When using clay like that, in ceramics too, you score each side of what you're sticking and then add slip to help join them. Slip is basically a glue made from the clay by taking the clay and watering it down into a paste. It'll help stick it all together and have a less likelihood to break
Plessie Boi I thought that clay looked familiar 😆 I think that means the cracking is as much down to hot hands. I’m so bad at making pinch pots because of overworking the clay with hot hands.
I was just about to say that too. This is definitely the kind of clay pottery and clay art classes in school use. I wonder if this dollar store clay can be fired.
Dragon puns: 1.Why are dragons good at story telling? They have very impressing tails. 2.what did the dragon say when he saw the knight? " look tinned food! " 3.why is it easy to work out the weigh of a dragon? Because they come with scales.
so i work with clay a lot, but i’m a ceramic artist so i don’t work with polymer clay. but from my experience and how you described the clay i wonder if it would survive a kiln firing. this clay seems to be just straight from the ground, and might be a stoneware clay. also you were painting it in the bonedry phase, which is when it is at its most fragile. when clay enters bonedry it’s totally normal for it to shirk some since all the water is leaving the clay body. you were doing great scoring and slipping your work but no matter how much you do it to the wooden base, it’s not going to stay/not crack. wood sucks up moisture from clay pretty quickly and it caused the base to dry unevenly and crack, clay really doesn’t like bonding with anything but itself.
I just recently bought this exact brand of clay, and I was thinking about applying them onto champagne bottles to reshape them and add texture. Would the shape of the clay stay the same if I apply them onto glass?
For everyone who likes to know: you can take a moist towel and drape it around your project, then put it in a plastic bag. This way you can save your work and continue later :) Love to see you work on natural clay Nerdy!
Agreed. In dry - very dry - environment, I'd dampen paper towel and loosely wrap clay, then place wrapped item in a plastic bag kinda' closed, but still open. Check item periodically, and if cracks forming or uneven drying, sprits with water and gently smooth. or prop bag open to speed drying, as needed.
The entire video I was thinking "oh no, she gonna be disappointed when everything is gonna fall apart in the end, because those methods don't work with natural clay" I love working with natural clay, but the methods are just really different from the clay you're used to.
As some of the other comments say, you need to score and slip when attaching two pieces. Basically scratch both sides of the clay your attaching and add a little water in between them
You know when you do something wrong, and your teacher says: “I’m not mad at you, I’m just disappointed.” That was Jackie when the piece broke 😂 Edit: oh my gosh thank u for the likes!
She’s actually one of my favorites I’ve seen yet because of the absolutely beautiful painting. The colors are so vibrant and I love the contrast of the black on red. I think she’s amazing.
When you scored it, did you make sure to score both pieces? You're supposed to, and scoring is supposed to look more like your grass texture with random lines. You're also supposed to add a little water from the tip of your finger on both scored sides, and once you put the pieces together you still have to blend them together. I hope this helps you (whomever reads this) understand this style of a clay a bit better.
This is because this type of clay is not the best for details. It is bad for making small pieces since they crack and dry quickly but it is perfect for projects with a big size. It is also good for textures. It works best as a single big piece
I'm pretty sure this material is like ceramic clay, you need to slip and score EVERY single thing that is added on, I used to take ceramic classes in highschool, and this was a very common issue with projects that weren't slipped and scored and were instead scored and applied with water, hope anyone using this material in the future can learn from this
Also, when dry it's super delicate because it's still weak until it's fired. I lost many pieces in college because of others breaking my greenware to make shelf space. SUPER SALTY. :/
My heart felt like it literally skipped a beat when she fell apart 😲 Horray for hot glue guns and your amazing patience! 😊🙌 She turned out so adorable! 😍
@NerdECrafter a simple trick that I use when I make stuff out of a clay that is similar to this (ceramic clay) is I rub water into my hand periodically to keep them moist and hydrated so my hands don't absorb the water from the clay as quickly. Also it's a good idea to keep a spray bottle on hand if you want to work on another part of the same project. If the clay peices come a part after it dries, add just a little bit of vinegar to both pieces and let them bubble up a bit, then press the two pieces together firmly. PS. I really love your videos!
I think you should name her Pele. Pele is the name of a famous Hawaiian volcano goddess who is known for being both a beautiful creation goddess and a destructive force of nature. I think Pele is a good name for her because your sculpture is both an adorable creation and was an absolute nightmare to work with :)
Ceramics and sculpting was my favorite activity to do in my art classes in high school. Something to help your individual added on details (the under belly, the legs, the head, etc) is by making a slip solution. You literally just mash up clay with a bunch of water, and as you score the clay, apply the solution before sticking the on details. Another thing to avoid your clay from breaking while it’s being fired in a kiln, or an oven, is to make the fugue hollow. But you have to make a puncture site so the hot air inside the hollow clay piece can escape without exploding the figure. Edit: I’ve also used that brand of clay before and I can confirm it’s terrible and not worth wasting time and energy on. I tried absolutely everything to prevent it from cracking and falling apart. It’s just a bad clay in all honestly. You’re better off spending a lot more money on high quality clay than the cheaper alternative.
