Gods of Thunders

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Well, it took quite a while to get this one out… but it’s finally here! Hope you enjoy the video, and please do let me know what you think of it in the comments :)
Technical stuff:
- Sculpted using Chavant NSP Medium and Hard clays
- The sculpt took about 28 sessions to finish.
- Armatures are made of aluminum wires, except for Raijin’s leg which has steel reinforcements.
- The peg holding up Raijin’s leg is made of wood, surrounded by epoxy putty.
- The sculpture stands roughly 21” tall counting the base, and about 12”x12” wide/deep
- It took about six sessions to get Thor’s upper body right… or as right as I was willing to take it anyway
- Raijin’s body went much faster, though his pants also took several sessions.
- This is the first time I’ve sculpted a real base, and I’m quite happy with the result, even though it came out of a giant fail.

[@aaronireland9267]

I love the compositional decision to have Thor blocking with only one arm, it really speaks to his strength, and more importantly his confidence

[@DrGaruda]

What a Master Piece 🔥

[@ArtChongArt]

Whoa! Thanks, Dr! This is quite an honor. I watch your channel all the time. You're one of the main inspirations that got me to start my channel, so thank YOU!

[@PekoXXL]

@@ArtChongArt hey art.. how can dr garuda paint his work? hes using plasticine. i really want to learn. i cant even find the brand hes using. im so lost. maybe you could fill me in :(

[@ArtChongExtra]

@@PekoXXL Hey Peko, as far as I know, Plasticine, Plastiline, Plastilina, basically most oil-based clays are quite similar with some variation in firmness, smoothness, elasticity, etc. I think what matters most isn't the brand but rather just to find one you can easily buy, and that is economical for you. I happen to use Chavant NSP because I can easily find some in my area (Los Angeles) and I prefer it after trying a few brands. Unless you take a class, you'll probably have to be prepared to experiment a bit to find what works best for you. There's a learning curve with every medium so don't give up too soon if you can't quite control the clay at the start. My first sculptures are basically blobs compared to what I can do now :) As for painting... just paint! I can't speak for Garuda and I don't know if he has any special preparations he makes.. but as I understand it, acrylic paint will stick to oil-based clay just fine. The only thing you have to be aware of is that oil-based clays never truly harden, so you will have to handle them with some care, especially if you plan on transporting them at some point in the future. Hope this helps, and if you do decide to start sculpting, please feel free to share/tag me on IG!

[@PekoXXL]

@@ArtChongExtra oh my god thankyou so much man! i'll tag you when its done. looking forward to your next video 😃

[@JavaArtStudio]

@@ArtChongExtra wow.... dr garuda is here on this channel. I think nsp chavant is more difficult to shape because of the sticky texture on the carving tool while dr garuda uses a material that has more wax layers so it doesn't stick to the tool when used. very happy to see your video and dr garuda....

[@ArsVitCrafts]

Your channel was love at first sight, man. Incredible work!

[@ArtChongArt]

I appreciate that! Keep working on your sculpts too! :)

[@Minecraftattic4u]

Excellent follow up sculpt. And yes, seeing the struggles of someone as talented as you, makes the rest of us feel better... like we aren't completely alone in the "how can I save this piece of sh*t?" thinking. Thanks for the great look into your process.

[@ArtChongArt]

Thank you! Rest assured, the "how can I save this piece of sh*t?" thinking is something we all share :)

[@letterbees6250]

In my opinion this isn't to long, because it is not only the sculpting and the epic reveal but also the struggel that you as an Artist go through and the evolution the sculpture does take with it. In most points i did think that it was awesome sculpture but then you say "no this doesn't work for me" and than it keeps getting better and better until it is epic. It is also interesting how the dynamic from the sculpture changes through the video. Because of all this it is so fun to watch your videos because you have a very good idea (that is just epic and no one has done before as an sculpture) and it gets better and better through the video and let you watch it to the and without skipping parts (because there are no borring parts) and make you feel wholesome after watching it. And because you know the process this sculpture was going through, makes you respect the endresult even more All in all it is an video with a solid idea, much struggling and trying out and than the reveal of the finished sculpture and this is just very cool to watch. (I'm very sorry for my bad english but I hope it is understandable)

[@ArtChongArt]

Thank you so much! You're very kind and yes your English is very understandable :) I would say that I hope to not struggle as much in the future, but I don't think I'll ever stop trying to push myself, haha. Thanks again!

