awww sure 🥰 welcome!!

​@@the.sarahworldyou are soo sweet And kind thank youuu❤❤❤

thank you! 🥰 I‘m glad you enjoyed the video!

sooo pretty!!! and im going to make suzuran this way! thank you for inspirations

I‘m not sure who/what suzuran is but I‘d love to see your creations 😄

thank you for telling me 🥰 I‘m never sure if it‘s too little or too much explaining 😄

Perfect as you are!

aww you‘re so kind! 🥰

ohh thank you so much 🥰

Hi! :) these ideas sound so cute!! I think I‘ve seen the tic tac toe one before but I didn‘t think to try it 😅 definitely need to look into that!! Right now I‘m working on a little trinket dish, but the mushroom one sounds really cool, also maybe as decoration on the wall and you can store your jewelry on it 🤔 thanks so much 🥰

Hi 😊 welcome!! Ohh thats a good tip with the name, I always get confused which clay has which names 🧐 Need to include this one as well then! Soo with the mold. My oldest figures are about 1 or 1 1/2 years old and they never changed after they dried fully even though a lot of them are in turkey (the country 😅) now (because presents) and its veeerrryyy humid there. They just tend to be a bit more squishy the more humid the air is. But I would never keep them in a bathroom that could be problematic 😅 So I wouldn‘t worry about finished figures. If you want to make them really save, try covering them with UV resin :) But always wear a mask! It‘s a different story with the fresh clay though. I keep mine mostly in the original packages and try to keep as little air in there as possible. I had a big tub of clay which got moldy after there was just a bit left on the bottom. And also some clay I revived where I used too much water got moldy - but it was A LOT of water so that was on me probably 🤔 I hope my essay helped! Feel free to ask about anything :)

@@the.sarahworld Hi there, thank you for answering my question! I'm glad to know that it has not grow mold in your situation. I did think of coating with resin, however- I think for anime sculptures in particular, it doesn't look as appealing with a gloss all over it. It kinda depends on what type of work you make. But for small charms, or cute stuff that is for sure a great idea! I heard too that fresh/unused clay can get mold. I have sealed them in air tight bags in addition to their original bag. lol. I hope it will make them safe. By the way. Im not 100% sure if foam clay and super light clay really is the same. I think they are, but Im new to it. Yesterday I made my first figure. It was kind of hard to work with, because already in the process of shaping the body, I noticed the clay already drying. After I completed my small figure (which took about 4h in total) the figure was pretty much dry! I don't know if it will harden later. It felt really light and actually a bit foamy-ish. (So I assume it is foam clay) I wonder if you have some good tips for something that seem really simple. I don't know if it apply to all clay, but at least this foam clay I was using. When trying to make a sphere, well...any shape. There will be this "wrinkly" side - like, you can see the folded parts that has been pressed/flat. It is ugly on that side... (I dont know how to better explain, but I hope you know what I mean) I tried to smooth it out with water. But the result wasn't ideal. So you have any suggestions (or maybe make a video tutorial?) about how to make each part really smooth. I tried to look online, but they all show a very smooth work process. It cannot be just me? Sorry for the lengthy message lol. I am very enthusiastic as a beginner. :) Thank you again for posting these inspiring and helpful videos and of your hard work! ^^

Soo I did a bit of research and testet something similar to mod podge as a sealer, because they also have a matte option, but my results were just okay - it attracted a lot of dust and stays a bit sticky still after a day of drying 🤔 For now my best results are still with uv resin, but I'm going to look for a matte option too, if I find something I'll let you know! :) And I also looked into the Super light air dry clay, which seems to really be the same as foam clay! And there are some youtubers making anime-style figurines and they seem to always use some water while sculpting to avoid the little cracks from drying. I definitely have to experiment more to find out the best techniques for sculpting even complicated forms. Because the clay dries really really fast, altough it takes a few more days for it to be really fully dried. I also saw some people use water to smooth out the surface after the figure dried a bit, but thats tricky too because if you do this too much the clay gets "crumbly" and sometimes the color afterwards isn't the same as before. But for really simple forms I always start with a ball, which is the easiest to get wrinkle-free. For this I knead the clay really well until it's really soft. Then I start forming a ball - In the beginning I press REALLY hard while forming the ball and get lighter and lighter - this way I get wrinke-free clayballs :) I show this in some of my videos, but I just can't remember which right now... Oh and I think most of those youtubers who make figurines never cover them with anything, or I never saw it. Maybe it's really not necessary? I hope it helped a bit :) I'm always happy to talk about art-stuff!

@@the.sarahworld Thank you for the suggestion. I will try and see how it works. Last time I was blending the colors in, and i just mixed the clay until the color was even. I didnt know you need to knead it. I was also making a ball shape, but even that has side with wrinkles... :( Maybe Im doing it wrong, yeah I couldnt figure out how to make a wrinkle free ball. Even if it sounds so simple. I even tried to look up tutorial, but there wasnt any. Most clay videos are just sped up versions of people making, usually not much comment. But I think the small tips and tricks (that is not noticable or explained in those sped up videos) would be so useful to know. I wish those experienced ppl could share. :( I like to make drawings too, so I look at art videos. I think commentary is always helpful. Because in the video, you may just see someone drawing a circle. But in actual, it can be a technique if you move with your arm, wrist or hand. Or even the pen pressure. That you could not know without the person explaining it.

I can totally understand :) As I'm making more and more videos, I sometimes feel like I explain too much, so in my older videos I tell simple things in more detail I think. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/bZeTn6aWxsjPh5c.html Here at about 5:20 I show how to roll a wrinkle-free ball :) And in a lot of other videos too I think! But I really press hard in the beginning, I think that's the important part. But even this simple thing took me a lot of ugly clay-flowers to find out, so don't worry about that! Even if you know a technique it will always take some time till it comes easy 😅 I totally get the drawing reference - I also love to draw and it took me ages to find out that they use their arm not just their wrist and that this even matters 🥲

So this is actually a real problem with Foam Clay, especially Bohs I noticed. Smoothing out a wrinkle with your fingers is difficult, the clay has to be really fresh and not a bit dry, otherwise you‘ll just create more wrinkles. So my go-to method is avoiding wrinkles from the start by working with really basic shapes. But if you‘ve watched my giant-totoro video you will see a lot of wrinkles there. Using water doesn‘t work so well with this clay, if you really want it smooth I think sanding it when its dry is a good option (always wear a mask for this). But since this is actually a really interesting topic, I may be testing it out in a future video! Who knows, maybe the ultimate method is out there 😁

I really need an english dictionary 😂

@@the.sarahworld i was 'really' joking😋.. you are alright my dear 😊