Me: Is It Ok If I Take A Few Pictures?

Me: Is it ok if I take a few pictures?

Instructor: Why, do you need to prove to someone you were here?

Me: Yeah, it's for the judge. This is my court-ordered community service.

Instructor: (seriously) Wouldn't be the first time.

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.

Today I was busy helping my best friend move, so I made a quick octopus in the car on our way to Woodland. In the interest of full disclosure, I also blatantly ripped off the design from a little framed drawing in my hallway.

But before the epic moving day, Dayna and I took a trip to Flax, which is probably the best art store ever. All I bought was a little $0.89 brush, but I'll definitely be going back. Check it out:

Blue Play-Doh, ~20 min.

Pre-game warmup.

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.

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.