Self Portrait: Hot off the Press

Here is a piece of work that I "finished" some weeks ago. I believe it turned out well as I have been recognized by people who have seen this mini.

Originally I was gonna paint this guy, but it turns out that I didn't have time and my professors thought I should leave it unpainted. Over the summer I plan to make a mold of this and cast several replicas. I can then leave the original unpainted and do whatever I want with the duplicates.

More to come later, I'm sure.

Figure Studies

As part of my Figure Studies critique, I needed to finish up the ceramic bust I made in class. As you can see, it's 1:1 scale, as it can wear my hat and shades. Next to it you can see a mini bust I'm working on as well!this way you can kinda see the scale I'm working in.

it's mostly terra cotta, but the white bits are epoxy putty. The reason it looks like he has a beard is because his face kinda, well fell off. I used the putty to clean up the seam and also as my adhesive. I also added an eyebrow for good measure.

Starting next weekend I'll be working on my Senior Show, and thus I'll be setting up a little miniatures workshop at home. I hope to have a mess of armatures within a few days of getting home.

Papercrafts for Show

One thing that I have been somewhat interested in for a while now are papercrafts, which are paper model kits which you print off and assemble.

Here you can see two that I have made completely from scratch. In the past I have extracted models and textures form WoW and run them through various programs to get them in this form, but in this case I built them in SketchUp and textured them either within that program or in Photoshop. They are by no means the most complicated or advanced papercrafts out there, but they are, as stated, actually origional!

Stay tuned, I have one or two other projects in the "Almost ready for Primetime" stage.