How to make your own clay horse model (THE BASICS)

Need ideas to begin sculpting your own unique model of a horse or how to finish it? I’d love to share my favorite process and top 8 tips for sculpting horses in clay with basic materials. This is everything I wish I would have known before I started sculpting horses!
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✨About Me:
I publish videos once a month sharing my adventures in creating horse and animal art in my free time for my own enjoyment, like sculpture, painting, printmaking and more. If you enjoy watching the adventures of an artist making things by hand, sharing tips, and sometimes learning something new, I’d love to show you what I make next!
✨FAQ✨
○ Do you sell your work/take commissions?
Thank you for your interest 🥹💙, but no, sorry, I'm just making projects for my own enjoyment at this time
○ Where can we see more of your art?
Follow me on Instagram!
📚🎓RESOURCES🎓📚
📌Anatomy references
○ Hermann Dittrich illustrations: search.library.wisc.edu/digit...
○ An Atlas of Animal Anatomy for Artists: mitpressbookstore.mit.edu/boo...
○ Gillian Higgins horse anatomy books: www.horsesinsideout.com/shop
○ Gillian Higgins horse anatomy KZbin: / @horsesinsideout
○ Anatomy playlist: • 🔹Equine Anatomy RESOURCES
📌Sculpting info
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📌Mold making basics
• Alumilite Academy: Mol...
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📌Mold making techniques
• Silicone Rubber Moldma...
• Mould making
• How To Make a 2 Piece ...
📌Resin casting techniques
• Urethane Resin Casting
📌Molding & casting horses & animals
• Video
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• How I cast my Resin Mo...
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• From Sketch To Sculpt:...
📌Materials & tools explanations
• Alumilite Explains...
• When to Use a Pressure...
🎨🛠️ TOOLS & SUPPLIES used in this video are listed below!!! These are items I have purchased for my own hobby & any links are purely for your own convenience.
✨ SCULPTING TOOLS & CLAY:
○ Epoxy putties: Milliput, Aves Apoxy, Magic Sculpt, Free Form Sculpt, Greenstuff/Kneaditite
○ Polymer clay: Sculpey Original, Super Sculpey in beige & grey (firm), Fimo, CosClay, Cernit, Kato
○ Plastilina clay: Monster Clay, Alien Clay, Chavant, Sargeant Art, Van Aken
○ Toothpicks
○ Rubber-tipped clay shapers
○ Ribbon tools
○ Embossing tools aka ball stylus
○ Wax carving tools
○ Dental gum stimulator tools
○ Needle-point clay sculpting tool
○ Masking tape
○ Blue shop towels
○ Galvanized steel wire for armature building in assorted gauges (I like 14 & 16 gauge for most scales)
○ Steel ball bearings (for eyes) (my set is 1mm-8mm sizes)
✨SUPPLIES FOR FINISHING SCULPTURES:
○ Duplicolor Sandable Primer
○ Needle files
○ Sandpaper (I like 600-1000 ultrafine grits)
○ 3M Ultra Fine Hand Sanding Pad
○ Flex shaft or rotary drill with your preferred sanding/carving attachments
○ Goggles for protective eye-wear
○ RZ mask for sanding
○ Your preferred paints, if applicable
○ Gloves for painting & priming
○ Painter’s mask for airbrushing & priming
○ Vapor-rated cartridges for painter’s mask
○ Varnish for sealing & protecting painted sculptures
✨ VIDEO CHAPTERS:
00:00 Tips On Where to Begin & How to Finish
00:16 Clay Support: Armatures
01:17 Starting the General Horse Shape
02:02 Clays for Beginners
04:39 Tools & Supplies
05:59 Realism & Detail Sculpting
07:35 Anatomy Resources for Beginners
08:11 Finishing Your Sculpture
09:04 Most Important Tip
MUSIC:
Music from KZbin Audio Library.
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[@kusuri91]

You have such a gentle, soothing voice. I love how you encourage us to try things and learn and embrace the fun side of art. As an adult, I look back on how easy it was to create art as a kid vs now when I pressure myself to create something perfect. You always remind me to embrace my inner child and just sculpt.

