I tried, but man is this hard. Here is what I learned so far:
- Sculpting is hard. Harder than it looks.
- You can cut your nails down to nubs and still somehow end up with nail marks in your sculpt.
- Everything seems to droop down after a while, so it’s necessary to stop and push it back up.
- Smoothing out one side means that I’m going to push in the other side just by holding onto it.
Anyone have any tips to make this a bit easier? I know we have sculptors here. 
I smashed this and will try again tomorrow, but snapped a pic just to track progress.
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That looks like a promising start😉
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It was looking great! Yes it’s hard to sculpt lol. I smooth one side and the other gets smooshed. My nails grow really fast so I have to keep them cut short when I sculpt. Even so I still scratch it with nails!
If the clay is getting too soft pop in in the fridge for awhile.
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Thanks, everyone! I’m going to just keep trying. Apparently nothing is going to come easy for me!
Know what’s funny, @snuggle2me… Bonnie Brown has the longest nails ever! How in the world she manages to churn out masterpiece after masterpiece whiile keeping a nice manicure is beyond me!
So back to the fridge. If I put it in there to harden, it will be more difficult to smoothe, right? Smoothing is such a challenge right now.
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Smoothing will be a little firmer but it helps with squishing other areas.
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Problem #3 sounds like a problem I struggle with on myself! 
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Why’d you smash it? It was cute. 
I read somewhere that Bonnie Brown does her sculpting with a pin. That just blows me away.
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Is that head a solid piece of clay?
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It looks great! I’m sure you can resurrect him from the smash 
I watched a YouTube tutorial where a lady pre-baked sections as she worked on it. So when a portion was definitely finished she’d bake, then add more fresh clay to that and continue sculpting. I haven’t tried it myself but thought it was interesting.
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Oh. My. A video of that would be fascinating- wish she’d put one up, @jeanhai. 
It was not quite a solid ball, there was a ball of tin foil in the middle. I smashed it because there were too many mistakes that I didn’t know how to fix.
Thsnks for the tip, @Rainbowbabies. If I ever get anything good, I might just bake it before I ruin it.
I do not have any tips but you are off to a great start!
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I watched a YouTube tutorial where a lady pre-baked sections as she worked on it. So when a portion was definitely finished she’d bake, then add more fresh clay to that and continue sculpting. I haven’t tried it myself but thought it was interesting.
It was not quite a solid ball, there was a ball of tin foil in the middle. I smashed it because there were too many mistakes that I didn’t know how to fix.