[@JCArules13]

@@ArtChongArt Struggling is how we get better. It's about progress, not perfection!

[@PailinsKitchen]

This is amazing!!!!

[@filipdutina4654]

two videos already my fav youtube channel gimme more gimme more

[@ArtChongArt]

I'm working as fast as I can! Thank you for watching :)

[@madmakes7993]

I've been working on a sculpture. My first time touching clay in a decade. This channel is a great inspiration to keep at it. I enjoy your explanation of your thoughts on design. Keep it up! Love it!

[@ArtChongArt]

Thank you! I'm glad you enjoyed it. Feel free to tag me on IG if you post your sculpts there :)

[@Kane609]

it's easy to see how much effort you put into your sculpts and videos, they're really awesome man

[@ArtChongArt]

Thank you! It truly was a lot of effort, haha

[@markwilliams8532]

I think your amazing. It all looks cool to me since I know nothing about sculpting. You inspire me to try it .

[@ArtChongArt]

Thank you, Mark :) I make these videos with the hopes that they will be interesting to non-sculptors, so it's very gratifying to know that you do enjoy them.

[@ronferguson9695]

Such a talent! Watching your videos gives me so much joy and always remember beauty is in the eye of the beholder!!

[@ottodraws3256]

youve inspired me to start sculpting, i was already an artist and now i wanna do this aswell

[@rodeastell9726]

Excellent work Art ... our fails are just part of our research and development to reach perfection .. and perfection you certainly achieved. Thank you for the video and your time. I'm new to Chavant and I'm just waiting on an order of medium .. now wish I had a block of hard coming too for fine detail as you recommended. .. your video was research and I learnt from it. Thanks again.

[@ArtChongArt]

Thank YOU for watching, Rod. I’m glad you got something out of it, though my aim isn’t to teach, just share my own journey as an artist :) Btw don’t feel like you have to have hard grade for fine details. You can do quite a lot with Medium. In fact, if you’re not used to Chavant, you’re probably better off sticking with medium for a while, because it will help you learn how to control the material better. Trying to combine hard and medium clays to start can be quite disruptive to the process. When you make some sculptures please feel free to tag me on Instagram. Would love to see what you come up with!

[@rodeastell9726]

@@ArtChongArt Thank you Art.

[@dustindyson8390]

You did Raijin really good I want to check this video to learn how to make a Raijin statue

[@Jojo_le_poireau]

Your work is amazing, the video was funny, educational, interesting and the finished piece is epic. Awesome work, I had a really really great time watching your video. ;)

[@ArtChongArt]

Thanks Juliette. I'm glad to know you enjoyed the video :)

[@rudisentosa8238]

Awesome... I like your art ❤❤❤

[@marko_g_korenski]

Such a amazing artwork! 🤩👌

[@zbigniewmasternak3225]

Awesome . Love it

[@ArtChongArt]

Thank you :)

[@____9029]

この人の動画もっと見られるべきだと思う

[@ArtChongArt]

Thank your for watching! Unfortunately I can't read Japanese, but thank you regardless :)

[@kukoshu]

Funny, what you call design fails, i call entertainment. Its quite cool to see the changes you decide to make and the process of deciding them. To the eyes of a complete amateur as myself, the diorama was already epic from the start! Loved it and im already waiting for the next video! Cheers from Brazil!

[@ArtChongArt]

Haha, I'm glad the fails were entertaining! Thank you for watching and hopefully the next video won't take two months to do lol

[@cameoflores6744]

Awesome. I feel like if you did a more rounded type of stylized clouds that would have been a better fit for the base. Why don’t you sketch your poses first?

[@MelancholicMan22]

Anatomy and faces are easily the hardest things to do in any medium

[@aayushs.taehyung4631]

Please make a masterpiece of Goddess Durga killing Demon Mahishasura. 🙏🙏 That'll make my day. ❤️❤️

[@imadturner3562]

Amazing😭

[@jontyhinchliffe6958]

I struggle so much with human anatomy, its why I prefer modelling really grotesque monsters cause then if someone complains I can say it was meant to look like that 😂

[@ArtChongArt]

😂😂 Yeah I can totally relate. I've definitely done the same

[@richardlenchus7776]

Most awesome artist. Shared his thought process and failures. Wonderful expierence to go on this journey. I cant even make hair, beard, or a face with expression I envy the entire process Great job. Fantastic imagination.

