What kind of material to use

First of all, what kind of material you can use to sculpt. Each kind of material can be used for a specific task.

• The basic one is the water clay :
  

This is very cheap and can be used to learn. There is often no need to bake your sculpt, just let dry (look on the notice). Don't hesitate to try every thing you want. If it's not a success you can smash your creation and retry. I think that the better way to learn is to try without any complex. The first sculpt will probably not be like you wanted, but the second will be more easy to do and so on.

Try, try, try and have fun !!!

• The second material is the super sculpey :
  

I can't find any shop near Paris that sold this material. But in all sculptor forum we can see that a lot of great sculptor use it.

• The material that I used all the time is the fimo :
  

It's quite simple to use with few constraint. The Fimo will not dry if you let it outside for a long time (even several month). When you have finished your sculpt, you just have to bake it in a regular oven (30 minutes to 150 °C). You can bake it as many time as you want, and you can add some fresh Fimo on baked sculpt.

• Next is the green stuff :

It's use to make some small figurine. It's just two materials you have to merge (blue + yellow = green :)) , after that you have about less than half an hour before it's become hard. Sometimes you can use it to make the armature (squeletton) of your sculpture.

• The last one that I know is the wax :
  

I never used it but, I have seen a lot of sculptor that use it for making little detail. They often make a first sculpt with sculpey, make a casting (moulding), replicate their piece in wax and make small detail.