I Think This Is The First Time I've Freaked Myself Out With My Own Sculpture. I Mean, I'm Pretty Proud

I think this is the first time I've freaked myself out with my own sculpture. I mean, I'm pretty proud of the little guy, but I definitely did not like seeing him in my kitchen. Ick.

In other news, I want to write love letters to Super Sculpey. This stuff is AMAZING. It never dries, it doesn't flake, it's easy to mold, and it even smells nice. Swooooon. Expect a lot more pinkish-beige sculptures in the future.

Super Sculpey, ~45 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.

I'm going to London! Last night, I talked to my friend Jon for the first time in ages and I realized I hadn't seen him since we went to college together in Canterbury. So, you know what? Let's go to London.

You can tell I got lazy and didn't do the other sides of the tower, and I didn't even bother to set up a little tableau for you. Instead, here's today's sculpture, exactly where I made it. I'll try harder tomorrow, scout's honor.

Marblex, ~45 min.

The homepage was looking colorless, so I decided to fill Dayna's request for a hot dog after all. This is the first one I haven't done from a reference photo, so it's pretty bare bones. I think the mustard's kinda cute, though. :)

RoseArt, ~20 min.

Here's how my thought process worked on those scary zombie eyes:

1. Let's put small circles on top of the larger circles so it looks like pupils!

2. Hmmm, there's not very much contrast. I'll come back to that.

3. Hey, this mouth looks great! Maybe I should hollow out the pupils instead of trying to build them up...

4. HOLY CRAP THAT'S FRIGHTENING.

5. (after taking pictures) Well, now he just kind of looks like he has goggles.

Lesson learned!

Marblex, ~60 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.