[@vanessafernandes8673]

You make it look so easy 😭😭😭

[@ArtChongArt]

Thank you, but I assure you it was not easy 😂

[@jacksondavis3284]

Just found the channel. I love this! And as an Illustrator it is perspective on the anatomy I am drawing, it's trying to make the form look 3D on a 2D surface while considering all of the musles and there shapes, zbrush helps figure that out as does reference photos

[@ArtChongArt]

Oh yeah... foreshortening is like a special skill in itself for illustrators. Hats of to you guys. It's something I never have to deal with lol. Thank you for watching!

[@ItzFmod]

I'm some what of an artist, my favorite thing to do is just draw in lead black and white, some might find it boring, but it's my thing. And the thing that I find the most difficult to do is faces, so I like drawing people without face or maybe masks

[@Im_Metal_Rick]

Awesome stuff. I love your channel. I was wondering where you got those steel tools, the little spatulas. And how do you get the clay flat and square so you can add stuff like clothing and armored panels?

[@rhedskiddel2282]

"muscular bearded guy" nah, according to mythology thor is a huge dude with a beer belly who's immensely strong

[@tinylights3328]

Amazing! I wonder if changing raijin’s stand to bamboo would look like

[@ArtChongArt]

Thanks Russel :) That just gave me an idea for some mid-air fighting in a bamboo forest! Hope you don't mind, haha

[@dbdrebirth]

I mean i know i'm two years late but you could have definitely saved the stylized clouds with cotton balls pulled apart and glued on

[@Micca_]

I love your videos ❤❤❤❤

[@theodoresherman5707]

Norse Thor is always depicted wearing like a tunic

[@Laura_shard]

Theres something so motivating about seeing the process of a great work including all the fail attempts and scrap ideas

[@ArtChongArt]

Thank you Bruno :)

[@Eryklawyd]

You can put the Raijin above on "Torii" like he's defending the god's realms entrance would work nicely too. Great Job man.

[@ArtChongArt]

ah yes... that would be another great idea I should've tried. Maybe I'll do Shingami vs. Hades in the future and incorporate that ;)

[@JUNIOR-qp3hj]

Booooooom👍 That's great😍

[@ArtChongArt]

Thank you :):)

[@garystone8384]

To be perfectly honest, I didn't think the "swirls" looked like poop, I figured maybe if you had put minute spikes all around or even carved etchings into it, it could've made the difference and really amped up the design altogether maybe?

[@garystone8384]

Maybe some norse or even Japanese letters or Runes?

[@ArtChongArt]

Thanks for the suggestion and thank you for watching! Maybe something more abstract would've been better indeed :)

[@jaygemklocx2578]

I recommend finding references for clothing of an existing culture. Even games that feature these features like God of War 3? 4? The one with norse mythology lol

[@ArtChongArt]

I think you're thinking of God of War number 4 except without a number lol. I actually lifted my Thor's boots right from Kratos in that game :P Thank you for watching!

[@TimeForIdea]

Great! You are a very funny and interesting person. I like your content. Thank you for that and keep up the good work!

[@brittg9987]

god abt the softness of clay...i work with polymer clay but i haven't really found the exact clay that hits the right hardness for me. (well i did, but they stopped making it, f in chat for fimo poppen...will have to switch to epoxy sculpt eventually) but yeah, if i like something i'll end up baking it so i don't lose it, since i'm about as clumsy as you are, and i can never get it back the way i want it and end up overworking it LOL also yeah, i totally hit moments where i think it looks great, i bake it, i leave it for a few days, come back, and OUGH i hate it! then when i try to sand stuff off or carve it off, sometimes i lose parts i like, and yikes. disaster. even when its still soft the clay can stretch the wrong way, ruin what I've worked on! and i've only really done busts so far, watching your giant backgrounds is just...pain 😬 but it turns out great in the end, i love how much work goes into the composition!! this was such a cool idea, too. can't wait for next time!

[@ArtChongArt]

Thanks AJ :) My first two pieces were in Sculpey and yea... I feel your pain. It's a good medium but I change my sculpts up wayyyy too much for polymer, haha.

[@donnacarier264]

Wow! Need more videos! I love watching you.

