another week, another bjd?
oldoni February 29th, 2008
bug was so much fun, i started another…
(ok, is it possible i’m avoiding doing all the sanding and cleaning and molding and casting on bug?
nahhhhhh - never….)
about 8 inches (with 1 inch heels! )
bjd in a week
oldoni February 19th, 2008
this last week i had planned to be at an ecorche/anatomy class in Scottsdale Arizona… but things didn’t work out. But i still had the week signed out of work as vacation — so i decided to see if I could psych myself into getting an entire sculpt done in that one week. I tend to lose interest or focus and spend more time surfing the web than sculpting when i have days off — i need to break myself of that!
so i set myself a goal to complete a small (around 8″) ball jointed doll in 7 days. It was surprising what took overly long, and what went well. Drawing a concept drawing so i could map out the joints just about did me in and took up most of the first day. (ok, actually - work called and I went into work for 5 hours, so the drawing took up most of what remained of that day) —- while the elbow and knee joints actually went quickly when i forced myself to stop telling myself I couldn’t do them - and just sat down and squished the clay.
so anyway - here are pics of bug —– 10″ fully functional bjd in grey superfirm sculpy.
a little too cute - but i’m happy with how he/she works…
yet another basilisk pic
oldoni January 21st, 2008
not thinking of him as a basilisk anymore. he turned out kind of sweet and ineffectual.
basilisk progress
oldoni January 18th, 2008
what a crazy week. (hmmm, seems like I said something similar about last month, and probably last fall — weird. do I see a trend starting here? )
but at least the basilisk is progressing.
my son with the zombie phobia told me i was getting a little too weird for him. I didn’t see it. but i’m taking the comment under advisement. my daughter just said the figure was really evil. so I think he is sort of a success, though i just think he is really, really old. (
sigh.
ok, i kind of get the impression that my sense of humor is perhaps best categorized as lame. )
I have the dreadful temptation to put a couple of insect wings hanging out of his mouth, like he has been caught in the act of munching a fairy….
I’ve been staying towards the safer side of the images in my head. i’ve always had very vivid nightmares, and mostly they aren’t images that i can make in 3d — should have been a painter i think, if i really wanted to inflict them on anyone else. But i decided to try to make some of the kinder, gentler images come to life. Maybe eventually i’ll get to the ones that scare me.
anyway - what do you think?
next steps —- I love photoshop
oldoni January 9th, 2008
took another pic to see how things are going — I’ve noticed that I see issues in pictures that I don’t see when I look at the piece in person - so i’m teaching myself to take pics from various angles as I work, and check to see how it looks.
took the opportunity this time to see how he would look with a shorter tail, and thinking about the size of the back legs and arms —- just very rough strokes of the paintbrush to give me an idea….
starting to add texture to the leg, and bulk out his neck too….
armature taking shape
oldoni January 6th, 2008
decided to build an illusion of the skeleton as part of the armature. I want to see if laying the skin of premier over this makes it easier to get the bony effect i see in my head.
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the site is The Boneman.)
hey, this might work…..
oldoni January 5th, 2008
i’ve moaned before about my blunt, clumsy hands and how i wish i could work in miniature size… for one thing, boy would it make it easier to ship these things - which might make me feel better about selling them (and boy would i love the extra money sometimes…. clay, resin and silicon mold stuff add up so blamed fast - and then there is that whole book addiction thingie….)
but another really good side benefit would be that the blamed things would fit in ovens when its time to dry the clay (or bake it…..)
its been pretty cold here lately - (i’m in the San Jose area of California so take that statement with a large grain of salt….. ) and we’ve been running our gas fireplace — the cats and the chihuahua have found their new happy place
and I noticed that the cat was sleeping wistfully in front of the currently cold gas fire and thought - why not?
this clay is Diamond - it turns red if the heat gets above about 250 or so — it will be interesting to see what color the feet turn…. (there is going to be a finishing layer of Premier over the Diamond )
anyone else out there currently getting flooded by more rain than i’ve seen since we moved here from Mass about 15 years ago? I don’t think we are going to have to worry about the whole drought thing this year after all!
old head
oldoni December 29th, 2007
signed up to take a class from Bill Nelson who I greatly admire, on making character heads. wonderful to see all the pics of heads he has done.
his way of doing things doesn’t come natural for me - but it inspired me to try to do something my own style that has the degree of life and character that his has…
so this is the head i’ve been working on….
not sure if i’ll ever end up doing anything with it, but it was fun to make all the wrinkles and put the hair on …. maybe i’ll try again more in my own scale (this head is about 7″ tall!) and see what happens…
ok, tried again, in paperclay — paperclay works completely differently than polymer does.
it was much harder to get the face going - but once the features were in place, manipulating the wrinkles actually seemed a little better in the paperclay.
this head is smaller - only about 5″ tall. still not as small as I need.
fun though.
