Hi everyone! I'm Kenji and welcome to @LifeofClay. I'm doing NATURE INSPIRED sculpture here in my channel. I hope you enjoy the varieties of techniques and subjects I'm tackling here, of course with some short narrative facts of each and every sculpture I do. PLEASE SUPPORT MY CHANNEL by SHARING My VIDEOS, AND do not forget to SUBSCRIBE and hit the BELL ICON for more updates. Thank you so much everyone!
Great job on this one, you really are so smart, it's incredible to see the work you do and how much effort and thought you put in each creature you create! Please continue showing us your wonderful work!
Some cured polymer clay for example a texturing tool reacts from the plasticizer that leech out on the surface of a raw clay overtime, making it weaker and crumble. Whereas, epoxy don't and not affected by the plasticizer at all.
Thank you for sharing! That's an amazing sculpt, very inspiring. I might give this a try myself soon :) However, as someone researching cephalopod suction cups I cant help but point out two minor mistakes regarding the squid anatomy. The 8 smaller appendages are called the "arms", while the word "tentacle" is reserved for the 2 longer appendages with the suckers at the end, on the tentacular club as you mentioned. These tentacles are used for rapidly grabbing prey that are out of their arms' reach and bringing them closer. Additionally, while often described in literature as being made up of chitin, this is merely an outdated assumption. Chromatography has shown chitin presence in the ring is very unlikely. Instead, the sucker teeth rings are made up of a protein family called "suckerin", which consists of similar building blocks as proteins commonly found in insects. I also have a question. When painting before baking you use pigment powder. What is the difference you experienced between using pigment and regular acrylic paints in this part of the process? Again, lovely video and lovely sculpture. Subscribed and looking forward to seeing more from you!
thank you so much my friend, especially for the added clarification and updated information regarding this amazing creature. And regarding your question about the painting method, pigment powder shading adds undershade or what I call "precoloring" and it gives your eyes a color guide on how to top it with the final paints which is also dilluted and keep every layer translucent until you get the final color you desire. it can be applied in different color combinations or layers too.
This channel deserves so much more attention!!! I absolutely love nature art, and I aspire to be an entomologist so this is right up my alley. Keep up the great work!
Kenji, my friend!! As you know I've already recreated this beautiful monster already and sold him a while back (with full credit of design and idea given to you), but I didn't do the eyeball the same way you did.... The iris in particular. I just painted the iris onto a smooth surface. It looked great, but it felt like it was missing something. Anyways, I am currently working on a new eyeball monster of my own design and decided to use your iris design and have sculpted in the grooves and the "veiny" features. I will share the finished product with you when it's completed. You're always showing me new techniques to add to my sculpting and are criminally under rated and deserve many more subs.
thank you so much dear friend! I'm really happy to hear that. thank you so much for rooting on me, I feel truly honored. Wish you more blessings to come. And please don't forget to show me your next project once its done, okay😊
I'm sorry for that, this video was made years ago and I'm not as good as I am now way back there. but I hope you may enjoy my latest videos rather, of which I could say are more well filmed than this older videos I have. Thank you😊
Beautiful work. At least this way you can handle these beautiful Old World tarantulas without having to fear a very painful bite that results in disturbing muscle cramps lasting for days :)
Looks better than all "professional" museum models I have seen of Architeuthis dux! Interestingly, in its deep sea habitat it seems to have a beautifully shiny silver color - at least in the footage recorded by Kubodera and his team in 2012. Great work!
Greetings from Philippines! Thanks for having you here in my channel, dear friend. The materials I've used in all of my Sculptures are generally Polymer Clay (oven-baked clay) with different brands.😊
