I'm Pretty Proud Of This One, Actually, Despite My Wretched Figure Sculpting Skills (case In Point: There's

I'm pretty proud of this one, actually, despite my wretched figure sculpting skills (case in point: there's a toothpick holding up her head). I've been reading a ton of comics lately, and today I picked up Fables: March of the Wooden Soldiers. This is Snow White, who is (spoiler!) a few months pregnant at this point in the story. I'm kind of obsessed with her hair.

She looks a little like Miss Piggy, a lot more sullen than I intended, her bone structure is insane (are her cheekbones upside down?), and she's apparently a quadruple amputee. But other than that...!

Marblex, ~40 min.

I thought about my Grandma a lot today. She's like the geek matriarch in my family, the first of the line of Trekker women. These books were hers, and then my mom's, and now mine. I love her lots and even though I was very sleepy by the time I remembered to make a sculpture today, I tried to make this a good one for her.

Marblex, ~30 min.

Usually, after I take a few pictures of the sculpture, I smoosh the little guy back into the scrap pile. But I was so enamored with my cute little Hypnotoad that I just couldn't. (I mean, I did, eventually...but I took a lot of pictures with him first. Possibly for my scrapbook. [Don't judge.])

Marblex, ~30 min.

Pre-game warmup.

Today's model was requested by Dayna, who said "make me a wolf!" I said, "there, you're a wolf," she rolled her eyes (presumably; this was over the phone), and then I made her this...fox. Does this look foxlike to anyone else? I'll always be a little more Team Mulder than Team Jacob, I guess.

I struggled with his face for ages. When I work, I like to get one feature done, one thing I know I can do really accurately, and go from there. If the other features look like they fit with the first part, then I know I'm on the right track. But I couldn't seem to get anything right...the nose, the ears, the eyes; all wrong. Hmmph.

He's awful cute, though.

Oh, and sorry about the terrible set design. I was going for "nighttime scene" and ended up somewhere closer to "Lisa Frank on a fireplace."

Marblex, ~30 min.

As if you hadn't figured it out by now, I'm a little on the nerdy side. When one of my all-time favorite shows, Futurama, came back from the dead last month, I may have gotten a little teary-eyed. Just a little. Which Bender would have totally disapproved of, of course.

(Look, a gray sculpture that's actually supposed to be gray!)

Marblex, ~50 min.