You had the same advice I did! Have you used DAS clay? I always wanted to try it but it was really expensive so my parents wouldn't get it for me to try. I recently found some DAS kids' clay, and I grabbed some white and some green. Haven't used the green yet, but my 4yo used the white to make "fossils" by pressing toy dinosaurs into lumps of it. It hardened really nicely.
Yes, I agree with all of these points/tips! I've studies ceramics and sculpting with clay for 2 years now and I can say that these tips right here usually do the trick, expessially with using the slip solution to stick on details.
3:30 **Jackie: smelling clay saying “mmmnn back yard” me: **goes in garden, looks underneath stones with tarp under...**”I have clay in my back yard...!
Jackie, this is pottery clay. Meaning it goes into many stages: plastic, leather hard, bone dry, bisque ware, and glaze ware. Your piece was at bone dry which is very brittle and prone to braking. It has to go in a kiln and get fired for it to be strong-and it shrinks as you saw, because water.
Lol I use to use this clay for high school projects alot. I learned all the stuff that you did plus the $1rama brush that youu got were for watercolour paints. Red is watercolour. Black is for acrylic. And when it came to painting I hate that I soak up the paint so I just used a transparent Gesso. The Gesso gave it a thin coats like a skin, so it was less likely to break, what it did decide to break, E3600 was my friend at the time. You could use super glue but I find that stuff s pain.
I'm wondering if you just encountered a really bad batch. I bought some of this a few months ago despite having never sculpted because hey, what the heck. I was super impressed with it. I sculpted a jackalope out of it and was really impressed with how it held its shape and texture. Its dry now and I only had one issue with cracking, and it was in a particularly thin and oddly shaped area of one of the antlers.
Yoooo Jackie, this "air dry clay" seems to be acting a lot more like standard mixed pottery clay. The soft but firm out of the package is akin to a stage of clay called Plastic. This is the darkest in color most moldable and fixable of the stages. The white on your hands is par of the course as your hands will suck out any moisture that the clay has while working with it. It's best to have a spray bottle on stand by to keep all parts of your piece evenly moist. Even the base. Another thing abt pottery clay is that it won't just stick to each other like polymer clays. It needs to be scored and smoothed to the base then re-carved out from there. While yeah you'll lose some of your sick grass texture, this is how this type of clay works. You can be cheeky and have toothpick stand inserts but both pieces of the project have to be Plastic for them to dry properly. The complete crumble at the end is due to the moisture levels being different at the end. Its a terrible way to lose your time but it was a sick sculpt while it lasted my guy. Heres to the next one built upon your learnings from this :D!
That’s what I was thinking because I took ceramics in high school last year and I was thinking that the clay looks just like the stuff we used in there
lillystl3 Yeah same, it's weirdly similar. I actually did make a dragon in Ceramics class, although he also broke a good amount, and I really did notice the differences in how working with it felt, especially with how much I needed to score the clay for it to stick. It definitely helped to keep my hands damp but not to over water the clay, which I think is why you got the soap texture. Also namewise, (I'm sorry for odd spelling) maybe something like Anyshia, Anagma, or Maya? Idk I'm just throwing random stuff out XD
Yes! I recognized the texture from my high school ceramics courses but I was looking for somebody who knows more about it than I do. I just remember that it's pretty tricky to work with if you don't know what you're doing.
I thought the exact same thing. I took a ceramics class in college and that "air dry clay" not only looks like normal white clay but it acts the same way as well.
I actually have a bunch of similar clay, and between watching this and reading the comments I am now less nervous about messing around with it. Thank you!
I was like ANGRY when I saw the base started crumbling, like "HOW DARE YOU, CLAAAAY!" but then when the dragon broke I wanted to cry! I think your sculpture is definitely cute! You are very talented!
I always work a bit of lotion or hand cream into air dry clay when I work with it. Usually I'll coat my hands well and then knead the clay and reapply the lotion thickly to my palms once worked into the clay. For every egg or golfball worth of clay, maybe a quarter of a teaspoon of lotion. May not work for everyone, but it seems to extend drying time nicely, makes the clay more supple and workable, less cracks once dry, and I'm able to get more fine details into the piece.
Aww she is so adorable. My heart did sink when she fell off the board, but she turned out very cute. I think either Speckles because of her markings, or Maggie because she is a lava dragon.
Jackie you can make something called airdry slip to fill in any cracks :) You put small amounts of clay and mix it with water till you get a clay paste and fill in the cracks and crevices. Iam going to be making a big dragon using air dry clay and cant thank you enough for the inspiration :D
I love your little Wabi-sabi! My grandmother taught me to love the creative opportunities presented by life’s imperfections, one of them being poverty. Creating stuff and enjoying life are skills not easily taught together, well done.
This looks and acts just like the clay we used in pottery class in high school. You had to air dry it first and it turned much lighter but it also became extremely brittle. After it was completely dried out you then put it in a kiln and it made the clay much stronger. I think the packaging mislead you greatly by telling you that you only needed to let it air dry.
Yea it definately works a lot like the clay I used in pottery class too (except ours was this weird orange color) I don't know how Jackie kept her cool, I would've literally cried
She's really cute!! I love her. I'd name her Ember But I bet with polymer clay and your usually tools it would have been fantastic! Soft brushes like that are pretty good for light dry brushing for me.
