Well here we are. Just a bit late but alas, it is done. I am not as pleased with the final of this month’s card as I was last month, but hey… there’s always next month, and the month after, and so on, and so forth.
There is so much to report this week I don’t even know where to start. I began making a hand.
Started with the fish tail shape. Added the fish tail to a used maquette base.
Began shaping the torso and shoulders. Added arm skeleton.
Chest and belly clay cover added. Added the head, extended tail and started arms.
See you next week for more progress. Word.
me·di·e·val –adjective
- of, pertaining to, characteristic of, or in the style of the Middle Ages: medieval architecture. Compare Middle Ages.
- Informal . extremely old-fashioned; primitive.
Ok. No more starting over for this Wurm. It’s over. This is the final week. To the left you will see an album of the final progress on my future creature. (you can click to see larger images, if you so desire) I did up the torso on one photo. I cut a rip in a shoe box to give the illusion that the creature is ripping through the space time continuum, or what-have-you. I placed the model in the shoe box opening and then created another arm. I then placed all the pieces in the box and began adding the details. I contemplated having his leg coming through the rip as well, but that looked like shit. So I scrapped that idea and started messing with various lighting for the snap-shot. After I got a shot I could use I brought it into Photoshop and began painting the final image. Here is the final 2 of Hearts card from yours truly. See ya next month for Medieval for the 3 of Hearts. Dig. 
| Ah yes… the familiar feeling of starting over… AGAIN. That’s right, my OCD is kickin into high gear this challuunge. |
So keeping with the future idea, I started building an hour glass. I began with wire and covered it with the clay. | Next I began sculpting a new head. I decided that the problem with the last two designs is that I tried to pigeon hole myself into an idea too early. So I just let the clay tell me what I was creating. |
| So this is what the clay told me to make. I know I sound insane (which I am) but this is how I work best. | I start kneading the clay. As shapes take form I kind of go with them. That is how I work best and that is how I will be approaching things from now on. These are a couple different shots with slightly different lighting. |
| So here is the head with a shot of the outer shell of the hour glass in the back ground. | The idea now is to make a creature that will be busting out of the card or maybe outer space, I am not sold on anything yet. So I started making an arm next. |
I then realized I needed to attach the arms to the body I had started a while back. I then created a second arm and attached it, which destroyed any details I had. | And here we are with the separate parts in the plastic bowl I use to keep these lil bastards from being destroyed in transit. |
Here we go with the next adventurous installment of:
| …and the story continues… |
| Week two brings me to creating the body/torso for my sculpture. Here is the wire armature to give it strength and girth. | I have added the first round of outer mass in this photo. This one is real rough. I will be adding some sort of armor later on. |
| Here we have the head undergoing some changes. I have smoothed out the eys and redone a new jaw. | It’s coming along quite nicely now. It kind of looks like it has a beard of some sort, but I kind of like the “insect” look the eyes are giving it. |
| And then a new sketch leads me to believe that I can do better. This isn’t just another crappy sculpture project, this is going to be on a playing card for spit’s sake. | Back to square one on the head. I am going to keep the torso for now and try to build it up once I get a definite look for the head/helmet. |
| At first it appears that I am creating some dreadlocked predator mask, but that is not the case, Danny. | So off come the dreads and add in the horns. Progress is slow going at this time, but check back next Thursday for more updates. |
So here we go with week one: the playing card for this month is the number “2”. I have the “hearts” suite so that’s pretty sweet. I may or may not incorporate these into the concepts as i go, but for now – onto this month’s concept:
I sincerely feel that in the future, there will be no procrastination. The thought of putting things off until the next day will be a thing of the past. Everyone will do exactly what they need to do when they should and the world will live in “the now”. There will be no more famine and all the voices of the humans on earth will sing as one gigantic booming voice… it will be like Barry White and Shadow Stevens had an interspecies love child with a Saint Bernard. Now that would be a tremendous voice!
Wait, where was I?
Never mind, I’ll finish that story another time… So my concept is very loose right now. I am going for an “anti-procrastination” robot sculpture that will be responsible for the end of procrastination and ultimately creating the one-world Saint-Barry-Shadow voice we will all use in unison. Here are some pics of my progress thus far…
The first photo above are some prelim sketches to flush out some pencil frustrations before beginning to sculpt. I’m new to super sculpey but it seems to be a nice medium for sculpting anti-procrastination robots.
Here we have some early concepts of the front and side of the head and face. You can just smell the scent of “gotta-get-it-done-right-now-and-not-wait-until-tomorrow” as the piece begins to take shape in these early stages.