Creating Life-Like Animals in Polymer Clay

I fell in love with the book just flipping through it and wasn't the least bit disappointed when I really started reading it. Every step is explained and clearly shown in the photos. As a beginner, I was so relieved to find a book that gave me such a huge amount of invaluable information. The book goes through the simplest (and cheapest) techniques and tools for sculpting. The projects are adorable and easy to customize so they don't necessarily have to look exactly like what's in the book. I LOVE this book and will use it forever!

I love this book. It is exactly what the title says; an instructional book for sculpting realistic animals. So many of the books for sculptors using polymer clay are incomplete and leave you with a product suitable only for giving to your school-age relatives; this manual is absolutely NOT that. It is text-book quality for an extremely reasonable price. Life-Like Animals takes you from the very beginning - Different types of clays available and their properties, tools that are necessary and those that not essential but make life easier, proper baking methods etc. - through refined sculpting and finishing techniques. I purchased this book at the time time as Creating Lifelike Figures in Polymer Clay: Tools and Techniques for Sculpting Realistic Figures and I assumed the section on clay and tools would be the same, recycled for use in this book. Surprisingly, though the intro to clay section is pretty much the same, there is new material in the tools section, including different methods for doing the some of the same tasks and a couple of tools not covered in her other book.

Detailed instructions that are easy to follow and lead to genuinely amazing results. I have never really done any sculpting but Dewey's book was perfect to get me started, without making me feel like it was made for novices. I think the book would be excellent for newbies as well as those with some experience working with polymer. Definitely five stars!

I love animals and I love miniatures. Thus, when I saw this book I bought it. It is a creative, useful and informative book and I can't wait to begin making some of the ten (10) animals in it: the deer mouse, the young cottontail, the harp seal, the black bear, the basset hound, the white-tailed fawn, the red fox, the bull frog, the bledgling bluebird and the siamese kitten. This is my only qualm. I understand a book is limited, but at just 128 pages, I feel the author could have added more creatures to make in added pages. All are adorable and realistic looking, except for the black bear. In my opinion, the bear looks a little too cute, not realistic at all. The bear looks more as if he belongs at Disney World as a character at the Country Bear Jamboree. The book is in full color with illustrations and step by step instructions. All in all, I feel this was a worthy purchase, though I didn't pay full price from Amazon and instead went with a market place seller. If you love animals, miniatures, or clay making, I recommend this book to purchase for yourself or for someone else.

Katherine Dewey is an amazing artist that is extremely talented; her book makes me want to start straight away, although I have been too busy recently. Katherine's figures may look simple to follow, but this shows years of practise and her love of clay. A must have book, to encourage those who already can, to get back into sculpting and to those who can't, it gives lots of advice, diagrams and pictures. For example to show how to sculpt a dog she uses 10 pages for the Basset Hound and 10 more pages for the Red Fox. She gives money saving tips on making tools that work and how to make a cheap armature that saves on using too much clay and also keeps the work a lot lighter in weight. Thankyou Katherine Dewey you have made a new fan. I will always keep an eye out for any new book you present :)

Just like Katherine Dewey's book on sculpting the human figure, this book is a simple beak-down on creating animals. I figured it would be fantastic, and I was not disappointed. She breaks down the animals in a simple step-by-step instruction with beautiful illustrations and pictures so that anyone can create their own animal. She is a true artist and a true teacher with a unique gift. I highly recommend this book. Buy it, you won't be disappointed. -Annemarie Wright

This book is great for those of us who want to add animals to the sculpting repertoire! Easy to use and understand, provides a great base for beginning to sculpt lifelike animals. This is the second book I have purchased by this author and I am delighted.

to anyone who wishes to learn sculpting with polymer clay or any clay for that matter. Katherine Dewey is an excellent teacher and takes us step by step in creating polymer clay animals. I have finished three animals so far and they turned out surprisingly good. I was never good at sketching or drawing animals and had my doubts about my ability to sculpt them. But I am really pleased with my little animals. I just started at the front of the book and am working my way through. I have done the mouse, the bear and the Siamese cat. Okay, i skipped over to the end of the book for the cat because my daughter wanted me to do that one for her. I love the book

Outstanding introduction to making 3D models in Polymer Clay. Katherine Dewey begins by introducing us to the different types of polymer clay and their properties - saving the beginner a lot of time and money in choosing the right clay. She then explains what tools you will need and how to make them, which keeps start up costs down even more. Dewey also guides you through the scary stuff like how to make armatures and what paints to use. The brilliance of this book lies in the step by step lessons for modelling each project. The images are clear and accompanied by detailed text. She even includes handy diagrams to show how the clay pieces will be pieced together. The projects include; Deer Mouse, Seal, Basset Hound, Fawn, Black Bear, Bull Frog, Bluebird, Siamese Kitten, Fox and Rabbits. Finally she explains how to alter size, position and how to mount them on a polymer clay plinth. In short, achieving professional looking pieces of art are achievable with this fantastic guide. This is a book to treasure for animal modelling enthusiasts.

最近粘土をいじっていて、たまたまこの本を見つけ購入。 この本は、樹脂粘土を使って色々な動物の作り方が載っています。 写真の通り、結構リアルな動物です。 因みに、作り方で紹介されている動物は、 【ネズミ、兎、アザラシ、熊、犬、バンビ、キツネ、カエル、トリ、ネコ】 このような作り方の本って、似たような工程は次から簡略されがちでな気がします。 だが、この本は、全ての動物の工程が丁寧に書かれています。 一動作ずつ、写真が掲載されています。 なので、ある程度人形の作り方を知っていれば、英語が読めなくても把握できます。 英文の説明もそこそこ書かれているので、英語が分かる人には、なお良いかもしれません。 (自分は、英語が苦手なので、読んでいないので内容の良し悪しは何とも言えませんが) 動物の主な形状が描かれてるのはもちろん、どれくらいの塊をどこに肉付けするか、足の関節の付け方など書かれています。 そして、毛並を線で表しているのですが、その図も書かれているので、見れば上手く毛並が描けると思います。 初心者にも、わかりやすいんじゃないかと思われます。 ポーズの変え方、動物を飾る土台についても、少し書かれているのも嬉し点です。 英文が分からなくても、この値段分の価値はありました。満足です。

it's extremely well set up with pictures and how to do it. Love this book

Al igual que el otro libro "Creating lifelike figures..." es un libro inspirador y con detalladas fotografias de cada proceso, da buenas ideas para lograr acabados que no se me habian ocurrido.

Auch wenn das Buch in Enlglisch ist, kann man es verstehen. Die Bilder sind gut "selbsterklärend" . Es ist vom Aufbau bis zum fertigen Tier gut bebildert. Es ist aber nicht umbedingt für Anfänger geeignet.