I told my mum about them and she had a look on ebay and found me some basic moulds, of which we got one with about 1 inch long faces and another with 3/4 inch long faces.
Due to a mix up the smaller ones got sent to her house so i experiemented with the larger ones when they arrived. I had some air drying clay called Das Pronto. So, i got on, and squished the clay to get out air bubbles, and then set to pushing into it the moulds. I did that and then realised I didn't know how to get them out again as the larger moulds weren't as detailed so I needed to etch details into the faces. Having done more research polymer clay like Fimo and Sculpey are better and are on the shopping list, but my clay ones have turned out sort of interesting. I had to lift the backs up to release them and then reshape them but out of the 8 i made 6 survived with varying results! I'd scribed the faces of some of them and tried to give them mouths. the one in the right top corner is going to get painted brown and be a tree spirit I think. the two middle ones I was going for an older look and the bottom central one may be the face for my witch halloween art doll. The others may just get used for paint experiments!
I've ordered a set of sculpey push moulds for art doll faces (the same ones used in the CQMagOnline tutorial) and should have that within the next three weeks and once I've got them to a standard I actually like I will start making lots. Will just have to be impatient till then!
I'm going to try some with the smaller moulds I have already later today with the airdrying clay as they have better details. Will photo as I go along and do a photo post in the next day or so.
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