Showing posts with label sculpey. Show all posts
Showing posts with label sculpey. Show all posts

Saturday, March 18, 2017

January 2017 sketchbook / Creatuanary art!







Sculpey kitty-dog I ended up giving to Mom!  


Day 1: Harpy (Grizelle, from Paradigm Chimera)


Day 2: Hippocampus (whale-based!)


Interlude: Oaxacan Honeybee for my friend, Elsa! It was actually a gift for her beekeeper friends; they give her honey throughout the year. She told me they loved it! 





Final details added with colored pencil.


Visited Mom's work after hanging out with Elsa. Mom has a bunch of my early Sculpey figurines at her cubicle. :D


Finch and I contemplate the meaning of being 29.


Day 3: Stirge (mosquito-bat hybrid from Dungeons and Dragons)



Day 4: Chimera



Day 5: Lamia


Day 6: Hydra


Day 7: Tzika





Day 8: Gryphon (Silverclaw, from Legacy [working title])


Day 9: Mutated T-rex



Sir John Hurt passed away on January 25th. Three of his films had immeasurable impact on me as an artist and person: Watership Down, The Plague Dogs, and The Elephant Man. I drew Hazel, Snitter, and Joseph "John" Merrick, respectively, to represent each film.


Musky, my faithful Smilodon model.


Day 10: Manticore (based off of Musky)


Mass catch-up strikes again!

I jumped on the Creatuanary train a little late. I completed only 10 of 31 prompts, but it was still needed practice! The early months of any given year are when I'm at my most fickle. I like having different things to do, even when I try to complete a drawing challenge.

Thursday, February 13, 2014

Sculpture: Kitty-Dog!

My aunt introduced me to Sculpey clay in 1999. It's a polymer-based, oven-baking clay that's perfect for building small figurines, of which I built dozens upon dozens. It gets stiff with age, but it doesn't dry out; the Sculpey I have on hand is around 12-14 years old!

In December, I got the sudden urge to make a figurine: I was aiming for a cat, but it turned into a kitty-dog.







Eyes are glass seed beads.
Although I monitored kitty-dog's baking time, I ended up baking it
too long: singed ears, eyebrows, and nose - oops!

The last figurines I'd sculpted? - Christmas tree ornaments from 2006. I sculpted the kitty-dog using some of the same clay mixtures I'd used on these two:

2006 photo.
2013 photo during my holiday visit to my parents'.
I have a maquette in the works (temporarily on hold) for one of Brainsick's more devious characters. I'll post progress for her soon!