sculpting a more adult boy... First resin casts p4!

First resin cast pics on p4!

Hehehe... okay, so I haven't sculpted in a while and was pretty unsure of myself. n.n; Sooo... this weekend i got inspired. I really want a Unoa sized mature boy, but I can't afford a Unoa boy right now(or um... for a while. XD). So I started sculpting again...




here's the torso I've gotten done so far! I've got a huge book of classical sculpture and i used that as a reference. I'm a huge fan of Bernini's work. :3 It has his and several of his students as well as greek and roman classical statues. It was a great reference. I followed Lithe-finder's suggestions, but I made a core for my doll out of alluminum foil. I sculpted the whole torso, then cut it where I wanted the joint to be. Then I opened it, smoothed the edges and baked it. then I pulled all the aluminum foil out. It's really strong! I'm using real wooden balls for the ball joints, but I usually re-drill them myself to get that strange shape that most ball jointed openings are. I'll be covering him in a thin layer of modeling paste to make him pale, smooth, and sexy.

 

Hi! Glad you all like him! He got an arm tonight. X3


I got the tin foil out by pulling with a pair of needle nose pliers after baking. I've done this a lot actually. :3 I takes a little time, but it works well for large hollow places. I used lithe-finder's melonballing method for the thinner parts on his arms tonight and that worked great too.

 

delbelcoure: Thank you! I'm glad you like him!

Illyrimur: I'm using actual wooden balls for his jointing, because I can't seem to make nice smooth round parts to save my life! XD Anyway, to make the joint I use that melon baller looking tool to scrape out a half sphere, then stick the appropriate sized ball into the socked. I'll post some pics of his arm here in a bit. It fits perfectly and holds poses pretty well!

 

Now he is no longer unarmed! he can wave by by now. XD I'm dreading doing the hands and feet since I am typically NOT good at those. I'm going to do the arms, legs, hands, and feet first then I will work on the head. I HATE sculpting the other parts... so nerve wracking, so this way I'll have a "treat" when I'm finished. XD

 

Styrofoam will start to melt and give off toxic fumes. :3 But everything else is fine! Styrofoam has a very low melting temperature... However, the wood apparently had a little sap in it because that leaked out when it was baked and turned pretty dark at first. It lightened completely when it cooled tho. o_o; it's like the weird color changing silk I had...

Switchblade: I would be afraid that the plastic would melt, also super sculpey doesn't always adhere to really smooth things, so you'd have to sand the part of ball you want to attach. The wood has grain to it so it sticks real well. You have to drill an extra space on the ball so that it has more room for the stringing to move... I'll post a cross section drawing here in a second. :3

Kami-butterfly: Gosh thanks! I'm actually really suprised how he turned out. XD
http://denofangels.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=23898 these are how my previous ones turned out... Poor Bastian v2 never got finished still!

 

here's how I cut the wooden ball so that the joint moves freely. The joint in his arms are cut this way. :3

 

ahahaha XD;;; I always have nightmares about my boys breaking.. Once I had a dream that Ghaleon's ears crumbled(he's an elf shiwoo).

I used the book 5,000 years of nude sculpture and also referencing Bernini. I love classical style sculpture and I wanted my boy to have a little more of an adult body.


http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/t...103-0014145-7925477?v=glance&s=books&n=507846

 

It wasn't that they were different that was bad... it was the fact that they were super floppy. XD;; It was like trying to pose a drunk person! This little guy's being much more flexible. I can't thank you enough for the melon baller thing... I used to make all the cores by putting papermache over styrofoam like Noah's technique. that alone took about a week to make and then another week to dry!

 

hehehe... head. This started as just practice and escalated as I got more frustrated. He's got two arms now and his first head. I plan on sculpting quite a few heads before I settle on what I will cast.

 

Lithe-Finder: One of my friends accused him of looking like Kenny G! ;o;

Windswept: Thanks! Have you seen the Souldoll body? Theirs is uber sexy!

