No rest for the sculpters...

Today was spent talking to my dear goblin..im becomming rather attached to Shegoblin as the days go by. i spend around 5 and a half hours a day staring at her, and developing her into the perfect character.... i think this might be love... aswell as talking to the teracotta darling, i carried on perfecting overall shapes, sculpting a protruding spine, and then scratching the hell out of the whole thing...this feels slightly brutal and goes against every instinct, but it allows all the harsh lines to become soft and therefore more natural looking.... more pics Rrrregarde:

Sculpting

Once the water based sculpt was more or less finished i then moved on to copying it in wax based clay...alot easier said than done!.....bring out the callipers, tape measures, pokey sticks to test depth of clay, and a hell of a lot of modelling clay...and an oven to make the thumb blisteringly stiff clay, pliable and therefore, bearable.....

today was spent perfecting shapes, more measuring and in my case ears!...

Casting life, as far as a large block of plaster...

6 weeks of prostheticy fun has just started.... week 1 - life casts. we all had to have one done, and do one on someone else. A fun week with the possibility of suffocating a class mate...everyday's a school day! First up, me life casting Steph...

then it was Stephs revenge!...

and, once the moulds had been filled with plaster we were left with our doubles...heres me and...well, me...

week 2 - sculpting starting with water based clay we map out a rough design...

then after about 4 hours of trying out different ideas, i begin to shape the clay more, add wrinkles and texture to the clay.

more characters of wander!

And now for possibly my finest hour....

Jodi becomes....

Rowland!

a little revision

Pefecting the bruise Regarde:

Skin Illustrator bruising, New red bruising, and older greeny grey bruising.

Using grease paint to create a healing black eye and grazed chin...