Here’s some helpful hinds I wish I had when working with air dry clay. If you want to take your time use a damp paper towel to wrap your project in. Keeps the clay nice and damp. And I like having either a wet towel or more wet paper towels for my hands. To help with the cracking. And not allowing my hands to get white and dry. For the sake of what Jackie knows and for her talent I believe she did well. Way way better then me. I don’t do dragons. But I love to watch your crafting videos. They’ve helped me so much in the last year and half. Jackie what’s your favorite colors? What are Sikas favorite colors?
The kilns that you bake this type of clay are electrically powered. Baking the clay with direct fire is called Raku, which is a whole other discipline in ceramics.
I loved this little.dragon She is beautiful. May I make a suggestion? Next time you work with air dry clay. Let it set slowly in a cool place with a wet towel or.even paper towel in a cool place. And.as soon as its dry put a coat of mod podge on it. That has worked.for me. I love your work and the salty way you present it.
My son and I watched this. He’s 1 and was so so fascinated he cried when the ads popped up! Thank you for all your amazing videos 💕💕 they keep us going!
I gasped when the poor dragon fell off and everything started to crack! :( When I was watching the painting be done, I wasn't sure how it was going to come out. Then it actually came out very cute!
Tip: scoring is a good tactic but also use it for all attachments like the feathery thingys with slip it’s a extremely watery and liquidity clay and water mixture that will help it stick
Morgan Wilkinson Take a pinch of the clay, put it in a tiny sealable container, and add water, mixing it until it’s roughly the consistency of fresh frosting.
Melody Mayer Aww keep working at it! Trust me, when I started I was absolute trash, and a couple years later I'm selling at shows. Just do some research and mess around! You'd be surprised how far you can get :)
Roll your pieces about 1/4 inches thick, definitely use a foil filler on thicker pieces it will all dry at a more even pace. Make slip to glue the pieces together. Dried clay mixed with water and a little white glue. I think it looks great. The head has a turtle look and is unique. You did a great job
Something my mom and I used to do when using cheap air dry clay was mixing Elmer's glue into the clay alongside small amounts of water to keep it flexible and prevent cracking. I remember it worked pretty lovely.
Okay, I have some experience with natural clay so I'll give my tips. As many have said, slipping and scoring is a big need! Especially if you do not smooth out the pieces to make one solid form (I've cheated when smoothing pieces together because usually the smoothed part can hold it). But, with the style, slipping and scoring is a must. For scoring, we'd usually use a serrated scraper tool or a fork to lightly brush lines into the clay. Not too deep, but enough to hold slip. Slip is just a mash of water and clay that can be applied via hand or with a brush. Now I've never really seen natural clay that didn't have to be put in a kiln. Of course, different brands have different makeups, so I'm likely wrong. That being said I don't understand how they can say it wouldn't shrink. Shrinking is a big issue! And I've never found a type of natural clay that doesn't shrink. Even my own animal models have areas where the shrinking is obvious. For example, my dog-like model had a normal snout when he went into the kiln, but it bottlenecked when it came out. I think this is due to the clay have such a high amount of water in it, that when the water is taken out it just compresses. Now I am surprised the dragon didn't just break because of the tinfoil, because I had been warned that natural clay would just break around anything inside of it. Seems not to be the case here!
I dont want to be mean, but: "Jackie you did it wrong!" Natural clay is really special, and you must have some experience with it, it is sooo much different than polymer clay, natural clay can be fired which makes your piece much stronger, every piece of the sculpture has to blended together together, that is why the legs and other parts of your dragon fell off. But if you know how to work with it, natural clay can be an amazing material to work with. But it was your first time working with it, you did great, i didn't know these things when i first started working with natural clay. Pls just like so Jackie can see!!!👍👍👍
I do loads of sculptures in air dry clay I recommend the clay from hobby craft it feels super nice to work with and really cheap and easy witch clay do you work with and where do you get it From? (>~●) I'm using it right now
For my pottery class in school we used similar clay to what you did, I thing the dragon feel to pieces because you didn't use score marks when attaching the limbs and horns
I'm wincing in anticipation, having spent many hours working with natural clay I can see where this is going to go wrong. Polymer clay is such a different beast to clay that needs to be fired in a kiln!
when i used to sculpt with clay in school the teacher had us mix some clay with water to make a kind of liquid sculpey looking paste and use it as glue, not saying it would have saved your project, but maybe it could have helped
When using clay like that, in ceramics too, you score each side of what you're sticking and then add slip to help join them. Slip is basically a glue made from the clay by taking the clay and watering it down into a paste. It'll help stick it all together and have a less likelihood to break
Oh, thank you, now i know how this called in English. In russian it sounds much more complicated than "slip"
Plessie Boi I thought that clay looked familiar 😆 I think that means the cracking is as much down to hot hands. I’m so bad at making pinch pots because of overworking the clay with hot hands.
Was literally bout to comment this as well cause i worked with this clay in school during art gcse 😂
I was just about to say that too. This is definitely the kind of clay pottery and clay art classes in school use. I wonder if this dollar store clay can be fired.
I mix 'LiquidNails' glue, water and clay it works wonders
Hey Jackie, you should recreate her some time with materials you'd usually use as a comparison!
YEEESSSSSSSS!!!!!!
I was going to suggest this!!
Yes, I'd love to see that.
