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thanxs 🙂 I’ll keep you updated on the boardsies, but first I have to survive EF preparations.
Here’s some more pics of Nexus, and also Shel at his new hanging place.
Aye, good news Basil, I found the boards at my friends craft store (leib und gut) in Zurich, they are 3 franks each and definitly available in the number of seven 🙂
meanwhile, Nexus his name and still much to do. He’ll get white striped velvet fur and be for evilbay.
He bears one single birdwing (unknown, from an old biology school supply from 1980’s) and wild boars hair. Goose egg and handcolored glass eye. When the light hits his eye in a certain angle it goes poof! I swear I didnt edit this.
they are absolutely amazing Jen! I wish I could see them in person, especially the phoenix.
AnthroCon, say no more, dear. I’ve never gotten smart out of AnthroCon.
From what I keep seeing I believe one either needs to be cuter-toony-fluffyer or have more reproduction parts. or be famous in the fandoomDont let it bug you, those are exceptionally wonderful pieces, not just in the final result but also in the process, color usage, image layout.
I’m sure you’re gonna get a lot of interested buyers for these here on da net.thanks very much!
Basil:
honestly, I WOULD, but I havent fount the suiting boards again. I have five of them (of which 2 are oval) which I found in a craft store for a laughable 1.50$. When I returned last week, you guessed, they were gone. I’ll try to find more 😉but if you want, sure, no prob 🙂
whiles I am at it, SHel, so his name, is finished. he can be found on ebay, along with his silly story 😉 I swear I am not on drugs. I just need to collect those stories, I make them up as I go.
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=290242312545&ssPageName=ADME:L:LCA:US:1123
and some pics:
I hate art that has no artistic concept behind it.
This applies to most modern art that are “just something noone would have ever put in a museum”.There are many other ways to get a person to think or to say a message without piling dung in a museum.
I used to live one year in Basel, Switzerland. Our art teacher took us to every museum there (ART Basel, Liste08) and our teachers, as you may already know, praised all the stuff to heaven. So when I say I saw and see shit then I mean it.what I also dislike (this isnt that easy to recognize) is artist who write down the idea and then get someone to do it and then call it THEIRS. Happens more than you’d think, and “all them collectors” greet it with OOOOOHHH WOOOOOW.
OK, must stop now, I’m like a boiling pot on the subject of art….
I’ll see that I can make you the sample design soon 🙂
in the meantime, here’s AQUARIUS, a work in process for ebay.
hmmm… looking back at those many years I’m writing on my thing I find various reasons that keep me interested more in some of my figures and characters.
One of them is the concept of evil, the so called “bad guy”. Letting someone die is almost half as hard to me than “accusing someone of being downright evil”. Maybe its just my habit of trying to grasp the reason why people can be like that or because I very much am against the concept of good and bad. every person is good and bad.The other interesting figures are those who make a great personal sacrifice throughout the story itself. Especially if they apply bad and brutal things for the greater good. I often call them twilight figures. They are very hard to write and tame into words as I know how they really are.
Then there’s those I’ve already mentioned: those who die through my feather. “Then when you start to like them they die” is something one of my early Beta reader said.
They are of a personal challenge to me, not in their character but because of the concept of death. I’ve often been asked why I am writing. Aside of the fun I wish to communicate things I saw and think.And I also wish to write about things that bother me, one of those is death, watching someone die, being helpless and the holes they leave afterwards.And last but not least, figures who have the “bad things happen but I will always stand up again and fight”. This doesnt apply on your classical fight where someone seems immortal in combat but more in the actual will they show between the lines.
And to answer the question of talking to my figures, yes I do that a lot. Now add the fact that they were “born” in 1993.
Occasionally I dream of them asking me why they are this and that and why I “made” them like that.
I’ve also made lifesize puppets of them. hmmm… am I crazy enough for your essay? yes?vandykestaxidermy http://vandykestaxidermy.com/ has a good choice and good shipping. Although they are a bit on a costy side if you just order a few and you use them for just random sculptures.
More detail ones are even more costy. Unless you have a specific animal you want to base on (ex fox eyes) you can also have Van Dykes do eyes for you, for exact your wishes. But thats costy. I paid 28$ for a custom pair of human eyes once.
Van Dykes offers blanks, meaning, clear eyes to color yourself.
I also recommend checking your local craft stores, they offer teddybear eyes which come various colors (blue, green, brown, red, yellow). My first sculptures all have teddy eyes. If it werent for the color limit I’d have to admit that I like them more, the color goes through the glass and isnt just painted on the back like with many taxidermy eyes. YOu can edit said eyes, I sometimes add fine lines on the back to have a more lively iris or I even add glass pellets to create a new light effect.Another option is using pre-hardened balls of clay or glass balls or even iron balls. These can be colored as you wish and varnished.
another option is to do them yourself. I used to make them:
http://cathuman.com/fall2007/wipdesk1.jpgGet a ball of clay and press a rounded pointy object (I use the wooden tip of some of my bigger paint bruses) to create a shallow crate. color it and place a drop of clear varnish on the top, or even resin. Just keep in mind that some varnishes darken when exposed to heat, so be careful with polymer.
hope this helps 🙂
ah, I’m at another computer again. he wasnt THAT brightly colored on mine. Darn screen. But sure, no problem 🙂
ok, basic green and where and how the grays?hehe, indeed, I am making one more of the same size, aquatic, with a big fin. I hope the foil will survive baking. I am not yet sure if I will sell that one though. But after them I am moving to the lifesize ones, and those will be sold.
😉greenred should work just fine 🙂 although I think I may have to follow the rough scale pattern
hm…. tried photoshop, hows this?
I’m always afraid he may look like a dinosaur. There’s this dinosaur artist who does his dinos real colorful. Although he has ears, which makes him fully dragon. you cant see them at this angle.Stephanie wrote:😯
You did that while watching TV? Wow…that’s incredible!
as long as I dont watch a horror jumpy movie everythings fine while watching tv. Of course if its a movie I’ve never seen with special effects my eyes are glued to the screen. But if its your average hollywood movie I’ve almost learned to know what comes when by mere listening. And hollywood plot logics.
Its not incredible, its just finger-tainment. My Gran used to knit. My mum irons (hey, if I sculpt wrong I wont burn my hand).
