how to do this?
having normal problems getting the things i see in my head out into 3d physical/realworld form….
Can see this etherial, eerie, skull-like vampire Princess of Amarna….. started working on the skull in premier, and the skull just doesn’t feel right. very frustrating…
So I thought I would start another skull, this one out of castilene, and see if it is a materials problem or if my brain has melted and drained out of my ear and i will never be able to sculpt again.
typical sculpting process – got sidetracked wondering what a newborn’s skull looks like, so of course i sculpted that instead of an adult woman’s – started laying a face in with chavant, and got sidetracked thinking about Buddhas. End up with a sort of infant buddha head staring at me ….
trying to figure out what to do with it, and decide a short, tubby baby merman seems reasonable and start to lay out an armature using a coil of aluminum wire. Look down, and there is a solemn snail baby peering up at me.
typical. start out aiming at the bust of an adult female and get sidetracked onto a infant garden demon.
So I’m actually rather liking the way he is looking, but noticing that the folk around me are much less enthused. which gets me thinking about how i see him in my head as opposed to how he actually looks. In my head, i see him moving towards me along a path in the shadows of a silent, overgrown garden — his skin is a pearly grey, warm and soft as a human baby’s — his shell is pale bone – like the skull of a hummingbird.
I know i can’t make him move – but how can I make the rest happen? I’m so much happier sculpting in the chavant – but what in the world do I do with it? and how can i make his shell? and the real question is probably —- do I spend months working on figuring these things out on a sculpt that maybe only i will like? or do i squish him down and start again.
and if he has no arms, do shoulderblades make any sense? does he have the kind of wavy margin to his foot that some snails have, or tiny baby toes? and just how far gone am i to be obsessing over something like this?
sigh.
April 22nd, 2010 at 3:02 pm
Yay! Centaur Snail Baby!
Do Not Squish Him Up — NO NO NO — I love him too.
Yes shoulderblades (even with no arms), yes wavy snail foot, maybe the shell needs to be longer to visually balance the weight of his head and torso (hard to tell from the camera angle). Oh yes . . . and maybe some little snailey antennae on his forehead.
What are you going to do with him. Have you read “Hi Fructose”? He belongs there.
April 23rd, 2010 at 7:28 am
Oh thank you! so nice to find someone else to like him! and yep – i love Hi Fructose…. in fact, just ordered Mark Ryden’s Japanese book – Fushigi Circus? I would love to sculpt an entire garden of beings that look like they could live there – would be fun.
have no idea what i’m doing with him – though my daughter suggested resculpting him from polymer, and i was thinking of trying to do his shell from paper/shellac kind of stuff. maybe i’ll see if i can do some others to keep him company…..
take care
patl