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I’m FINALLY back on this forum…. A while back I had started work on a shoulder dragon and had posted some pics of it here. Well, I got to the point that it was only 1 days work, 1 DAYS WORK away from being completed…….. and the darn thing fell of a table and shattered >.<
The only pics I still have of it before it broke are these.
After all the work I put into it, I REALLY didnt want to start again and have the same thing possibly happen… so I spent a while doing research on sculpting and such… and after so very long, I began work again on making a shoulder dragon and now I am nearly done already! All thats left is sketching on the scales!I plan to use the wings I made for the previous shoulder dragon on this one. Either way, I would like to get some opinions on it before I finish the scales because once thats done, all the muscle detail will be harder to see. I tried to base this dragon off of a number of different animals. The neck and uper arms are meant to be an exageration of a horse neck and shoulders, its paws are based off of canines, and its tail is going to be a cross between a crocodile and a sea snake. The holes in its head are to allow for plastic gems to be put in and the eyes are empty so that I can put in plastic or hand painted glass eyes. It should only take me a week or so to finish up the scales now (IF my free time doesn’t get completly taken up by school work) but no matter what I plan to have this dragon finished and make a mold of it by the end of this month!
Your new attempt looks pretty good! What is the yellow sculpting material? I’ve never seen that before.
Phoenix wrote:Awww. He’s cute!
How heavy is is?
What do you plan to do with the wings?The wings will actually be made of fabric and will have a wire to stick into the dragon. They will look like they just popped out between the scales. I might actually add a little appendage to the actual dragon, like the very base of an arm to connect the ling two to make it flow with the dragon more. If I do, I’ll do that before I finish scaling the shoulder area.
Tintaglia wrote:Your new attempt looks pretty good! What is the yellow sculpting material? I’ve never seen that before.
Its actually non drying polymer clay. I didnt actually mean to get it in yellow, though. The color was hard to find on the boxes and since all the boxes looked alike, I kinda asumed they would just be white or something genaric(BOY was I surprised when I opened the boxes). Under it, though, is regular polymer clay that I baked before getting to the real sculpting. I found this to be a great way to make an armeture for this as a regular wire and foil armeture eventually drooped or bent under the weight of the clay. The none drying polymer clay is great also because not only is it easy to fix mistakes from acssidental scratches and stuff, if it falls, it wont shatter but just get slightly smooshed, which is very easy to fix. The best part about the non drying clay also is that after Ive made the mold, nearly all of it will be re-usable for another dragon. This way, I can make maybe 10-15 different dragons before I have to buy more clay.
There is one other reason I choose the non dry. For my health. I have an old injury on my wrist which hurts like heck if I try to work too hard with it. If I had used regular bakable polymer clay, I would be spending hours trying to knead with one hand so as not to hurt myself. Non backable clay softens MUCH quicker and with a lot less work, though. It only takes a quick roll in my hands before it is soft enough to work with. One last thing about why I chose this then I will stop babbling. This non dry clay was CHEAP! It only cost me about $3 per box as opposed to $5-6 for the bakable clay. and I think I got more clay per box. So ya, thats what it is!I’m sorry the first one broke! He was looking nice. The second looks great though, too. Can’t wait to see him finished.
So, while moving some things around, the dragon got his face smushed a bit. Thankfully, I planned for this. I was able to fix his face perfectly but Ive had to start the scales over again. It wasnt to bad, though. I hadnt been able to add anymore scales because I had been sick so it didnttake me long at all to make up for the set back. So here is an update, Ive changed the scale pattern a bit to make it much less uniform and more realistic. The pictures show about 1 and 1/2 nights work thus far.
Well, I still have a good bit to go on my dragon. I havnt been able to work much on it cause of school, but there is a lull in my school work so I am working non stop on it now. The tail should be finished tonight and so should most of the belly area. I have a goal to have this done but saturday. Even if I dont meet that deadline, I plan to have this done over the next week, no matter what. Well, the basic scaling at least. Cleaning it might take longer as I want the scales to be as smooth as I can get them.
He’s looking pretty good so fr. I can’t wait to see the finished product. I’ll be watching this post for that 😆
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Well, just avoided disaster. The support for the tail failed yesterday. Luckily it did it right as I was there so I was able to catch the tail before it got too smooshed. Ive put the tail back on and rebuilt the support with a stronger material. Unfortunatly this will set me back few days as I cant even touch the dragon because the new material for the support takes a few days to dry. At least my dragon isnt distroyed and I will be able to easily fix the smooshed areas. I’ll put up pictures after the support is dry.
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