It would look super good
Yes that would be the best
Dragon puns:
1.Why are dragons good at story telling?
They have very impressing tails.
2.what did the dragon say when he saw the knight? " look tinned food! "
3.why is it easy to work out the weigh of a dragon? Because they come with scales.
Very punny mate
Heh that isss funny I like the third one the best >:3
Not puns
Jokes
😂😂 The one about the Knight is my favourite.
so i work with clay a lot, but i’m a ceramic artist so i don’t work with polymer clay. but from my experience and how you described the clay i wonder if it would survive a kiln firing. this clay seems to be just straight from the ground, and might be a stoneware clay.
also you were painting it in the bonedry phase, which is when it is at its most fragile. when clay enters bonedry it’s totally normal for it to shirk some since all the water is leaving the clay body.
you were doing great scoring and slipping your work but no matter how much you do it to the wooden base, it’s not going to stay/not crack. wood sucks up moisture from clay pretty quickly and it caused the base to dry unevenly and crack, clay really doesn’t like bonding with anything but itself.
Oof I added wooden boards to my Christmas list
@@puppeteerpuppet528 polymer clay does aye ok with wooden boards!
@@Dimpy2003AJ oh okay! Thanks for telling me that!
@@puppeteerpuppet528 no problem! always love to help when i can.
I just recently bought this exact brand of clay, and I was thinking about applying them onto champagne bottles to reshape them and add texture. Would the shape of the clay stay the same if I apply them onto glass?
For everyone who likes to know: you can take a moist towel and drape it around your project, then put it in a plastic bag. This way you can save your work and continue later :)
Love to see you work on natural clay Nerdy!
Agreed. In dry - very dry - environment, I'd dampen paper towel and loosely wrap clay, then place wrapped item in a plastic bag kinda' closed, but still open. Check item periodically, and if cracks forming or uneven drying, sprits with water and gently smooth. or prop bag open to speed drying, as needed.
Name suggestion “Crackle”- because she’s fiery and falls apart
I second, third, fourth, and fifth this suggestion. I think it's perfect!
Omg Crackle better than my ideas :O
I think Crackle will win lmfaooo
YEEEEESSSSSSSSSSSSSS
jamescastle1231 10/10
The entire video I was thinking "oh no, she gonna be disappointed when everything is gonna fall apart in the end, because those methods don't work with natural clay"
I love working with natural clay, but the methods are just really different from the clay you're used to.
Exactly
any tips for working with natural clay? I could really use some xD
As some of the other comments say, you need to score and slip when attaching two pieces. Basically scratch both sides of the clay your attaching and add a little water in between them
Same same...-_-
❤️
I love how both Moriah and Jackie say “Nooks and crannies”
Yaa
My animal crossing mental state is coming in.
They are friends
Me too
it’s a pretty common expression
I would love to see a take 2 with actually polymer clay for this dragon. I would love to see you do it to the beast of your ability
or she could be called "Enya" which means "Little Fire" in celtic
i like thatt!!
That sounds good
no sorry i bont like name sorry unu
Yas girl 🙌
That's so great!!!!!!
You know when you do something wrong, and your teacher says: “I’m not mad at you, I’m just disappointed.”
That was Jackie when the piece broke 😂
Edit: oh my gosh thank u for the likes!
Jellybird the disappointment part is always way worse lol
So true though
Never happend to me
My parents be like that, it was so much whlorse then any teacher ever could make me feel
lol 😂
She’s actually one of my favorites I’ve seen yet because of the absolutely beautiful painting. The colors are so vibrant and I love the contrast of the black on red. I think she’s amazing.
When you scored it, did you make sure to score both pieces? You're supposed to, and scoring is supposed to look more like your grass texture with random lines. You're also supposed to add a little water from the tip of your finger on both scored sides, and once you put the pieces together you still have to blend them together.
I hope this helps you (whomever reads this) understand this style of a clay a bit better.
Guardian Dragon sadly I didn’t see her score and slip. Slip is like the glue that holds two pieces of clay together. I didn’t see her do that
@@BirbDaddyGram she did, she used water for the score and that should work for "air dry clay"
This is because this type of clay is not the best for details. It is bad for making small pieces since they crack and dry quickly but it is perfect for projects with a big size. It is also good for textures. It works best as a single big piece
@@BirbDaddyGram This is what I thought
I agree and your also supposed to make a slip ( water+clay mixed) to glue the peices together
I'm pretty sure this material is like ceramic clay, you need to slip and score EVERY single thing that is added on, I used to take ceramic classes in highschool, and this was a very common issue with projects that weren't slipped and scored and were instead scored and applied with water, hope anyone using this material in the future can learn from this
Also, when dry it's super delicate because it's still weak until it's fired. I lost many pieces in college because of others breaking my greenware to make shelf space. SUPER SALTY. :/
The dragon looks like glowing ember. She is so pretty, so maybe just Ember since that alone is a pretty name
It would be a nice tribute too, since Dragons and Beasties kids name is Ember :)
Brilliant 😍
Her name should be Miho, which is a Japanese girl name meaning beautiful fire.