[@ArtChongArt]

Thank you! I'll try to be faster! 😭😭

[@kimodomae7917]

I can't wait for your another project.. And That's Amazing bro.. 👍 👍 keep it up..!! 😁 😁

[@ArtChongArt]

Thanks! I can't wait for the next one to finish either 😅😅

[@burski23]

Remember me when you hit 100k

[@ArtChongArt]

Please remember ME in a few years if I ever get that far, haha.

[@V3ntu97]

Great video! I'm glad to see that I'm not the only one that changes the pose 10 times during a sculpt. Any tips on sculpting open hands?

[@ArtChongArt]

Thanks! For hands... I don't have any real tips unfortunately. I've never had a very difficult time with them. I think it's because hands tend to not have a lot of muscle and once you get the bones down you're most of the way there. So I guess if there's a tip there's that. Pay attention to the mechanics of the hand, the sizes of the various palm bones and how they are usually at least a little concave. Hands are more dimensional than most drawing tutorials make it appear, I think.

[@thayer750]

How does Chavant medium hold up after it's finished compared to hard? I'm a beginner so pretty much everything I make ends up looking like a lumpy ball (maybe my clay is broken?) so I was thinking about picking up some Chavant or Monster clay as it can just be melted and reused. However if by some miracle I accidentally make something that vaguely resembles what I intended It'd be cool if it'll hold up well enough to keep around. Awesome video again btw 👍

[@ArtChongArt]

Thanks At! NSP Medium holds up just fine over time. It will oxidize and the surface will become tougher and less tacky, but it will never truly harden. Even sculptures I made a year ago is still fine as long as they're properly balanced/supported. It's possible that your clay has partially oxidized and hardened into lumps. It's happened to me a few times if I leave unused clay in the open air too long, but it's generally fine if I heat them up again. Hope that helps and happy sculpting!

[@jmaxx6894]

AWESOME WORK!! love seeing it play out from begining to end. Some don't know that a sculpt can be changed multiple times before getting a final product. To me doing faces is the most difficult. I usually use reference art to get armor ideas.

[@ArtChongArt]

Oh man, yeah I feel like you can spend a lifetime just mastering the variety of faces and the expressions we do. Thanks for watching!

[@sebastwin2762]

Hi broooo i love your owrk, i had been studying art for illustration but since i got clay on my hands i had not be able to let it, i have a lot of questions, how can people start on this, and how can make living of sculpting

[@DIY_woodworking_VN]

những tác phẩm đẹp tuyệt ,hay quá

[@Nuk3ed]

Hey art I watch all your videos and I’m a young sculptor myself I not nearly as good as you and I’m having a hard time trying to start with making figures how did you get started was there and classes that helped books or videos I would love to know thank you so much for everything you do ❤

[@gillesvanzeveren4981]

Would've made your base even bigger, but I suppose I wouldve gone with swirls moving away from the impact... Like anime-style... I think it would've made sense from the physics side of things

[@madmakes7993]

The armor was definitely Not Awesome.

[@ArtChongArt]

Haha, yes obviously I agree

[@stareeknight8839]

Personally, I subscribe to the GoW:R version of Thor. Having a strongman build makes sense, considering the time he would have been worshipped. Great feasts of meat and carbs and plenty or mead/ honeybeer)

[@spiritinflux]

“This video is getting too long “ I’m checking the time like ‘it’s not even 30 mins!’ I could watch that process for an hour Amazing work ❤️‍🔥

[@yatima222]

I like the idea, but why go with mythically accurate Raijin and not Thor. They are both mythological gods with record of their appearance. Great work anyhow

[@othik]

Really cool dude! You got talent. If you still have them, you could potentially add more characters. In a lot of mythologies you remember, they all mention a huge clash between the gods. Maybe the different cultures collided at some point, like what you did in this video. I try to imagine god of christianity brawling with Cronos or Hades. Creator vs creator maybe.

[@Victimxofxprogress]

I find everything hard about sculpting. But mostly getting the forms right. All of my anatomy is misshapen and and the forms are sloppy

[@HankScorpio468]

For me, the most difficult part of sculpting is definitely the molding of the clay part...

[@protocole971]

I'm so happy that you exist Art. Love from France

[@AuggieG42]

Thoughts on this one is that you could of had him jumping off a cloud or a bolt of lightning. i feel Raijin isn't finished it's like the creative side of you took a vacation. The swirl of clouds was a bit much and didn't look like clouds, more like a tornado. I still love it but I feel it's not complete.

