Practice Sculpting, Episode 2

A little refining. I'm starting to like this guy.  I might try to mold it after texturing and before moving on to the muscles.

Taking photos makes it easier to see where it still needs work, for some reason.

Practice Sculpting, Episode 1

I've started a small sculpt that I will add to a little at a time.  It's not going to be used for anything other than practice.  The plan is to start with the skull and build out from there.  Right now I'm blocking out the forms.  This is about an hour or two in.

The whole thing's about 4 inches tall, Chavant NSP Soft clay

Spiders for a Frog

Have you heard about the Davis Graveyard Spiderfest 2010?

Of course you have.  But I'll summarize just in case...
Chris Davis (the Frog Queen) of the Davis Graveyard (yes, the Davis Graveyard) wants YOU to make a spider to hang in their tree for this year's haunt.  So head on over and learn all about it.


I'm basically done with my contribution as of today.

What the heck? Where are his legs?!

Well, going on the assumption that the Davises are handy with a glue gun, I'm shipping it with detached appendages so he fits in a smaller box.  Here's what it will be like with them:

Okay?  Everybody happy now?  Good.  Progress pics below.

When I got to covering the armature, I ended up building up a ribcage type thing to give the rear end more structure.

There's a little Tim Burton and a little Stolloween in there... subconscious inspiration?

Painted Skins

Ready to haunt other graveyards and laboratories across the globe...

Texas

Virginia

Australia

I like the subtle differences between each paint job.