Omg i love that name
I agree
That is the best name ever
Y E S its such a pretty namee
Omg yaaaaaaa
Adorable dragon: * falls apart like crazy
Jackie: * slowly dies inside
Lol
tots
My heart felt like it literally skipped a beat when she fell apart 😲 Horray for hot glue guns and your amazing patience! 😊🙌 She turned out so adorable! 😍
I had a mini heart attack when everything fell off the wooden board.
Same! 😅
English #01!
Qwerty Cupcake he messed up 1 word, get over it.
@@doomiedud747 I was only saying that because it would be funny
Lollipop GLMV I see you didn’t get the joke.
@NerdECrafter a simple trick that I use when I make stuff out of a clay that is similar to this (ceramic clay) is I rub water into my hand periodically to keep them moist and hydrated so my hands don't absorb the water from the clay as quickly. Also it's a good idea to keep a spray bottle on hand if you want to work on another part of the same project. If the clay peices come a part after it dries, add just a little bit of vinegar to both pieces and let them bubble up a bit, then press the two pieces together firmly.
PS. I really love your videos!
That moment when you start watching and Jackie starts throwing the clay in the trash! You Know its going to be fun!
watching*
@@brookenolan769 srry I'm not from America or the U.K. that's why. But thx for the reaction.
Sometimes I wonder what "the trash" thinks about constantly getting bad craft supplies thrown at.
@@drawnintoromance probably "soooo JACKIE im trash" says the salty trash
@@drawnintoromance hahah wow lol so true
I think you should name her Pele. Pele is the name of a famous Hawaiian volcano goddess who is known for being both a beautiful creation goddess and a destructive force of nature. I think Pele is a good name for her because your sculpture is both an adorable creation and was an absolute nightmare to work with :)
Um pele is allso a soccer player
Jackie: Our first challenge-
Me: not getting kicked out for filming
Boy name zanic girl name molon
Lol yes that’s like every store
Jackie: *buys that clay that I used in my early days*
Me: *inhales* you can literally say you put your blood sweat and tears in this sculpcher >:)
lava
"Gent-el.... Gent-el..... Yiss!"
I died lmao 😂😂
"Very nice." 😂
Ceramics and sculpting was my favorite activity to do in my art classes in high school. Something to help your individual added on details (the under belly, the legs, the head, etc) is by making a slip solution. You literally just mash up clay with a bunch of water, and as you score the clay, apply the solution before sticking the on details. Another thing to avoid your clay from breaking while it’s being fired in a kiln, or an oven, is to make the fugue hollow. But you have to make a puncture site so the hot air inside the hollow clay piece can escape without exploding the figure.
Edit: I’ve also used that brand of clay before and I can confirm it’s terrible and not worth wasting time and energy on. I tried absolutely everything to prevent it from cracking and falling apart. It’s just a bad clay in all honestly. You’re better off spending a lot more money on high quality clay than the cheaper alternative.
You had the same advice I did!
Have you used DAS clay? I always wanted to try it but it was really expensive so my parents wouldn't get it for me to try. I recently found some DAS kids' clay, and I grabbed some white and some green. Haven't used the green yet, but my 4yo used the white to make "fossils" by pressing toy dinosaurs into lumps of it. It hardened really nicely.
Yes, I agree with all of these points/tips!
I've studies ceramics and sculpting with clay for 2 years now and I can say that these tips right here usually do the trick, expessially with using the slip solution to stick on details.
MY heart dropped into my stomach when the dragon fell apart! I thought, “Nooooooooooooooo, Jackie’s hard work. 😫😫.”
I just wanted to thank you for making me smile. I’ve been really down lately and watching your vids has made me a little happier ❤️🇦🇺
3:30 **Jackie: smelling clay saying “mmmnn back yard” me: **goes in garden, looks underneath stones with tarp under...**”I have clay in my back yard...!
Jackie, this is pottery clay. Meaning it goes into many stages: plastic, leather hard, bone dry, bisque ware, and glaze ware. Your piece was at bone dry which is very brittle and prone to braking. It has to go in a kiln and get fired for it to be strong-and it shrinks as you saw, because water.
This this this!!!!
But they market it as air drying clay!
I feel like water is bad but then it's good
Lol I use to use this clay for high school projects alot. I learned all the stuff that you did plus the $1rama brush that youu got were for watercolour paints. Red is watercolour. Black is for acrylic. And when it came to painting I hate that I soak up the paint so I just used a transparent Gesso. The Gesso gave it a thin coats like a skin, so it was less likely to break, what it did decide to break, E3600 was my friend at the time. You could use super glue but I find that stuff s pain.
I'm wondering if you just encountered a really bad batch. I bought some of this a few months ago despite having never sculpted because hey, what the heck. I was super impressed with it. I sculpted a jackalope out of it and was really impressed with how it held its shape and texture. Its dry now and I only had one issue with cracking, and it was in a particularly thin and oddly shaped area of one of the antlers.
I felt that pain of the dragon breaking, like I yelled "Nooooo" once it happened.