[@top7records843]

You're really hard on yourself. But as an artist myself I can relate. Other than that, you actually are an amazing sculptor. And I'm not saying that lightly. I do sculpture myself among other things and I know how difficult it can be. I've been searching on youtube again and again for the best scuptors. And you're among them with Dr Garuda or scupture_geek. I like the detail of your sculptures as well as how clean it looks. And your big strengh in my opinion is of course your composition. So to rap this up, I'll be keeping a close eye on you and hope to see more amazing work. Great job, Keep it up.

[@ArtChongArt]

Oh man thank you. Those guys are amazing sculptors, so to be mentioned in the same paragraph is pretty awesome. If you see my sculpts up close I think you might take back the "clean" comment though (please don't pause the video during the final reveal!! 😂😂) Thanks for watching! I'll keep trying my best!

[@KarimBoctorAwad]

Could have made both of them fighting on a mountain top: raijin balancing from a tall pointy bit and thor standing in a small crater created from the impact of the hit to show the strength. Still very very cool work of course

[@o_lirio_comico7555]

this is dope, but thor is canonically ugly as fuck and u made him so pretty, dam u amazing artist...

[@bennyjensen1]

an alternative to this could have been thor getting ready to "catch" raijin's weapon in mid air while holding his hammer across his own body drawing for a backhand slam

[@reallyinfrontofmysalad6976]

I find it most difficult making everything smooth. Like sanding priming sanding again etc.

[@trogdortheburninator4253]

I'm late to the party but this is great. Thor did not wear armor. His beard was so long he tucked it into his belt. Very fun sculpture

[@Vending_machinery]

Beautiful sculpture, but Thor in Norse mythology is actually a fat man.

[@vaarsuvius]

Once again your work is amazing just like your video process! So happy to see the steps and the time it takes you to create such an awesome sculpture! Keep it up please!

[@ArtChongArt]

Thank you! I'll do my best :)

[@ruthiewitter569]

Lips. Lips are so frustrating to draw 😂 I need to study my facial forms more

[@betmen]

2000th like! Great work man, trully spectacular !

[@KingCat-zv1iw]

make thor flashing god n' people. you know what i mean💀💀

[@chadchipman257]

For the moles you are using if you use a small vibrator underneath, it will get all the Bubblez out and allow it to settle in the smaller cracks and details better

[@justindixon5999]

Bro all of that was amazing, please tell me you have some sort of course or patreon that have how to videos? I am trying to learn how to do this.

[@MazingerZX]

Is the base (rock platform) completely solid clay?

[@lyricsassam]

What a piece... masterpiece 🎉

[@imoa1493]

Make Avatar kyoshi please🤗

[@Doctor_Ben]

Beautiful result, I love seeing your fraustration. I can relate to it. Keep up the good work!

[@ArtChongArt]

Thank you! I'll do my best!

[@jericastinson4912]

So I came during your very first upload and man your literally living my dream!! I want to do this SO F*$!#ING BAD! I can feel it down to my core!! Now when I clicked on your picture to take me to your profile and saw that I was watching your very first upload and now to be watching your second was a super humbling experience for me! JUST, because someone as talented as you are I just genuinely expected to already be this famous amazing sculptor with all these fans and all this glory and your simply not that at all (which is not bad AT ALL) because i know your skill alone will grow your page immensely!! But its just reassuring for my own self because ya im a very talented artist I can draw and color anything right out of anyone's imagination and let it flow onto paper like it was suppose to always be there but ive always felt the need to do MORE you know? Take that a step further like off of my paper and this is what ive come to love as of last year. And so far art,( me humbly speaking) you are my absolute favorite person to watch and let be my biggest inspiration to becoming my own sculptor! I can't wait till I can make my own youtubes or whatever in the future and tell the entire world( or whoever cares to listen to my sorry ass lol ) how much you had inspired me to do big amazing things with my creative mind! DONT EVER CHANGE! I love every bit of both of your only videos up so far and I doubt your even going to read this man but its worth a shot? So I ask so so humbly through this outlet and maybe email or something? Would you please please please be a mentor to me and help guide me to making the rite choices to get to where u are creatively? By choices I simply mean as in deciding what materials I am to use etc?....i really hope u read this eventually!! Thanks for your time if you do!! -respectfully- Your future acolyte and student Aka jerica a 25 year old sculptor to be HOPEFULLY 😖😬🤞🏻🤞🏻🤞🏻

[@ArtChongArt]

Hey Jerica, Thank you so much for your very kind words :) I’m so glad to know you enjoyed the videos. I wish you all the success in the world in your own sculpting! I’ve only been sculpting for about a year, so I don’t think I have the kind of experience needed to be a good mentor/advisor. That said, I don’t mind answering a few questions every now and again. You can always hit me up on twitter @artchong or Instagram @Art_Chong, and I’ll be happy to help as time allows. Happy sculpting!

