Realistic Skin Texture

This tutorial on sculpting realistic skin texture would be helpful to anyone looking to create a creature specimen. If you're working with polymer clay I'd suggest applying a texture, any texture, to the skin of your creature. It doesn't take much effort and helps avoid the fake looking finish of raw, hand-sculpted Sculpey. Even something as simple as using a crumpled up ball of aluminum foil to impress a pattern into the clay will add an immense amount of realism.