 

Ahahaha... XD Poor guy, he's either Kenny G or Howard Stern!



hopefully he looks like neither in the pink wig. X3 Did a photoshop face up real quick to get an idea of what he will look like when painted... *sigh~* soon I will be able to work on him again! GEEEEEh~ X3 SO BUSY.

the photo isn't entirely acurate... his face has more contours than it shows.. meh. but he takes 10 mm eyes. o.o;;; I tried 12 and they were way too big. I'm afraid that if I open his eyes any wider he'll look like this:

 

even more! His legs look sort of gouged as I haven't sanded them. Once I got them on him I realized that they were WAY WAY WAY too thick. :S Sooo... I had to go back and re-sculpt a lot to be thinner. However, I really like the way he's going so far. :3 I gotta figure out what that filler stuff is that I need to help smooth him out. n.n; It's some kinda spray, right? :<

 

Babytarragon: Thank you! I've been worried about that... the torso looks a tad long, but that's sort of how my guys are usually proportioned when I draw... that's my excuse and I'm sticking to it! :3

Armelia: thank you! That means heaps to me! I'm so nevous about doing it's mate! XD

Ami: Thanks! He's getting feet and his other hand tonight... hopefully tomorrow I'll be able to sand and smooth his legs too.


I found something cool out tonight. After sanding to a fine grade of paper, going over the SS with acetone smooths it out perfectly!

 

thanks Donn! Yee~ I'll probably be bugging you with more questions later. XD I am a big fan of collarbones too... especially when they're wearing dress shirts.

anyway! Sculpey sands pretty well... I started with 150 on places that were really lumpy, like the legs, then I took more super sculpey and smoothed it in a very very thin layer on top of that. Then I take real fine grit like 350? I think it is? and sand that smooth. Once that's pretty smooth I take pure acetone and go over it real gently and that smooths it really really nicely because it melts it a bit. But you can only do that once... if I find i need to sand more after I'm done I take the brush attachment on my dremel and go over it. It also melts the SS a little from the friction and shines it up real nice. It's also really good at getting the sanded material off the peice.

Conceptart.org/forums has a section on sculpture and it has some nice tips about getting rid of the translucent quality of SS, but I didn't read that till long after sculpting... and I don't have a pasta maker. ops: I'm gonna pick up some tester's primer today and try that out... I might hit up the forums at alumilite and see what they recomend as far as casting goes. I don't want to cast by myself ideally since the only things i've ever casted with previously were plaster. :B and that was a long long time ago.


also~ I strung him up again last night with the new head i sculpted! I'm worried about how the more gripped hand will cast, so he might end up with another hand.

 

Armelia: Thanks! I've been shirking other responsibilities to work on him. Ohohoho the pile of dishes I did yesterday was HUGE!


Mizbelle: Thank you! He's a labor of love~ X3


More pics in a few days when I get done perfecting joints and sanding and PRIMING. Finally he will be all one color. @D@;

 

Mela: Aww~ thanks! You'll have to stop by and see him sometime!

Keladry: Ahahaha! XD I thought that too... but it could be his baldness.

Giantbeetle: Thanks! I grew up on Labyrinth and Dark Crystal, so I guess it's no wonder, ne? XD

 

Tama: Yup! Well...eventually. I went to lumicast.com and got a qoute of $1500 to cast him, so I've got a long ways to save up. My fiendish plan is to cast an optional head for Hound and sell that to help me save up- and cast the head myself. I can't think that the optional head would be too hard to cast... I've cast before(a BOOB of all things) in Sculpture in college. But that was plaster. Sad Sad story involved in that. Our TA was going to show me how to cast in resin, but he graduated and moved away. Then a year or so ago I found out he killed himself. He was a really great guy. His wife moved back here and i see her sometimes and I just don't know what to say to her.

ANyway... to happier news, here's a pic of the head I'm going to be casting. His name is Bastian!


he's an elf. :3

 

Mela: *hug* Roxy had mentioned that... I wish I knew Katie a little better, but I had only met her a couple times, but I saw Jody all the time. So at first I wasn't sure it was even her. :S

Kim: Getting close! I'd like to bring him up sometime so I can get an idea of what they'd be like together, hopefully after he's been primed(all grey) tho. The super sculpey is sort of translucent and doesn't give a real accurate view of what he really looks like.

 

tkdesigns: Thanks! I'm so looking forward to casting him. Here's some more images of Bastian's head for those interested:

 

Illves: If you check Bastian's thread, there are more pics of him there. :3 He's half way molded. e.e;

Cacau: Thank you! Glad you like him.

Patl: The little guy I'm going to probably get professionally cast because he's a lot of little pieces. :S But... casting Bastian was so /easy/ i might not. I don't know yet what I'll do. Bastian I'm casting myself. I tried a slush mold on my sample mold I made just to see how it went and it was pretty simple. If I slush cast stuff it's hollow, so no massive amounts of drilling!

Smidge: That's okay, because they got sanded off. XD;;; it was an accident!