A Return to Blogging with a Sculpture Post

I haven't blogged for ages but it's something I'd like to start up again so I thought I'd begin with a post on sculpting.

In February this year I attended the Animex Festival and did the one-day sculpture workshop with Nick Roberson of Mackinnon & Saunders and who work on Tim Burtons 'Corpse Bride'. It was a great session where I learnt loads about technique and gained my first experience of producing a sculpt.

Here are the results, the reference was from an unused character from the 'Corpse Bride' and is plasticine on a wire armature.

































So this inspired me to do a sculpt of my Mii as I am so fond of it (and one of my boyfriend's Mii to go next to it). Here are my planning sketches:














Here's my armature made in the way Nick taught us:
































This time, instaed of plasticine, I'm using Super Sculpey and which was inspired by Peter Konig's fantastic tutorial on Concept Art.Org and because I want the sculptures to be a bit more durable. Here is my first pass at laying on the sculpey (about three-hours work so I guess I need to speed up):
























I'll post more as I progress.