I wrote a how-to book called Creating Fantasy Polymer Clay Characters published in March 2004 byRockport Publishers Inc.
This
is a craft project instruction book featuring step-by-step project
instructions for a dozen characters. The projects consist of hundreds of
pictures showing all the stages and details of the process, and text
instructions complementing the pictures.
Here you
can see some of the creatures I show how to make in the
book.
Below is the list
of all the projects in the book. You can see many examples of similar
creatures at funclay.com.
The idea is that having completed the lessons in the book you would be able to
create characters like them.
The bird project you might be
familiar with, it is a remake of "How To Make Bird With Teeth" I made
for my friends at Polymer Clay Central (PCC). It is a stepping
stone for all the following projects. The skeleton project is an extension of
the skull one at PCC. The rest of them are all new.
You can find out more and browse the table of contents
and sample pages here, at Google
Books.
And here are links to some of the possible extensions of the
projects in the book.
PROJECT 1: A Bird with Teeth - lesson example sample
birds
PROJECT 2: The Easter Bunny - examples
PROJECT 3: A Basic Character - Jester with
Jack-in-the-box - examples
PROJECT 4: A Little Devilish
Creature Holding a Heart (for St. Valentine's Day) - examples
PROJECT 5: A Dinosaur/Dragon
- examples
PROJECT 6: A Knight - examples
PROJECT 7: A Wizard/Magician
- examples
PROJECT 8: Santa - examples
PROJECT 9: A Horse/Giraffe -
examples
PROJECT 11: Trutlio the Troll - examples
PROJECT 12: An Advanced Character - A Goblin Pirate - examples
Sidebar: Going Further: Making "Stories" with the Characters - examples
You can get the book online in the following major bookstores:
