Gravity Body ~ working on arms

On the right arm, to be precise. As with the torso, I made a core/base out of air-dry clay - in the case of the arms, the clay is molded around a dowel. Then I use Sculpey to build up on top of the clay. The first few layers look like nothing much except lumpy sticks... but the upper arm at least is slowly morphing into something that resembles an arm! Yey! I'll have to fine-tune the anatomy later.

Not sure yet if the shoulder hole/opening is going to stay like this, that's something I'll have to fiddle around with when I have the torso done and see how it works with string.

As mentioned before I like to cure my Sculpey by boiling it in hot water... which, I have found out, is fine for solid Sculpey, but if you have a core made of air-dry clay, there are only so many times you can boil it before that clay melts. XDD The core for the upper arm held up very well until the third boil, then it had a bit of a crisis. But nothing that wasn't fixable - if anything, the clay is now better molded together with the Sculpey. I was able to preserve the hole by re-inserting the dowel.

So I thought hey, maybe I should try baking the pieces instead? And thus I found out that 15 minutes in the toaster oven is TOO LONG. OTL Luckily, the upper arm is only slightly charred. The forearm was just the first layer of the lumpy-stick stage, so no loss there. Still, it's pretty lolzy. ^^;;;