No one
litteraly nobody
dragon : Aight imma head out
Yoooo Jackie, this "air dry clay" seems to be acting a lot more like standard mixed pottery clay. The soft but firm out of the package is akin to a stage of clay called Plastic. This is the darkest in color most moldable and fixable of the stages. The white on your hands is par of the course as your hands will suck out any moisture that the clay has while working with it. It's best to have a spray bottle on stand by to keep all parts of your piece evenly moist. Even the base. Another thing abt pottery clay is that it won't just stick to each other like polymer clays. It needs to be scored and smoothed to the base then re-carved out from there. While yeah you'll lose some of your sick grass texture, this is how this type of clay works. You can be cheeky and have toothpick stand inserts but both pieces of the project have to be Plastic for them to dry properly. The complete crumble at the end is due to the moisture levels being different at the end. Its a terrible way to lose your time but it was a sick sculpt while it lasted my guy. Heres to the next one built upon your learnings from this :D!
That’s what I was thinking because I took ceramics in high school last year and I was thinking that the clay looks just like the stuff we used in there
lillystl3 Yeah same, it's weirdly similar. I actually did make a dragon in Ceramics class, although he also broke a good amount, and I really did notice the differences in how working with it felt, especially with how much I needed to score the clay for it to stick. It definitely helped to keep my hands damp but not to over water the clay, which I think is why you got the soap texture. Also namewise, (I'm sorry for odd spelling) maybe something like Anyshia, Anagma, or Maya? Idk I'm just throwing random stuff out XD
Yes! I recognized the texture from my high school ceramics courses but I was looking for somebody who knows more about it than I do. I just remember that it's pretty tricky to work with if you don't know what you're doing.
BEK d that’s what’s I was thinking, it looks really similar to what I would use in art class to make pottery
I thought the exact same thing. I took a ceramics class in college and that "air dry clay" not only looks like normal white clay but it acts the same way as well.
I actually have a bunch of similar clay, and between watching this and reading the comments I am now less nervous about messing around with it. Thank you!
I was like ANGRY when I saw the base started crumbling, like "HOW DARE YOU, CLAAAAY!" but then when the dragon broke I wanted to cry! I think your sculpture is definitely cute! You are very talented!
Why tho
Nerdy: "Lets be friends today."
Also Nerdy: *continues to smash with other objects*
So much of Nerdy: HmMm.."
Lol I think it should be called "maki maki"
@XXX XXX says the person who doesn't know what a name is
@XXX XXX well then if you want me to respect your name, why not dont pettyly correct other people's innocent mistakes🙄
I make tons of mistakes- no need to fight- no one is perfect with anything. HHh
@@catzie_78 xD
Me: I love her, she is gorgeous!
Everybody: Nerdy Crafter or the dragon?
Me: Yes.
I love her~
(Nerdy or the dragon?)
...yes
LOL
Lol
same here they are both very pretty.
Me tooฅ^•ﻌ•^ฅ
I always work a bit of lotion or hand cream into air dry clay when I work with it. Usually I'll coat my hands well and then knead the clay and reapply the lotion thickly to my palms once worked into the clay. For every egg or golfball worth of clay, maybe a quarter of a teaspoon of lotion. May not work for everyone, but it seems to extend drying time nicely, makes the clay more supple and workable, less cracks once dry, and I'm able to get more fine details into the piece.
RIP Dragon
2019-2019
"Going out in six inch heels, while running with a wedge!"- Jackie
Omg, yes!!
I totally agreee
Jakie: its gluten free
Me: wait a minute, clay has gluten? Can i eat it?
I'll check uwu
Haha, actually, there is medicine with clay in it
Technically yes if it's natural clay but it'll just taste like dirt
KatieKoo- KooHead I can't find clay rip
Francesca Hernández NO
Everything that’s perfect has its flaws that makes it different. The flaws is what makes it beautiful
This is how many people love Jackie's memes and ofcourse, Jackie herself
👇🏻
BEGGARS HERE
Aww she is so adorable. My heart did sink when she fell off the board, but she turned out very cute. I think either Speckles because of her markings, or Maggie because she is a lava dragon.
Problem: Jackie is angry
Solution: give her a hot glue gun
That will definitely work out well.
Edit: WOW! Over 200 likes! Thank u!
lol, this made my day.
-Jackie 2019
lol
😂😂😂funny
Warning! Don't give Jackie hot glue guns...
ONLY SHARP POINTY THINGSSSSS
Jackie you can make something called airdry slip to fill in any cracks :) You put small amounts of clay and mix it with water till you get a clay paste and fill in the cracks and crevices.
Iam going to be making a big dragon using air dry clay and cant thank you enough for the inspiration :D
You should name her “Crackle” or “Challenge” (I like Crackle the most tbh)
We have the same idea
I came up with a similar name ..... Fire CRACKle
That is a vary good idea!!!!😮
Crackle good name
I like Crackle...
"...was like going out jogging in 6 inch heels while running with a wedgie." made me laugh so hard 😂😂😂
Wait were did she say that
@@PixieStyxies At about 19:40
Name her Fire Cracker, she went “boom”. I laughed so many times through this video! 😂🤣 Love your attitude!!!
That’s a good name and I died to lol😂
I agree but maybe I kind of like mine better I like yours though too it's cute
I love your little Wabi-sabi! My grandmother taught me to love the creative opportunities presented by life’s imperfections, one of them being poverty. Creating stuff and enjoying life are skills not easily taught together, well done.