[@psycopirla1]

What do you do with all these sculptures after they're done?

[@cindyveenox]

Veeeery cool, such a dynamic sculpture! I didn't know about Raijin actually, so it was nice to learn a little bit about him. Nice technique with the super sculpey and mold putty, don't think I've seen anyone use those like you did before either. Again, great video! Your musings really tie the whole thing together. What I personally struggle with? Actually getting the work done, I have more than plenty art ideas (not just for sculpting) but they somehow also feel very daunting. Most of the time I know what I want to achieve but then just struggle getting there (or getting started even). It's what has kept me from making things for many years, so now I just try to finish things despite not feeling it and just try to get it 70% there instead of quitting early on out of frustration. And now I have found that afterwards I'm often quite a lot more happy with the result than I ever thought I could be while hitting the struggle wall. :) Now I'll just have to overcome my horrible procrastination tendencies next...

[@ArtChongArt]

Thanks Cindy! I sometimes struggle with getting started, too 😭 It's getting easier as I gain more confidence but some days it feels like a real chore to get rolling but like you, if I grit through it I'm almost always happy with making the effort. Keep up with your work and happy sculpting!

[@kihgvjjtfftfgjiuj4486]

Keep going with this channel u have so much creativity and amazing energy in your videos along with a very talented set of skills I guarantee youll get to where u want to be on here🤩👍

[@ArtChongArt]

Thank you! I'll do my best!

[@Auchaser643]

I think the clouds would have worked if there were less of them but the ones that were there were bulked out some more

[@franchellemarshman4867]

I love how you make a design mistake and then FIX it. The difference between good artists in my opinion, and a great artist is that you keep sculpting until the story in your ❤ heart is visually before you. The best part about your videos for me, is your obvious talent and skill, and you DON'T give up! That is my biggest mistake. I think I am failing. So I give up. You are learning....big difference in perspective. Thank you for the important lession. :D poor u! The base was really frustrating....but you overcame it AGAIN! GREAT job!

[@franchellemarshman4867]

Also I think it it funny they are both gods of thunder when the business end of a storm is lightening.... ;D

[@gast3192]

I absolutely adore watching your videos. You make things look so easy and push yourself into perfection. I always laugh when you say half way into the video "let's actually start sculpting" after having run through enough ideas to make 10 good sculptures and defining them to an extent that others would call finished 😂 What I enjoyed a lot in your new video was the little technical details about the clay, the heating before putting wires in or cooling an area down to lock things in place, the epoxy glue etc. I'd love to see more like this in future videos. Maybe you could slow down on doing a head sculpt so we can get a better idea of how you do it? I noticed that you put little white balls in first for eyes but later they are covered with the clay? And one final question is how you preserve your sculptures? The medium oil based clays seem to have a surface that can easily be ruined by sunlight, dust wiping etc. Do you have some kind of fixative that works for you? Any information about the additional tools and little background helper media would be awesome. Thanks for sharing your art with us. It's super inspiring. 🎨

[@ArtChongArt]

Hey Gast, thanks so much for watching! I’m glad to know the additional technical info is useful to you. It’s a struggle for me to figure out what is too much for the general audience and still be interesting to sculptors. In the next sculpt, I hope to make something a bit simpler and explore the finer details of sculpting rather than staying with just the big picture. I’m still figuring out what works myself so we’re kind of exploring this together, haha. As to the plastic balls, they're just a quick and easy way to do eyes. I get much more control over eyelids with the balls so I like to use them when the scale is very small like this (1:8 or so). They’re also somewhat translucent white so when they get sunken in to green clay they kind of take on the color of the stuff around it, but the balls are exposed in the finished sculpt. About preservation…. I don’t, lol. You’re right that oil based clay never hardens and can oxidize and be hurt by sun light. The shelves they’re on don’t get hit by the sun but otherwise I just let them sit. The only thing that’s happened so far is the surface gets harder and less tacky. One day, if I can ever afford it, I hope to buy a good 3D scanner and printer so I can preserve these digitally. Hope that helps and thanks again!

