Sculpting Royal Ball Python (Python regius) Polymer Clay Sculpture_Life of Clay

Greetings everyone, welcome back to “Life of Clay”, kenji here your sculptor. This is the send snake sculpture I made in the episodes and I hope you like it. Please enjoy the video and see all the list of materials I used in building down here in the description. And please consider subscribing if you haven’t subscribe yet, and hit that notification bell icon so you will be updated whenever I upload a new video. Here is the direct link to subscribe. / lifeofclay
Facts about:
Royal Ball Python is a python species native in west and central Africa, where it lives in grassland, scrublands and open forest.
It is a nonvenomous constrictor, the smallest of African pythons, growing to a maximum length of 182cm (72 inches). And weigh up to 4 to 5 pounds. In captivity, they can live longer than 20 years.
The name ball python refers to its tendency to coil into a tight ball when stressed or frightened. And this defensive behavior is typically employed in lieu of biting, which made this species easy for humans to handle.
Royal Ball Python’s coloration is black or dark brown with light brown blotches on the back and sides; white or cream belly with scattered black markings.
Both sexes have pelvic spurs on both sides of the vent. During copulation, males tend to have a larger
spurs and use them for gripping females.
Sex is best determined by manual eversion of the male hemipenes or inserting a probe in the cloaca to check the presence of an inverted hemipenes
Mammals burrows in the wild is their favorite hiding places, they also aestivate. Males tend to display more semi arboreal behaviors, whilst females tend towards terrestrial behavior.
Python’s jaws aren’t joined at the front by a rigid symphysis as ours are. Instead their two lower jaws move independently of one another and joined by an elastic ligament that allows them to spread apart, enabling them to swallow a large prey. The quadrate bone is not rigidly attached to their skull, but articulates with the skull at one end and is therefore freely moving.
Pythons Pit organs on its face contain a membrane that can detect infrared radiation from warm bodies up to one meter away.
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These are the Materials I used:
Armature
• 1 mm Stainless steel wire
• 2 parts epoxy
• Aluminium foil
• Cotton twine
Clay
• Super sculpey grey
• Sculpey Liquid Polymer clay
Paints
Underside base color
• Titanium white (Armored komodo)
• Yellow ochre (Monte Marte)
Back base color:
• Coffee bean
• Burnt sienna
• Black
Back blotches wash paint:
• Yellow ochre
• Burnt sienna
• Coffee bean
Side blotches wash paint:
• Coffee bean
Outline of Blotches:
• Black
• Burnt sienna
• Acrylic medium
Eyes:
• Black
Pit organs:
• Titanium white
• Burnt sienna
• Bright red
Sealer:
• 2 parts of Clear Resin (For the eyes)
• Decoart Americana Semi-gloss Varnish
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[@HopeB555]

Not only do you have a great grasp of just the anatomy and how to sculpt a ball python, we get a biology lesson about them too! Fantastic! Brava!

[@LifeofClay]

Welcome to my channel, dear Hope!Thank you so much! Your kind feedback made my day bright. I'm so glad you liked my style of making art and video.🤗🙏💚

[@feegritapan9680]

amazing video with so many tips! thank you very much!!!

[@LifeofClay]

very much welcome, my friend. Glad it was helpful! thank you so much too.

[@mohdaslam3602]

Bro, Proud of you bro 🤧😭❤️ You're such a legend artist 👏👏👏

[@SithMami]

Gorgeous! That handmade scale sculpting tool is ingenious. You could sell them! You could create a whole pack of different animal skins that you made into tools like that one. I know people would buy them.

[@LifeofClay]

Actually, I was planning to produce a set of them in the future and you are so bright you got exactly what I'm up to😊 thank you sooooooo much🤗

[@missdaisy7576]

@@LifeofClaythat would be so amazing if you can do it, it is stunning. Wow

[@missdaisy7576]

I will definitely buy it. Amazing

[@wendym1234]

Wow, an art lesson as well as biology lesson on snakes. Very nice! Good job!

[@LifeofClay]

So much glad to hear that my friend, i truly appreciated it 💚.

[@lancesapatalo638]

Such a incredible sculpture sir, good job!

[@LifeofClay]

Thank you so much Sir, i appreciate that a lot.

[@sepix810]

You did a great job..and ty for participating in my post last week

[@sepix810]

This is cj

[@LifeofClay]

the pleasure is mine my friend, thank you very much for being supportive 😊

[@GalileoRamosSkeletons]

How wonderfuly sculpted is it! The details and texture are really gorgeous. Congratulations!

[@LifeofClay]

Thank you so much! my friend, that means a lot.😊

[@JVCPhotography]

Very cool.

[@LifeofClay]

Thank you so much, my friend.

[@walrusgod9982]

Beautiful work as always Kenji! Keep up the great work

[@LifeofClay]

Thank you very much my friend, that means a lot 😊

[@inchbyinchart152]

I love the educational aspect mixed with art. I always learn more myself when making vids like this. Did you learn anything new about ball pythons?

[@LifeofClay]

Thank you so much my friend, I'm glad you liked it 😊. I'm always open for new studies and information about each species and i really love to learn something new everyday.

[@Wulfgeist]

Love it! such detail!

[@LifeofClay]

Thank you so much! my friend😊

[@MaskOffMills0923]

I just now saw this video and your an awesome artist

[@LifeofClay]

thank you very much, my friend. I'm glad you found my channel and liked it, i truly appreciate it.

[@kishiroelgato9427]

He visto este video por varios meses para estudiarlo todoo jaja, y ahora si voy a animarme hacerlo, yo manejo porcelana fria pero no me gusto el resultado ya que se seca muy rapido. Pienso comprar la arcilla aun que nunca la he usado, tampoco aerógrafo (ni siquiera se que tipo de pintura es la que utiliza) Pero en verdad quiero quiero hacer esta piton !!

[@LifeofClay]

muchas gracias, for sure ou can make it. go for coscaly polymer clay a durable and flexible type of clay. very versatile.

[@BirdaeBlue]

That looks amazing!

[@LifeofClay]

thank you so much, my friend😊

[@BirdaeBlue]

My version didn’t turn out so well but I’ll hopefully get a better result next time

[@LifeofClay]

@@BirdaeBlue that's ok, mind if i see it my friend? Really would like to. Here is my IG account. instagram.com/life.of.clay.kenji

[@mrs_g_needs3698]

Amazing 🤩

[@LifeofClay]

Thank you my friend.

[@geraldo1989]

Anu po sand bedding gamit mo sa pag bake? What type of sand bedding is good for baking polymer clay?

[@LifeofClay]

Fine Arabian desert sand po gamit ko na sand bedding, sobrang pino kasi nya and not sticking to the sculpture. You can find other fine sand po jan sa pinas, just pass them through a sieve/fine strainer pra mas lalong pumino🙂

[@kishiroelgato9427]

¿Cómo se llama la pistola de pintura que usas?

[@LifeofClay]

Solo estoy usando una máquina de aerógrafo tipo caja pequeña, pero ahora ya está rota, así que cambié a una más grande que había comprado recientemente.

[@kishiroelgato9427]

¿Que marca de arcilla usas? ❤

[@LifeofClay]

Sculpey premo, mixing white and black to produce grey color😊 thank you so much.