"Going out for a jog in 6 inch high heels while running with a wedgie." 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
This looks and acts just like the clay we used in pottery class in high school. You had to air dry it first and it turned much lighter but it also became extremely brittle. After it was completely dried out you then put it in a kiln and it made the clay much stronger. I think the packaging mislead you greatly by telling you that you only needed to let it air dry.
Shawna O It Clickbaited Jackie and a bunch of other ppl gasp
I agree
Yea it definately works a lot like the clay I used in pottery class too (except ours was this weird orange color) I don't know how Jackie kept her cool, I would've literally cried
A wonderful helpful grain c:
SALTY!
*liked*
Her name could be “crackle”
@Aleena Khan sorry but "Crackle" is cooler
Yeah I love crackle as a name you go girl I'm subbing 😆
Make a Leo picture of the zodiac sign I'm a Leo 😁
Aleena Khan no
Yes best name
A small spray bottle filled with water is handy for keeping the clay damp.
Just came across your channel recently and I’m loving it.
Jackie placing the dragon on her stand: "Gentle, gentle....." last second plop! 😜
She's really cute!! I love her. I'd name her Ember
But I bet with polymer clay and your usually tools it would have been fantastic!
Soft brushes like that are pretty good for light dry brushing for me.
Jackie: it's ok.
Me: it's way better than anything I've sculpted in my life.
fuunosenshi same
My first sculpture was a class project and it blew up in the kiln.
Mhm
Most relatable comment ever.
Here’s some helpful hinds I wish I had when working with air dry clay. If you want to take your time use a damp paper towel to wrap your project in. Keeps the clay nice and damp. And I like having either a wet towel or more wet paper towels for my hands. To help with the cracking. And not allowing my hands to get white and dry.
For the sake of what Jackie knows and for her talent I believe she did well. Way way better then me. I don’t do dragons. But I love to watch your crafting videos. They’ve helped me so much in the last year and half.
Jackie what’s your favorite colors? What are Sikas favorite colors?
jackie this clay is actually the one used for pottery and it needs to be baked but not in electric ovens but fire ones😉
The kilns that you bake this type of clay are electrically powered. Baking the clay with direct fire is called Raku, which is a whole other discipline in ceramics.
@@MsCherade9 thanks for the information. I totally appreciate it.
"pray to the drying gods" *laughs in air-dry clay user*
Are you kidding.... those original sculptures were epically amazing!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!💖💖💖
I loved this little.dragon
She is beautiful.
May I make a suggestion? Next time you work with air dry clay. Let it set slowly in a cool place with a wet towel or.even paper towel in a cool place. And.as soon as its dry put a coat of mod podge on it. That has worked.for me. I love your work and the salty way you present it.
"my surface is wet" - Jackie, 2019
💀💀💀
Kinky
My son and I watched this. He’s 1 and was so so fascinated he cried when the ads popped up! Thank you for all your amazing videos 💕💕 they keep us going!
I think we can all agree that Jackie's videos have brought us all salt in sugar in our lives we love you Jackie keep up the good work!
Aww that's so sweet
When the top oh here like head
thingy came off I was like
“ Oml not her weave “
wut
why
when
how
who
:'0
Lol
Haha that's so funny
techni eclipz hmm…
*Weave Snatched*
When she fell and broke it reminded me of my life 🤣... always falling apart.
I gasped when the poor dragon fell off and everything started to crack! :(
When I was watching the painting be done, I wasn't sure how it was going to come out. Then it actually came out very cute!
Tip: scoring is a good tactic but also use it for all attachments like the feathery thingys with slip it’s a extremely watery and liquidity clay and water mixture that will help it stick
My ceramics teacher taught us about slip and scoreing 😀
When you're working with clay, you're going to have to make a slurry to use as glue. clay isn't going to stick together well just from water.
Morgan Wilkinson Take a pinch of the clay, put it in a tiny sealable container, and add water, mixing it until it’s roughly the consistency of fresh frosting.
Thank you! I work with different air dry clay, and this will really help !
I love how even though the literal whole entire thing crumbled she still ended up with some thing that looks so so so so good
So
Ia e sale de aeclady
Easy easy easye escesa
Esfera tf af esadet sesame aesje
Ecjyo a segeakr
* video starts with IN DA TRASH *
Us: Ooooooooh this gonna be guuuuud!
Jackie seems to like this clay.
*After clay dries*
Jackie: *mumbles angrily*
Me:
Wow, you must be real angry, Jackie.
"That's a load of salt"
Lol should be on a shirt/hoodie 😂
#NerdEFicationSquad
I know
Magie! You should name her Magie! Love her! Keep up the great work 👍
“when i first started i was no means the best crafter ever”
*proceeds to show sculptures 20 times my ability ever*
Melody Mayer Aww keep working at it! Trust me, when I started I was absolute trash, and a couple years later I'm selling at shows. Just do some research and mess around! You'd be surprised how far you can get :)
Crumbling Claya - the Volcano Dragon that couldn't take the heat, it cracked under the pressure... I could go on all day about this horrible clay!
I love crumbling claya I hope she picks it I stared laghing when I saw it😂😂
I've never found an air dry clay I liked... I really felt the pain when she fell off the base!! 😬
I think you should name her "Dangit" 😂
CowgirlEm XD yes I agree-
CowgirlEm probably bc the clay was pottery clay
I like Das clay, less slippery.
