Portrait Sculpting 2

These pictures are progress of the portrait sculpture that I've been working on.

I started adding hair once when I think It gets a character. After added hair I noticed some parts are not correct compare to reference model, so I changed many places to make them correct using a measure tool. Even though placements of parts get corrected, those are still look different to a model. Which case I really need to observe reference pictures to see how muscles and skins cover on a face.

I wanted to measure every parts again, so I took hair off and start measuring again.

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 　　　　　　　　This picture above is the once got looks like a model
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 　　　These pictures above, I started measuring again and figure it out how muscles and skin work.　　　

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The some faces parts got unnatural looking in this picture, so I took hair off and measuring every parts again.

Usually this process takes time until sculptures looks like a model.

Portrait Sculpting1

I started portrait sculpting for a small commission. This sculpture is about half size or little less than half size of life size.

I usually try to establish planes, and then start adding more clay where it needs to be.
These photos shows adding clay after I finished to established planes. Even though I start adding clay, I still be aware planes, because if planes is not sured, everything can be distorted. I still see many distorted place in this pictures. To take pictures are help me to find points where I need to fix.

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GODZILLA 2014 statue final

These are final products of the painted statues. One in left is faux bronze painted, one in right is color painted.

For faux bronze painted statue, I applied matt black spray paint to the statue, then I sprayed clear spray to protect first coat. After that I painted metal paint color using a chip brush and rubbed by a finger. After finished metal paint, I spattered black, brown and fresh colors mixing with naphtha to create more   

vintage bronze look. Finally I sprayed matt clear spray for the finishing.

For color painted piece, I painted with almost all spattering technique. And I use thinned  black oil paint for painting small detail to make them clear.

GODZILLA 2014 statue 5

I started painting on the statue. First I sprayed with gray car primer. Then, I painted base colors. I basically mixed black, white and yellow for the head, neck and base. I just mixed different ratio of paints each sections.

After the base coat, I spattered with thinned red, blue and yellow(as known as three basic colors) using chopped chip brush. I also spattered some brown and color for the neck to make it more natural look translation between where the colors separates.

GODZILLA 2014 statue 4

I finally casted several pieces of the Godzilla statue. They turned out way better than test casting.

Here are some photos that I took. I like the view from top very much.

GODZILLA 2014 statue 3

The clay sculpture was molded two parts mold. First, I started to build up clay wall to separate in half. Then I applied silicone over the mold.

After silicone part, I made Hydrocal shell.

I did test casting using casting resin. The result wasn't good enough for what I wanted.

There are many micro air bubbles on a surface of the statue, and resin didn't go in to some spots.   

In this picture,  you can see the spots where resin didn't go in.

GODZILLA 2014 statue 2

I finally finished sculpting part of Godzilla. I did't want this piece to be screen accurate, but I like the result of this piece. So now this piece is ready for molding part. I'll keep continue to post about this statue.