sculpey: painting and faces

Many people have asked me how I paint my sculpey things. Do you use paint? or different colors of sculpey clay? What do you use to draw the face on?

I generally use different colors of sculpey clay as opposed to painting on the different colors. However, for smaller details, I use paint. For example, in the cow charm that I made (can be seen in this post) I used paint for the pink nose part of the head and the spots. But, I also painted the entire cow white. This is because white clay easily browns when baking... even if it isn't really burned. So it really just depends on the piece. I try to avoid painting an entire charm because I am not very good at painting even coats.
I draw on the faces with a special felt tip pen (usually 0.3 or 0.1 thickness). If there are cheeks, I use a toothpick and dab on pink paint.

I hope you find this useful! :)

Plastic design - elephant WIP

Just a little peek at what I'm working on. :)

About the photo: the first earrings I made. It was an art trade request :)

I hope to be making some plastic products soon :D I have a few designs I would like to try. (Elephants, octopi, kitties.... etc. etc.) I would also like to make a few plushies, but I'm having a difficult time finding the right fabric. So I'm still working on that. Also, I feel motivated to make more Japanese-inspired charms again. So I will hopefully be working on that too :) annnd I have a craftshow coming up this weekend! :) (I really want to have an etsy store too, but the minimum age requirement is 18 D: I'm years away... saad.)

I working on learning this new program I downloaded (Inkscape). I'm new to this vector thing :P

I have a lot to work on! :)