Roll your pieces about 1/4 inches thick, definitely use a foil filler on thicker pieces it will all dry at a more even pace. Make slip to glue the pieces together. Dried clay mixed with water and a little white glue. I think it looks great. The head has a turtle look and is unique. You did a great job
This is how many times she struggled with English
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Thank you guys SO MUCH for all the likes!! This is the most likes I've gotta. ☺️☺️
Are you englishing ok?
Ture
The M-Sound English #1
Can name her "Salty Cracks" 😂
I love this name
I don't like the cracks part
Yup amazing name I agree
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Agreed
my jaw dropped when that slid of and broke. shes so cute and for a name Kilauea after a Hawaii volcano
It's perfect
Something my mom and I used to do when using cheap air dry clay was mixing Elmer's glue into the clay alongside small amounts of water to keep it flexible and prevent cracking. I remember it worked pretty lovely.
Please recreate this with high end materials! ❤️🔥
Okay, I have some experience with natural clay so I'll give my tips.
As many have said, slipping and scoring is a big need! Especially if you do not smooth out the pieces to make one solid form (I've cheated when smoothing pieces together because usually the smoothed part can hold it). But, with the style, slipping and scoring is a must. For scoring, we'd usually use a serrated scraper tool or a fork to lightly brush lines into the clay. Not too deep, but enough to hold slip. Slip is just a mash of water and clay that can be applied via hand or with a brush.
Now I've never really seen natural clay that didn't have to be put in a kiln. Of course, different brands have different makeups, so I'm likely wrong. That being said I don't understand how they can say it wouldn't shrink. Shrinking is a big issue! And I've never found a type of natural clay that doesn't shrink. Even my own animal models have areas where the shrinking is obvious. For example, my dog-like model had a normal snout when he went into the kiln, but it bottlenecked when it came out. I think this is due to the clay have such a high amount of water in it, that when the water is taken out it just compresses.
Now I am surprised the dragon didn't just break because of the tinfoil, because I had been warned that natural clay would just break around anything inside of it. Seems not to be the case here!
Coron Whiteback from what I know, she was "Clickbaited" and used pottery clay
I’m thinking “Crumbelina” as a name. She’s still really cute Jackie 😸.
Mog Opal lmao dragggg
Crumbelina Mc Crackin 😆
I dont want to be mean, but: "Jackie you did it wrong!"
Natural clay is really special, and you must have some experience with it, it is sooo much different than polymer clay, natural clay can be fired which makes your piece much stronger, every piece of the sculpture has to blended together together, that is why the legs and other parts of your dragon fell off.
But if you know how to work with it, natural clay can be an amazing material to work with. But it was your first time working with it, you did great, i didn't know these things when i first started working with natural clay.
Pls just like so Jackie can see!!!👍👍👍
And the untreated wood sucked all the water out of the clay which made the cracking worse.
Thanks i didn't new that thanks you for the help 😁👍
Nope
I do loads of sculptures in air dry clay I recommend the clay from hobby craft it feels super nice to work with and really cheap and easy witch clay do you work with and where do you get it From? (>~●) I'm using it right now
@@nathiekupfer7269 Exactly, nutural clay is just really fine dirt basically, and polymer clay is a workable plastic that is why they are so different.
Dragon name: Caldera
It's the crater of an erupted volcano
YASS
^^^^^ please this one!
Please name her Magma or Firefly
(Firefly is a pun get it because she's fiery, and dragons fly...)
Nobody?
Ok.
* HumpbackStarXD * yas magma should be the name
i said magma too
Yes magma for the win
I get it!!
MAGMA!!!!!
I think that the correct name would be "dry-gone"
I think it should be cookie cake 🎂🎉🎊🎁🎂
I agree
Finally something original fo gosh sakes
I like jackie because she seems like a real person unlike other youtubers. She also is naturally funny and charismatic
Nerdy: What should she be named?
Me: Vulka, as in the fact dhe is made to be a vulkano dragon
volcano not vulkano
@@nelltierney9989 i made a typo, what the big problem? Maybe i meant to type it like that
Ooo I like that
Yaaa
@@Tarmewlia edit button does exist, and can't change the spelling of a word because you "feel like it"
dragonsandbeasties dragons are so cute! I love the colors in the dragon that Jackie was recreating!!
For my pottery class in school we used similar clay to what you did, I thing the dragon feel to pieces because you didn't use score marks when attaching the limbs and horns
She did tho I think...
Dollar stores also have cake decorating section usually, those tools can be great for sculpting
I'm wincing in anticipation, having spent many hours working with natural clay I can see where this is going to go wrong. Polymer clay is such a different beast to clay that needs to be fired in a kiln!
We should name her “Ember” 🔥🐉
Alina Peterson that's the name of one of my WOF SkyWing OCs >:D
@@echoedstars807 and mlp Dragon lord
Amelia iNtErEsTiNg
Yes
when i used to sculpt with clay in school the teacher had us mix some clay with water to make a kind of liquid sculpey looking paste and use it as glue, not saying it would have saved your project, but maybe it could have helped
arichanrainbow yeah same here our teacher called it slip And we also had to score before applying the slip so it would hold better
It helps if you have a squeezie bottle xx and if u make a wee bowl out of the clay and add watter to it it will make cement to hold the wee parts xx