March 19, 2010

Unicorn Final stages

I finally finished the Unicorn! I've already got the sketch for my next sculpt too HAHA!
Here she is with 3 coats of white paint. and one of a close up of the frisket over her Jade eyes so they dont get painted over. 


And here she is complete:



Heres a little close up of the moss.
This base is probably temporary; I want to cover it with real moss and stuff.



9"h x 6.5"l x 4"w
Made of Super Sculpey
Jade eyes
Painted with Airbrush and Acrylic Paint.
I'm Quite pleased! Quite.



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March 18, 2010

Unicorn Sculpture: It's in the Oven!

Right at this very moment the Unicorn is baking in the oven.
 I hope it's okay... Baking is always nerve racking. It gets soft before it get's heard and I'm always worried about the stability of my stuff.

I get ahead of myself. Here are some more photos of it before baking. 2 slightly different angles of the next stage: Tail nearly complete. base is all set up. I decided to stick with the sculpey base as I was able to sculpt her right onto it and make her more stable.
   
all my crummy encaustics in the background and my dirty palettes. definitely have some artists living here! HAHA!!

Then here it is right before going into the Oven:
The horn is a different colour because its made from sculpey bake and bend. I hope it works. I added it to keep her horn a little bit flexible because it's the one thing that never fails; the horn always breaks. hopefully by giving it a little bit of flexibility I can save myself some grief.

I just checked on it in the oven and broke the little vine off the front of it, ROFL! I can glue that back on.

When I'm done baking it I'm going to paint it with my airbrush and some schminke pastels for some highlight colours and top coat it. 
I know what I want to do with the base, but I don't know if I will ever get it done. I want to glue real moss and some little decorations on the base. we shall see.

well, I'm slow baking it at 225 degrees for several hours because I hear tell its a stronger sculpture, and less chance of cracking that way. Hope it works.

Approximate dimensions:
8"x8" (without the base)
I'll do some real measurements once it's baked.

Wish me luck!


March 17, 2010

Unicorn Sculpture in progress 1

Working on a sculpture of the Unicorn from Kittys Daqueran Comic lately, and its coming along nicely. I think I built a Nice sturdy armature this time.

Heres the unicorn: She's based off the more traditional Deer like Unicorns and she glows.



I decided I'm going to post in progress photos of this one, unfortunately I decided this a little late for showing off the Armature, but here is what I have so far.


Stage 1
 just covered the armature really, not much fleshing out done 




Stage 2
Fleshed out, added Eye balls (jade beads). starting working on the hips, and the shoulders quite a bit. the heads was mostly done


Stage 3 is not TOO much different from 2, but I redid the back leg, and fixed some of the issues with the neck. Did a bit more refining on the face.


I'll be replacing the base eventually. I don't like it being made of Sculpey too much. I will probably make it out of Celluclay and Attach real stuff to it, like moss and stuff.

stay tuned for more as it progresses :)
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