Polymer Clay Bunnies
Make a cute bunny figurine for your friends or for your terrarium.
Posted by aneniine
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So, in last summer i discovered my new ability of making small realistic looking animals out of clay. (My old art teacher was wrong when she said that i have no talent for sculpting! :D ) It happened when i was trying to make a bunny for my mini terrarium. I also made another one from clay scraps.
I made tutorial on how to make these bunny figurines! Hope you like it! This tutorial is very detailed,as i was working very hard on it. :]
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You Will Need (5 things)
- Tooth Pick
- Acrylic Paint
- Polymer Clay or any other clay. You can use clay scraps for this.
- Needle
- Clear Nail Varnish
Steps (23 steps, 30 minutes)
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First, get your polymer clay - bigger ball for body and 2 smaller ones for the paws. If you don't know how big pieces you should take, look at the photo.
*If you're going to paint your finished bunny, then it doesn't matters if your clay has other colorful clay pieces or other stuff in. -
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Take your biggest clay piece and roll it to an oval shape.
*If your not going to paint your bunny or don't want any fingerprints showing on it, then use rubber gloves for your hands. Also, you should use clean clay then. ;)
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Then start to shape the head and neck like so. Don't seperate these parts from each other.
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Keep shaping the head, so it looks like head and also shape small front paws the same way.
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For the back paws, take your two small clay pieces. Roll each one into balls and then make cone-like shapes.
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Then flatten a bit so they start to look like paws.
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Then fold the thinner part to the thickest part of the paw. Well, just look at the photo and see. ;)
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Your bunny should look like this before adding the back paws. I forgot to mention that you also have to shape a small rabbit tail on the back.
Make sure that most of the bunny parts are shaped by now, because doing this later may be harder. -
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Carefully attach the legs to the bunny's body, make sure you don't squeeze the bunny.
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For the ears, take another 2 small clay pieces, smaller than the first ones. Roll each clay piece like shown in the picture.
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Then flatten them a bit, so they start to look like long bunny ears.
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Shape the ears by taking a needle and folding the narrow end of the flattened ear over the needle a bit.Don't press the ear completely,it should look like in the photo.
(I hope you understand what i was trying to say) -
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If you didn't understood, here you can see the ears better.
Now to attach the ears. I know that there must be a better way to attach ears to the head, but for my first bunny (im showing you in pictures), i poke two larger holes with a needle in the head and somehow sticked the ears in them. -
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I attached them like so. When you have added the ears, you can position them however you like them to stand.
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Then i added smaller details for the bunny's face - i draw a mouth,nose and eyes with a needle. When you do this,don't push the needle too hard in the clay.
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This is the basic bunny that should look like this by now, if you are also making it. ;)
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You can add some fur detail with needle (however,you can also make this effect with painting), or you can sculpt the bunny a bit better,add some more work to it. This was my first bunny i made, so i didn't know so much about making them.
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I used wet paint brush here, but for the furry look effect, use dry brush and paint. Just stroke the paint over your bunny.
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After baking your bunny, go and find some paint! I used acrylic paint for my bunnies.
*If you wasn't planning to paint your bunny, you are finished by now. :)
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And don't forget to paint cute paws to your bunny!
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Also add some light paint to nose and eyes! You can use permanent marker for eyes. ;)
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When the paint has dried, you add a coat of clear nail warnish to your bunnies if you like. Or atleast put some on the eyes to make them shiny.
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And your bunny figurine is done! You can put it for display or place in a terrarium! You can also try to make different animals based on this how to. =]