Heroes Con and Summer

The end of classes came and went. I went to Heroes con 2011 for the next weekend and was in charge of the SCAD booth for hopefully my last year. I had a blast getting everything running, and I was running nonstop all weekend. I will say it was the best Heroes con experience I have ever had and yet also the worst. The bad was all on Friday and after that it was all good. I got to meet Bernie Wrightson which was nice and made a few more great connections which I loved.

Now that summer is here I am working on my toys again. I have a full summer of writing classes and working on my house, but every other day or so I am working on making my own rotational moldmaking machines. I am making two. The learning curve is already happening and I realize when I make another one everything that I am going to do differently and better. I need these now so I will deal with my janky models that should be done by the middle of next week. Once I get them tested and going well I will start posting again. I have a LOT to post here and I will be doing so to promote my new line of toys plus everything else I am going to be working on over the summer.

Wow

SO I've gone an AWFUL long time without any sort of posting on here. I have no excuse. I have a lot of new sculpts I have been working on too. Im not going to lie. It will probably not until June when I will start posting regularly but then I will be back on top of it. I have a few commissions plus my own sculpts going on right now. I should be doing school work paper work etc. but Id rather be sculpting. And so that is what I am doing. I am sculpting on 8 different sculpts right now and it is crazy but fun. None of the have any hard deadlines, but I have myself set for 3 weeks on most of them since I have a few new projects that should be coming into after that. Most likely I wont be getting anything for 5 weeks but the harder I push myself then the more I will get done. When I finish them I will photograph everything. And then...around Juneish more new work will post.

New photos coming soon I promise!

I have a long weekend this weekend so I am going to do my best to finish up 2-3 sculpts this weekend and post their final bits and pieces before I get them molded.

The envelope please!

After much waiting here is the commission sculpt that I worked on. It was a hellacious two weeks. Note to self: Dont take such a short deadline again while teaching an overload.

The sculpt is about 85% Apoxie sculpt, a little bit of propoxy, and the rest is super sculpey. Let me say for the record that I really do not like sculpting capes. They are tricksy devils in the best of times. Every time I sculpt one I do get better so who knows how I will feel about them in a few years time.

So here are the photos I have been promising. 
The first three are when it was done before painting.
The next are when I painted it in 6 hours. It was a horrible paint job. I warned the people who wanted it that I needed more time but they wanted it. So I took it to them and then they told me to take it back and bring it back later. A friend of mine, Michael Brown, who teaches painting in Atlanta told me to come up and he would paint it for me. Not having seen him in awhile and liking the idea of not painting the maquette again, I opted for that.

The next 6 images are of the process of repainting it.

And of course the last few images are of the finished piece.

And with these last few images I bid you adieu. There will be another posting of sculpts in progress this week.

Still waiting

for the okay to post pics of my last sculpt commission. It is a gift and I cant post just yet. Apparently he is getting the gift tomorrow so then I can post images.

School is done!

So school is out for summer, which isnt that big of a deal for me since I will be teaching summer classes however I will have some down time. I have Heroes Con coming up this next weekend where I will be doing a short lecture/workshop on maquettes. www.heroesonline.com

It should be a lot of fun. I was supposed to be done with my secret project but it is going to take about two more days and then the pics will be posted. I took some in progress photos but for the most part you will only get the unpainted and painted pics here.

More than anything I cannot wait to have the time to finish up my sculptures from the past year. Most of them had to be abandoned at a close to finishing point, but not finished and I promised myself that I would get all this stuff done, painted and posted so I can move on to the molding process and production process. Next week start looking for images from me. If not start harassing me!

Secret project

It's been a few weeks to say the least. Between 5 classes, preparing for Heroes Con, trying to write another class, trying learn a new program my life has been very busy since March. I have a new sculpt that I will be posting the first of the month once I am allowed. It's not a NDA but I have been asked by my employed to wait until the end of the month before I show it.

I should also be posting some new photos of about 3-4 more sculpts I will be finishing up in the next month or so.