[@CreativeKristenTaylor]

Thank youuuu!!😊 And yes, it does seem a lot easier to create as a kid, and I’m finding a playful spirit now is both helpful for creating at all and also for creating more realistic horses, like there’s a good friendship between play and perfection when I make room for both in my own process.

[@BerryArtistic679]

I love sculpting horses!🐎🎠

[@CreativeKristenTaylor]

Me too! 🎉🐴

[@flufflewarrior]

Thank you so much this tutorial! I‘ve been struggling so much with sculpting but always wanted to do it!

[@linn.popcorn8380]

I've been following you for a while and I always get inspired by your video's! Thank you for your kindness and encouragement in every video ❤️

[@CreativeKristenTaylor]

Thank you, and aww yes, I think we were talking about clays on IG some time ago? Always happy to hear from long time fans! Wishing you all the fun with your projects!!

[@linn.popcorn8380]

@@CreativeKristenTaylor we have been talking! I bought the super sculpy, and i'm currently making a medaillion. I find it hard to make the depth but I just need to start. Thank you

[@DeeAnnKjelshusJohnson]

Always love your videos. I value the advice at the end, especially Try, Play, and Grow!

[@CreativeKristenTaylor]

Aww, thank you 😊 And always loved your painting work!

[@DandelionStables..-bx1cq]

I sculpt horses too!🐴🐎🦓

[@CreativeKristenTaylor]

Yay!!!! Happy to hear it 😁

[@Pari28]

YOUR CHANNEL, though ❤! I love how encouraging you are, and how willing you are to give tips and hints. Watched this one before bed, and it relaxed me, and inspired me, lol. Now to sleep, but then to CREATE:

[@CreativeKristenTaylor]

Aww, I’m so glad! 😊😊😊Wishing you all the creative fun!!

[@SnowballSculpts]

This is amazing and absolutely something I would've loved to have when I started! Horses are so fun to sculpt and there don't seem to be a lot of videos covering the process. You are an inspiration and I am hoping to some day have learned enough to also make the videos I wish had been there when I first tried to get into sculpting.

[@CreativeKristenTaylor]

Awww, thank you so much 😊 And yes, there’s so many wonderful horse sculptors out there and I would love to see more people sharing glimpses into their artwork, studio, or just entertaining vids about their art. There’s so much room for people to make their own content of all sorts. And yesssss, give it a try sometime! I think there’s even more room for digital equine artists to share their stories!

[@TheStarWarriorHorse]

Thank you so much for sharing this information and resources! I remember taking the Sculpting 101 workshop by Morgan Kilbourn at BreyerFest ten years ago. I still happen to have the sculpture I was working on back then. Maybe it's time for me to revisit my old project? 😅

[@CreativeKristenTaylor]

Happy to help, and ooooh, yes, that would be a fun project to revisit! Dooooo it!

[@starbatcraft]

Thank you! I definitely want to give it a try! I would love to get into casting but getting a big enough pressure pot and hollow casting seems daunting, but I pretty much only work in 1:9 😅

[@CreativeKristenTaylor]

Yussssss, try it sometime! And aww, yeah, I’m experiencing the same as I sculpt my first 1/9 horse and realizing it might be too big to mold for my pressure pot if I want a couple copies😅 I may have to get creative if I’m going to duplicate that one at all

[@mateuszjedut2406]

So as far as I'm aware you're going to make more animal sculpures other than horses right? Are the extinct ones somwhere in the schedule too? Just asking.

[@CreativeKristenTaylor]

Yup! I have a couple more horse videos in the works and then I’ll be back to other animals, and yes, I have some ideas for extinct animals too 😉

[@mateuszjedut2406]

@@CreativeKristenTaylor nice to hear. Good luck

[@kiaradoesart9682]

2:49 Is that a Mangalarga Marchador WIP I spy?? 👀 ETA: asdfghjkl you cast it! Are you selling copies by any chance? 🙏

[@CreativeKristenTaylor]

Very close!! It’s the Campolina Marchador ❤️ And thank you for your interest, but sorry, I just made a few copies for myself

[@user-kq4nl9qt3n]

I need that Marwari in my collection! 🤩 wish you casted them!. 🩷 thank you for the video