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Sharing some things I have been working on...
Here we have a commissioned bust sculpture of a big toony hyena gal. The multicolored clay was my "aha!" solution to some sculpting issues I had been having with the bust, in particular the way the hair was arranged (attempting to not deform it).
She's going to be painted too! I don't often take painted commissions (I'd rather be sculpting than coloring) but I am looking forward to the results. :)
Here we have a commissioned bust sculpture of a big toony hyena gal. The multicolored clay was my "aha!" solution to some sculpting issues I had been having with the bust, in particular the way the hair was arranged (attempting to not deform it).
She's going to be painted too! I don't often take painted commissions (I'd rather be sculpting than coloring) but I am looking forward to the results. :)
Category Sculpting / Fat Furs
Species Hyena
Size 600 x 600px
File Size 53.3 kB
Most of the clay is Super Sculpey Firm (the grey stuff) which is, like it's name, really freaking hard. <XD I actually mixed it with regular Super Sculpey to make it a little easier to sculpt with. The peach-colored bit in her eye is just plain Super Sculpey, and the brown stuff is Sculpey III. The softer clays I used to fill in areas that needed some detail fixes, but I was concerned about damaging them by trying to smash harder clay into. The white parts are an epoxy-based clay called Magic Sculp that was applied after the sculpture was baked, to fill in small gaps and whatnot. :)
ooooh ok . nice. :3 i just took ceramics and we made all our own clay. mixing the grog and flint ash etc. but if sculpty firm is hard then why not only use that for a base for the sculpture and then the use regular sculprty for details? then again, when you pushing out masterpeices like that. who am i to be asking questions XD
Wow I really need to catch up on people's work. It's looking great so far. To me you seem to be as good of a portrait sculptor as one can get. I hope you don't mind my listing a few things that I think I see in you as an artist, that make your work so nice. Whether it makes any sense I don't know. It's just how I see things for whatever it's worth:
You have a nice understanding of organic form which makes the way you abstract it leaving certain aspects neutral, (the stable width of some incised line for example,) feel really alive. Your consistent attention to every square cm* keeps the illusion from being broken. The way you're honest with the medium and work it in a subtly expressive way makes the medium it's self forgotten. Anyway I can leave it at that.
*This also makes looking at a wip a good experience. That's because one can almost guess a few next moves. ..so what's not done isn't a problem.
You have a nice understanding of organic form which makes the way you abstract it leaving certain aspects neutral, (the stable width of some incised line for example,) feel really alive. Your consistent attention to every square cm* keeps the illusion from being broken. The way you're honest with the medium and work it in a subtly expressive way makes the medium it's self forgotten. Anyway I can leave it at that.
*This also makes looking at a wip a good experience. That's because one can almost guess a few next moves. ..so what's not done isn't a problem.
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