Here's my current work in progress shots on an octopus sculpture I've got in the works. I'm working in Chavant clay for the first time and finding it quite nice to work with. I'm planning to do a limited run of this guy in bronze.
Still got it after 6 Years...
Here's a hand fabricated ring I made for my brother’s new wife. The diamonds came from some rings from her grandmother and the ring was constructed from 19K white gold sheet. This is one of the first major rings I’ve done in 6 years. Nice to see I can still pull it together.
ÉCORCHÉ for Entrance
I'm currently trying to get entrance into an advance anatomy sculpting course but I have to prove my anatomy knowledge and sculpting skill since most of my scuplt are stylized. To gain admittance to this course I have decided to basicly do what we're going to cover in the course but in half scale (12" tall instead of 24" tall).
Note: I have been accepted! Yahoo!
This is a work in progress with currently 27 hours into the sculpt.
Note: I have been accepted! Yahoo!
This is a work in progress with currently 27 hours into the sculpt.
Gollum
I made my "Gollum" sculpture using the ecourche technique by building the skeleton first, then layering the muscles and skin over top. In my class we were watching the Load of the Rings special features and I decided to make my study into my version of Gollum. I liked the versions of Gollum in the Hobbit and the Lord of the Rings cartoons so my sculpt reflects more of that kind of gnarly/elfin look. I hoping to getting around to casting this guy in bronze this year.
Fairy Dragon
This is a small sculpture of a Fairy Dragon I did for fun and gave to my dad who liked all dragons.
Skull Ring
Here's a ring I did before my jewelry apprenticeship. It is anatomically correct and the mandible is hinged.
Ronaldinho
When I first started at Action Pants INC we had the privilege of having Noel Baker do a sculpting workshop with us. Noel was the lead sculptor on Tim Burton’s Copse Bride and the Brisk Iced Tea commercials among other projects and was nice enough to come over from Manchester England and give us some tips and tricks for doing caricatures. I want to work on the Brazilian soccer player Rolandinho who has this crazy face. We didn’t have a lot of time to get this done since Noel’s time here was limited so I ended up doing a quick sculpt in plasticine.
Roland
This guy Roland has been a work in progress for a long time and the Culture Crawl gave me a good excuse to get him finshed.
I started him when I was going to school at the Vancouver Film School and he was the focus of my demo real.
Here's the original concept:
I wanted to do a sculpt of him and got most of it block out.
For the Culture Crawl I blew the dust off the old guy and attacked the project with new zeal! I rework the proportions and started to carve in the detail.
Next is to patch up the fractures from baking the Sculpey, prime and then paint.
I started him when I was going to school at the Vancouver Film School and he was the focus of my demo real.
Here's the original concept:
I wanted to do a sculpt of him and got most of it block out.
For the Culture Crawl I blew the dust off the old guy and attacked the project with new zeal! I rework the proportions and started to carve in the detail.
Next is to patch up the fractures from baking the Sculpey, prime and then paint.
Tiki Guys
It's been a long time since my last post due to some crunch time at work and the Eastside Culture Crawl which is an awesome 3day art show. We had over 800 people through Octopus Studio! You can check out the blog here: http://octopusstudios.blogspot.com/
I've been teaching jewellry classes there and been working on some sculptures for myself.
One of my project was some life-size Tiki guys for the Action Pants studio. I've taken some picture of the work in process so check it out:
To start, I got a large black and white printout of a Tiki Guy by the artist Shag and then transfered the image on to 3" thick styrofoam.
I then cut out the outer form with a spirial blade in a jewelers saw frame.
From there, I routered out the different levels of relief and destressed the styrofoam to look like old wood with an hobby knife.
I've been teaching jewellry classes there and been working on some sculptures for myself.
One of my project was some life-size Tiki guys for the Action Pants studio. I've taken some picture of the work in process so check it out:
To start, I got a large black and white printout of a Tiki Guy by the artist Shag and then transfered the image on to 3" thick styrofoam.
I then cut out the outer form with a spirial blade in a jewelers saw frame.
From there, I routered out the different levels of relief and destressed the styrofoam to look like old wood with an hobby knife.
The Craig Head
At Action Pants INC where I work we had this great art director there who was kind of our company mascot. For a joke when Craig decided to leave Action Pants we made a paper craft head so we would always have him around. My friend Yuki made a 3d modeling Maya and I converted it to a paper craft model using this program:
http://www.tamasoft.co.jp/pepakura-en/
After many hours of constuction it was completed then abused...
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