SculptorbyDay, The Early Years 3

 















This little guy was probably my favorite back in the day. Its kind of a complex model, but it is a guy with swords coming out of his arms and two cannon-arm thingies coming out of his back. He has a huge backpack on that is a teleporter. So awesome. If you look at the enlarged version you can see how I tried to paint the gems as if they were clear, keeping in mind that they are 1-2 mm long.

Because I didn't think that the colors were well-represented, I have included a third, modern-day pic of the whole crew as a bonus.

SculptorbyDay, The Early Years 2

Here are two more figures from my youth. They are about the same size as the green guy from before. I was big into this color scheme at the time. Tomorrow I will post my favorite model, and then the finished death sculpture the next day. I also dropped off the mother and son figurine, and it should be fired by next weekend.

SculptorbyDay, The Early Years 1

The first picture is of the first figure I ever painted. Its a robot beetle thingy, about half an inch long. I painted it when I was in elementary school, hanging out in my friend Paul's garage. The second picture is of the last figure I painted before I moved away from this hobby, when I was 15. He's a little over an inch tall. I took the photos during my first foray into posting my work online, though I wont tell you guys where because there is also embarrassing teenage poetry posted on that account.

In any case, painting the death figure is going pretty well, but I think I'm just going to dry-brush the highlights instead of getting down to every detail by itself. A good friend of mine once told me that my work has a heaviness to it, and I'm seeing what she meant with this guy. I think that the goal for my next project will be to move away from that heaviness.

Paint and Childhood Memories

I've started to paint the death figure with water-based acrylics. I am at the stage of the piece where I start to see everything that is wrong with it. I do want to finish it however-- I looked around my room and saw how many projects I have left unfinished.

It was the mother and child figurine that really made me realize how difficult it can be to actually see a sculpture through to completion. After asking around for quite some time, I have finally found a place that should get it fired for me, named Creative Clay. Most places don't want to put other's work in jeopardy because they don't trust that a stranger knows enough to keep his or her work from exploding. And the Torpedo factory does not do bisque firing. Thankfully, firing is one of the services that Creative Clay offers specifically.

While I paint the death figure, my plan for the blog for the next few days is to post pictures that I took when I was 13 or 14 or something. I was painting tiny war game figures at the time, from Games-Workshop. I hope you guys like them. Also, I have another guest-spot planned from everyone's favorite Computer Genius, The Noah. Stay tuned.

Death, Ready for Baking

I've spent 3-4 weeks on this guy, and I think he is ready to bake.

I really like making these models. If anyone has ideas of a character that I could make, I'm open to suggestions.

Death, now in 3D

While I work on getting the figurine fired, I have started a new project. I'm pretty excited about this guy. I need to spend a significant amount of time tightening up the form and details, but the final plan is to cook him (its made of super sculpey), and then paint him with acrylics.

I'm really liking the super sculpey. It feels like soft cheese. Along with a sturdy armature, it is a nice medium to work in.

Figurine Update 6

The painting is finally done. It looks similar to the last post, but the lines are more clear, and there is no clay showing anymore. There may be a few more tweaks, but this is pretty much how the figure will look. Now I have to actually figure out when, where, and how to fire it.