clay, some kneading will help condition the clay and prevent cracks.   Joe is using white Mont Marte Air Hardening Clay to sculpt his bear. That brand of clay is available in Australia and India and probably places in between.

How to Make a Black & White Cat

Looks cute, quick and easy to do!

Butterfly

Thanks to agusyornet.com for this quick and easy tutorial.

1. Cut shape from flattened piece of clay, curl wings a little & let dry

2.  Use black Sharpie or acrylic paint to draw on wing pattern

3.  Paint in black pattern 

4.  Add white dots.

5.  Glue 2 wings together, body optional

How to Make a Clay Butterfly

This tutorial creates lacey butterflies using cookie cutters for shape and other implements to cut lacey holes.   This is actually a gumpaste tutorial from cake artist Nurainie Tan, but the steps would be exactly the same for creating these sweet butterflies from Creative Paperclay, cold porcelain or any other air dry clay that is easy to roll into a flat sheet.  You can skip the step where she dusts

How to Create a Clay Unicorn

This is a step by step tutorial by IndigoOcean to create a realistic unicorn (or a horse if you prefer).  Tutorial is in PDF format and includes lots of photos.   The artist takes you all the way from concept drawing, to creating an armature, sculpting the horse/unicorn, creating a mold and casting the sculpture.  You can skip the mold creation/casting process if you prefer, it's not a necessary part of this tutorial.  Just create your own one-of-a-kind sculpture instead!

Because the artist plans on creating a mold, he is using Plasteline clay, which is an oil-based clay which does not harden.   The Plasteline figure will be discarded after casting.   The author says:  "I'm not narrowing down the materials too much. The actual sculpting medium you use is entirely up to you, and this tutorial will focus on my process more than anything. I sculpt using many materials- polymer clay, air-dry stoneware clay, wax, plasteline, paper clay, and epoxy putty- but for all of them the techniques used vary little. This tutorial centers around designing, sculpting, molding, casting and finishing a piece."

Create a Dalmatian Puppy with Air Dry Clay

Simple, basic shapes are used to create this cute puppy with photos every step of the way to show you how.     Instead of a Dalmatian, you could use this pattern to make another kind of dog simply by changing the colors used.

Tutorial was translated to English from Spanish-language Porcelana Fria magazine and was written especially for cold porcelain paste, however, other types of air-dry clay may be used such as Creative Paperclay or the pre-colored clays like Hearty Clay, Makins Clay or Cloud Clay.    Enjoy!

Bullseye from Toy Story

Step by step photo tutorial to create the horse toy "Bullseye" from the movie Toy Story.  Materials needed are cold porcelain or other air-dry clay in white, sienna brown, saddle brown and black, Styrofoam balls in a few sizes, plus some wire, dowels, wood skewers or toothpicks to reinforce legs.

Make This Sleepy Puppy

Make this cute sleepy puppy with cold porcelain or other air-dry clay. Materials needed include:

Cold Porcelain (about 1 lb...500 gr)
Polystyrene or Styrofoam spheres No 4 and No 5  (1 for body and 1 for head)
Acrylic or oil paint to pre-tint white clay: Raw Sienna and Burnt Sienna
Sculpting tool & clay roller
Vinyl or water-based glue
Eye stickers (or paint the eyes)

Blushing powder  (pastels, scrapbooking powder or make-up)

Black permanent marker for "freckles"
Optional wood base

Acrylic paints for the wood base:  yellow and white

Acrylic paint to tint clay for "quilt buttons":  blue

Create Pink Pig Using Cloud Clay & Water Bottle

This cute pig shown above is the subject of Linda Peterson’s easy-to-make tutorial: How to Make a Farm Pig From Cloud Clay!  With some air-dry Cloud Clay, a plastic water bottle armature, and a little acrylic paint you can make this cutie pie pig!

Paper Mache Buffalo

Brian Bemisdarfer sculpts instant papier mache into his unique "Thathanka — Giver of Plenty" buffalo.  Pretty nice sculpt, don't you think?   Here's the step by step instructions for creating the buffalo.

The modeling material he is using is a dry powder that is mixed with water for an instant papier mache pulp. Either Celluclay or Sculptamold or something similar.    He does not appear to be using the paperclay product, Creative Paperclay but Creative Paperclay could be used!

Sculpting a Heron

Believe it or not, this beautiful Heron was sculpted from a gourd.   Actually it's made from several gourds that were carved, assembled and detailed with air-dry clay by Phyllis Sickles.   Phyllis shares her clay+gourd process in this series of step-by-step photos for "Sculpting the Heron".

Create a Clay Monkey

With some light brown and dark brown air-dry clay or cold porcelain, you can make the monkey shown above following the steps in this video.

Make a Cute Reindeer

Today we have a video demo showing you how to create a cute little reindeer with polymer clay.  But Air-Dry-Clay.com is suppose to be about air-dry clay, right?   It is.   This demo is a good one to use as an example of how to modify a polymer clay tutorial when using air dry clay.   The types of air-dry clays that work best for

How to Make a Cute Polar Bear

This video demo from Linda Peterson features a whimsical winter Polar Bear made with air-dry Cloud Clay. Cloud Clay is very soft and easy to use but dries to a hard, durable and matte finish in 24 hours or less.

A Couple of Stylish Cats made with Cold Porcelain

A cold porcelain tutorial from Biscuit magazine and the Brazilian site Artesanatonarede . Translated to English as best as possible.  Two stylized cats hugging a heart and each other!

These instructions call for homemade cold porcelain, but many brands of commercial air-dry clay would be suitable for this project.   This is also a good beginners project.