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I've already told you on AIM, but hey -
this is absolutely fab. The character design is great, she looks very "alive", and all the little details are just amazing - the different textures on clothes, hair, fur, etc, the little buttons and whatnot on the jeans - oh and I love the Radiohead hoodie ;)
BTW, is this a character of your own devising, or were you working from someone else's specifications?
this is absolutely fab. The character design is great, she looks very "alive", and all the little details are just amazing - the different textures on clothes, hair, fur, etc, the little buttons and whatnot on the jeans - oh and I love the Radiohead hoodie ;)
BTW, is this a character of your own devising, or were you working from someone else's specifications?
Oh man I was waiting so anxiously for someone to mention the radiohead hoodie. :D I think that's why Defender watched me, though he didn't bring it up.
As for the character, it depends on whether you think it sucks. If it sucks, it was totally a commission by
ceilingcat -- that guy has no taste.
If you think it's okay, well then yeah I did actually want something just for myself. I sorta added random attributes until I was done the sculpt. This was the result.
As for the character, it depends on whether you think it sucks. If it sucks, it was totally a commission by
ceilingcat -- that guy has no taste.If you think it's okay, well then yeah I did actually want something just for myself. I sorta added random attributes until I was done the sculpt. This was the result.
I cheated and bought a book. You can run sections of damp fabric through a pasta press with a thin sheet of clay to harvest the texture. Or continually roll a strip of gold and black together in a certain way to get the strands of hair look. I'm stoked you get the cartoony feeling and hopefully liveliness from my stuff. Ah can't stands a dead lookin' sculpture.
pasta press? where would you use that kind of texture? or did you o.o ? the hair one makes sense though. Still never would have thought of it. and even knowing how you did it I couldn't pull it off as amazingly as you did. And that's assuming I could even pull it off :P But yes, i really do like that cartoony feel and that fun action pose. You certainly dont have "dead sculptures" and it totally rocks!
I just can't get over how much detail is in your work. Even if you used some sort of template for the textures that doesn't account for things like the seem of the pants or the strings on the hoodie. You did that yourself by hand and that sort of thing is what makes your work so much fun to admire ^^
I just can't get over how much detail is in your work. Even if you used some sort of template for the textures that doesn't account for things like the seem of the pants or the strings on the hoodie. You did that yourself by hand and that sort of thing is what makes your work so much fun to admire ^^
The press lacks the blade that would normally cut pasta into strips for kitchen use, it just compresses clay into poifect sheets. It's used to force the fabric against the thin clay sheet.
That and I get to use a crank! A god damned crank!
Thanks for all your kind words. :)
That and I get to use a crank! A god damned crank!
Thanks for all your kind words. :)
Very nice! I just started working with sculpey recently, however I don't have the money to buy the colored clays... I have to paint them myself. This makes little details like pawpads and buttons pretty messy, as paint tends to be... Do you think if I were to paint little parts like that and then attach them with glue once they dry, it would work any better?
That's certainly one option, I used it for the tiny cookies on the plate for this one. You can see though the cookies don't fit real well on the plate. I have some positively microscopic brushes at my disposal for facial details and other tiny stuff. Colored clays let me do the neat hair pattern in this one but I actually tend to avoid them. If you get one bit of dust or lint on them during the sculpt it looks really unprofessional.
Regarding painting, since sculpey is oil based, a tiny layer of oil will form on the surface during baking. It's not greasy or anything, just looks plastic-like. If you're using acrylic paints that are even slightly dilute (and they should be for a smooth surface), the water will bead atop the oil. The trick is to degrease the sculpture before painting. Go over it gently with an old toothbrush or paintbrush and some rubbing alcohol. Leave it to dry on the surface, no need to rinse. The paint will no longer fight you.
Regarding painting, since sculpey is oil based, a tiny layer of oil will form on the surface during baking. It's not greasy or anything, just looks plastic-like. If you're using acrylic paints that are even slightly dilute (and they should be for a smooth surface), the water will bead atop the oil. The trick is to degrease the sculpture before painting. Go over it gently with an old toothbrush or paintbrush and some rubbing alcohol. Leave it to dry on the surface, no need to rinse. The paint will no longer fight you.
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