Showing posts with label speed sculpts. Show all posts
Showing posts with label speed sculpts. Show all posts

Sunday, 20 November 2011

Practice......

Close but no cigar.....



No one is good at everything.... remember that if your starting out as its important. Like everyone out there I'm not infalible, and there are things I'm not so hot at sculpting. The big ones for me are likenesses and caricatures (in a time less than a milion years.) A side effect of speed sculpting is that (for me at least), its less suitable for any sort of likeness as you really do need to take your time. So I have figured its well overdue time I nailed with problem area. But in usual style I'm trying to integrate it into my speed sculpting. It took me about 2 years of producing total unmitigated crap to get anywhere near where I wanted when speed sculpting 30mins -1 hour speed sculpt (or less) many years back.

So I fully expect it to take a while. My plan is to hit the problem area from two fronts. Firstly keep speed sculpting likenesses as I have time and secondly to do somewhere I take much more time (ie as slow as shit). Eventually the two will mesh into one way of doing it fast. At least thats the plan. I'm only about 25% happy with the sculpt above so theres a long way to go. Like with sculpting anything its a matter of practicing till your sick to death until you get it right.

Sunday, 6 November 2011

A Few Doodles

As a side note I'd like to say a thankyou for the goodwishes and emails I recieved after the last blog post. Apart from a mention on my video blog on youtube I'll not be banging on about it any further.




A couple of doodles from last night or two. Tonights went awol due to a crash, so as recompence here's a few turntables....








Monday, 31 October 2011

Doodles








I love doodling stuff as most times I have no idea what's going to pop up until its nearly done. In fact anyone who has watched me sculpt knows that for 75% of any speed sculpts I do it looks ropey as hell until the last few mins. The exception is of course pre-planned pieces. But it's sort of a trademark of mine...




Anyways, here's a few doodles I've selected from the last few nights, non are serious and all done in my typical 'I have no idea what I'm going to sculpt' mode. I may be able to show a client pice done for a kids TV thing I did for Space Digital soonish..in fact I may be able to now, I've not checked yet lol. Not because I have some mega halloween thing planned, because it may suprise some of you to find out I actually hate halloween. (Mainly because like guy falkes night and carol singers it means people knocking on my sodding door when I'm trying to get shit done. lol)




Sort of lost my way on these ones when my son decided to come and 'help daddy' lol