Clayin' with Raven: Totoro Inspired Polymer Clay Pen Tutorial

Опубликовано: 24 Июль 2026
на канале: Darling Craftolate
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**Open Me** Thank you all very much for watching! If you wish, please rate, comment & subscribe. I really hope you enjoyed my tutorial. It took a very long time to film and I tried my best...I am still so new to making tutorials. I had well over an hour of footage so I tried to condense it. If you have any questions please don't hesitate to ask. If you make this pen please leave it as a video response or pm me and let me know, I would love to see it! I put some notes and such down below to accompany the tutorial. Much love to all my subbies! Thank you all so much!!!-Raven

Feel free to substitute as you see fit.

Tools Used:
-Bakeable pen (I used Bic)
-Toothpicks
-Needle tool (I made mine)
-ball tools
-long blade
-eye screw (or eyepin)
-TLS (optional)
-oven/toaster oven to bake
-Polymer Clay
-Acrylic Paint (or other paint you can use on clay)
-Paint Pallet (Optional)
-Glaze (I used DuraClear Gloss Varnish)
-Acetone & Cotton Swabs (optional)
-something to keep yur hands clean (I used baby wipes)
-toothbrush
-Something to use to hold the pen (I used a red, thin paint brush)

Clay used:
Fimo-Vanilla: For bottom of pen and Totoro's Belly
Premo!-Glitter Green: Grass & leaf colour
Premo!-Glitter Green, & White, Fimo-Pearl: Light green colour
Premo!-Black: Soot Sprites
Premo!-Black & White: Totoro
Premo!-18 K Gold & Allzarin Crimson Hue: Acorn

Paint used-All acrylic
I used: Black, White, light green, dark green, yellow
Use Black for: eyes, and Totoro's features
Create a dark grey for: Pattern on Totoro's Belly and bottom of ben
A shade of green a bit darker than the leaves: background
A very pale yellow: background

***Please note that I do not pre-make my items. I filmed the tutorial the first time I made this creation. There were a lot of trials and errors.

Links
Darling Craftolate
Channel:    / @darlingcraftolate  
Website: http://darlingcraftolate.weebly.com

Music:
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0
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Kevin Macleod Friendly Day (incompetech.com)
http://incompetech.com/music/royalty-...

Totoro is a character owned by Studio Ghibli and this is a pen inspired by that character.