Hello geekhack!!
I finally decided to get my hands dirty with clay and resins, trying to make artisan keycaps myself after much admiration of those beautiful artisan keycaps made by all other artisan keycap makers out in the field.
Personally I do not have sculpting experience, but I do know some painting and drawing, and ceramics/pottery. I think it does help with my sculpting to a certain extend, but as I am working on the keycap sculpture, I realise how tiny it has to be! Not only it has to be aesthetically nice and appealing, but also equally important to fit nicely onto the keyboard and not rubbing neighbouring keys, or appear to be proportionally larger than other keycaps.
happily sculpted an ape. I was glad that it turned out ok as this was my first time, but it was too huge...
Anyway I trimmed the ears off and I am working to sizing down the whole sculpt. In the mean time, I tried casting the first rough version of my sculpt in resins and to see how it turns out.
*was testing how patches of different resin colours will appear with random strokes as I dispense the resin onto the mould...hence the ugly eyebrow...
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Appreciate for any comments and suggestions!
You can check me out at my instagram @wildstory.caps if you wish to follow my journey