[@leevespa4564]

You and Dr. Garuda are two of my favourite artists..but personally,I think you have the edge lol. Amazing work sir,I’m just getting into sculpting,I’ve transitioned from drawing and wood carving,my first piece is hellboy,which I’m doing at the moment in das air dry,detail with it is challenging to say the least since I don’t have a kiln,I was thinking of super sculpture but the wife wouldn’t be to happy with stuff in the oven lol,then I’ve spotted chavant nap but it doesn’t set,can you give me some advice if you don’t mind,but absolutely love your art man,thank you,Lee👏👏👏👍

[@ArtChongArt]

Haha, thank you. That's very kind of you to say. I watch Garuda all the time too.:) Super Sculpey doesn't leave bad smells or anything, so I think you'd be fine sticking it in a home oven (Most people do). If you're just starting and looking for general advice... I would say just sculpt whatever you feel like and have fun. That's how you'll stick with a hobby is if you find it fun and rewarding. If you have a specific question, feel free to ask, and I'll be happy to help if I can. Shifflett Brother's sculpting forum (facebook group) is a great resource/community as well.

[@chrisrose323]

Thor was shortnice. But thors hammes has short. Almost no handle at all

[@yenmiezin3349]

Phenomenal skills Art👍👍👏👏😍 Did Playmates Toys ever contacted you to offer you a job as a sculptor??

[@ArtChongArt]

Thank you! No, they haven't (nor has anybody else lol). Honestly I don't think I would make a very good professional. I like to do my own thing too much

[@godpalacesouthborneo8393]

Heyy, I Like your Sculpt and I Love your Arts, make some more epic sculpt will ya?? What About the Paladins On the next project?? Or anything that makes you feel so good in making it, You are Great👍👍

[@ArtChongArt]

Thank you! I’m trying my best!

[@Akatsuki_Play]

I would love a 3D model of this would be so cool to have

[@lillanna615]

Giggles both different guys are yummy too giggles 💖💖💖💖🐿 You're really funny lol interesting

[@ArtChongArt]

Thank you :)

[@margrab1]

it kinda would be better with a clear plastic rod for raijin

[@justanegg8478]

Could also have shaped some cotton onto the mist

[@Mia-in-Japan]

Question about the clay, it's not permanent, so what do you do with these sculpts? Do you make molds out if them and make permanent copy's? Or just leave them as is? What happens in a heat wave? Like there is no way I could use that clay in the country I live in

[@ArtChongArt]

I just leave it as-is. You can mold and cast or 3D scan if you want it preserved. The clay is quite sturdy. It won't deform unless it's warmed up to 130-140F, or about 55c. My studio is around 23-26c

[@Ravelife]

Man I need to ask you: Do you have any advices for a beginner in clay sculpting to learn anatomy ? Cause i tried to watch differents drawings of all the body muscles and stuff but I keep sculpting weird proportions when i begin my sculptures.

[@ArtChongArt]

Hi Alois, thanks for watching first of all. To start, try to ignore details like rippling muscles and veins. Concentrate on having good proportions on simple shapes. Good proportions is about good RATIOs between body parts, and studying these can help a lot. (avg person is ~7.5 heads tall, etc) Another thing that helped me immensely is studying skeletons. Learning where the bony landmarks on the body are can really help you place muscles and keep them from becoming cartoony. Of course, skeletal proportions are also a fantastic way to learn proportions as well. Hope this helps and let me know how you get on!

[@Ravelife]

@@ArtChongArt I'll try to study skeleton a bit more then, thank you man ! Love your videos btw

[@RafaelDiasCorreia]

😍😍😍,what type of tools do you use and where did you got them?

[@yago2935]

Preguntita es la monster clay o la chanant gracias

[@lukaswalker2342]

not the sexy marvel thor proceeds to do the sexy marvel thor

[@Miyako19931]

At the 4 minute mark, watching the drums slowly droop with each frame cut made me nervous! I actually find the armature and building up the anatomy to be the worst part for me.

[@ArtChongArt]

Oh you’re very observant :) yeah that thing was falling down again and again lol Luckily my particular process allows me to get away with pretty simple armatures most of the time, but I totally get you. I overbuild armatures so much whenever I have to :(

[@Techistgaming]

good job pronouncing the hammer correctly