Friday, December 26, 2014

Holiday sculpting


 Since I'm out of town for the holidays, I stopped something that I've been working on, instead of that I sculpted a servant of the palace under the sea.(inspired by Japanese folklore "Urashima Taro" ) this was a just quick sketch that I sculpted in few hours. I'm thinking this is going to be new piece for next year.







 I also sculpted our dog. those were sculpted in monster clay. it's really good for sculpt if you want to sculpt quickly. just put clay into a microwave, and warm it up few minutes. It doesn't have bad smell and non toxic.

Sunday, October 26, 2014

Godzilla vs MUTO Statue

 Godzilla vs MUTO sculpture. "Kiss of Death" Casted in resin and finished like Ivory.








                           

Thursday, October 23, 2014

Little fun

Made small portrait head in clay and casted in gelatine.

First I casted without no pigments, then I decided to add some pigment which is some fresh acrylic paint thinned with water.

After demoed it from a mold, I also add spatter paint.

This was a quick and fun little experiment. I put it on my desk, and a week later it shrunk and got mold.

Now, I also want to try to cast in silicone too.


without pigments



 with fresh pigments



a week later



Monday, September 22, 2014

W.I.P2

I made a mold for Godzilla part, and test casted. It looks overall good.
Now I need to work on his teeth and MUTO's head.


Thursday, September 11, 2014

W.I.P

Here is some pictures that I've been working on recently.
It should be done soon.

Early image

and here is more progressed picture.
MUTO head is taken off for sculpting Godzilla's chest.




Monday, July 7, 2014

Portrait Sculpting 3

After a while, the sculpture is done and I started making a mold of it.








I usually make a dividing wall using wed clay, but this time, I want to try another way. I'm thinking two parts silicone and plaster bandage shell.




I applied first layer of silicone on the sculpture to get details. I also start adding thickened  silicone to under cut.

I will apply second coat when silicone sets.

Saturday, June 14, 2014

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.

Tuesday, June 3, 2014

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.



Day1


Day2

Wednesday, May 28, 2014

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.







Thursday, May 22, 2014

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.



Thursday, May 15, 2014

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.








Monday, May 12, 2014

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.



Tuesday, May 6, 2014

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.