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Sculpture Update

At last I've got around to posting how I got on with the sculpture of my Mii (see previous post). It's been great fun working on her but I'm not sure whether to leave her eyes as they are or fill them and paint them on like I plan to paint the eyebrows. I'm still thinking about how to do her glasses but the next step is the baking. I hope she survives.

COB Mii Sculpt

Labels: Mii, Sculpture

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.

Animex Sculpt

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:

Miis Sketch

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):

Mii Sculpt, First Pass

I'll post more as I progress.

Labels: Mii, Sculpture

Advent

In the run up to Christmas I ran a one day session making paper mache Nativity figures with the children of the parish of St Nicholas’s Church in Gosforth. The theme was loosely based on the Mexican Christmas tradition of the Posada and it was great day! I am always surprised by paper mache as it is a lo-tech technique that produces striking results. Here are some pictures of the figures.