Lunchtime sketches

Doodling in the park

Spiney head - turpenoid smoothing

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Progress on the monster guy bust

 Started adding details, perhaps too many. I don't want this to become Harryhausen Kraken mixed with the Creature FTBL.

Probably going to change the horns and stuff and looking forward to firmer clay next time. Still not sure how to keep my surfaces nice. Some details seem random but I would love to have all textures and marks feel "intentional"

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creatures

WIP my first clay bust

My first clay bust. I had a good time building this armature and sculpting platform (scrap wood, lazy susan, pipes all cheap at the hardware store).

I'm using Sculpey classic recipe. It's really soft but I have it already and since this is my first attempt it's probably going to be ok..

Started out doing an "innsmouth look" guy but I want to do that right, this guy turned into a dragon man of sorts. Still not sure what his skis is made of but I do want to try some really fine details. Seems hard in...Read more

Casting

Making the frame again for the second half - I pulled off the plastelina and flipped him over (plastelina in this pic is just filler and I maintained a 1/2 inch between the wall and the figure) Read more

Concept for the next sculpture

The spaceman casts came out ok but actually want to try a brush-on mold with support shell so I'm going to remold him.

In the meantime! I'm liking rhinos this year so I'm going to try a detailed rhino-thing head. This might not be the final design but it is sketch 1.

Pouring the first half of the mold

 Demolding the first half. I made a predicable error and didn't have enough silicone Oomoo 30 to create both halves of the mold so I decided to make one half for now. There is an iphone app for calculating how much you need - should have checked PLUS I had a small leak in the plastelina block so I lost about 15% of the silicone to the interior of the clay blocking.

I used plastelina to displace as much silicone as I could knowing that in the end I'm gonna have to wrangle with that when I cast - having each h...Read more

Mold-making and casting step-by-step THE COSMONAUT UNDEAD

First sketching out ideas and a concept painting.Read more

It's a bird!