This Halloween Color Blanks figure had a pumpkin head and I was immediately inspired to see how I could transform it into something different. I took out my plastic clay and started molding pieces to make the face look scary and added spikes to the head. 

To modify the feet I extended some pieces of clay to create sharp toes. The teeth were created by taking some wooden sticks, much like popsicle sticks that you can purchase from a craft store, and cutting them up into little wood squares. I then painted them with acrylics and stuck this directly into the soft, unbaked clay.

I stuck my Halloween Color Blanks figure in the oven at about 250° suspecting that it would need to be baked at a little bit lower temperature because of not knowing how easily the plastic would melt. When I took the figure out of the oven everything looked pretty much intact except the hands got a little bit warped and bubbled from the heat.  In this case it lent itself to the modification and making my figure scarier but I would need to solve this on future custom Color Blanks. From the heat warping of the plastic figure it could also not stand correctly anymore. The solution I found was to mount the figure to a base with glue. I ended up using a base that I had from another figure that had broken a long time ago.

I finish my Color Blanks figure with a mixture of acrylic paints, sharpies and micron pens to achieve the desired look. If you get a chance check out some of my other custom figures too!

Customized Halloween Color Blanks Figure

These little kawaii polymer clay ladybug cupcakes were inspired by some amigurumi figures that my wife had seen on one of the many sites she browses when doing crochet work. If you haven’t seen them already you should check out my kawaii ladybug cupcake vector designs.

The kawaii ladybugs were made with solid colors of polymer clay and then I bought miniature colored fasteners to stick into them to make the eyes and spots on their backs. Like most kawaii the shapes were very basic when sculpting the figures. The colored fasteners come in a variety of colors, sizes and shapes and work great as eyes and accents to polymer clay figures.

I also used miniature cupcake tins to place the ladybug sculptures in. The cupcake tins were added with some adhesive after baking the ladybug figures. Generally I use a gel-based super glue.

In my experience with sculpting polymer clay onto Color Blanks I found that the plastic that is used to make these is not very tolerant to heat. As a result it’s a bit of a challenge to seamlessly sculpt pieces of polymer clay to your Color Blanks. The polymer clay will need to be heated to a certain degree in the oven and I found the pieces that are most susceptible to distortion are the arms and the body.

When I started on my Jak figure I sculpted his hair directly to the head without first cooking the clay. I use clay colors matching his native hair colors and molded them on until I got the desired look. I also made earpieces, eyebrows, shoulder pads and the straps in his chest plate. I then made the various pieces of his helmet but did not connect them.

I placed the polymer clay pieces of Jak in the oven inclusive of the Color Blanks soft plastic head. I cooked the clay about 15° lower than the recommended temperature but for a longer period of time. This seemed to work out well.

Then it was a process of painting and reassembling the Jak figure. I used acrylic paints of various colors until I achieved the desired effect.

Another important thing to note when reassembling the figure is that the head’s opening where it attaches to the body became distorted from the heat of the oven so I had to use an exacto knife to cut the opening larger to reassemble the head to the body.