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Post by Starryeyes on Nov 22, 2019 20:17:41 GMT -5
Any updates to share wardster??
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Post by wardster on Nov 4, 2020 17:53:51 GMT -5
Any updates to share wardster?? Sadly, no. But I'm thinking about it. (And partly also thinking that I can't believe it's almost been a year, since you asked!) I am getting back into the hobby, a bit more, though. Sometimes, real life and other factors keep me away from my hobbies. It's been that way for a long while now ... as the dates on my postings here show. For what it is worth: I have been experimenting of late (quietly and "behind the scenes") with some "Super Sculpey Firm" and other Sculpey products, which you have to bake in an oven, to harden. I'm trying a lot of things (some of them quite goofy-sounding) and am finding that (with appropriate modifications to my procedures) that material's use might be the way ahead, towards finishing this project. For the upper layers, it's probably the best way I know of, at present, to "sculpt" the details. The main issue is the whole having-to-heat-it-to-harden-it part of things, with Sculpey (non-epoxy) types of products. The epoxy products (as shown earlier in this thread) can do a lot. I still like working with them. They work great (and fast!) for the very early stages of sculpting stuff. But I am finding out, or perhaps admitting to myself, that when it gets down to the pickier, and/or more finicky final-stage processes, like sculpting hands or faces or clothing folds / details, Sculpey may be far more forgiving? And (arguably?) less hard to work with. But I need to put in the time to get to know that way of doing things. I'm used to holding solid objects in my hands, and working on them, with a subtractive (not additive) method. Getting used to doing things in an additive way, is by itself a bit of a pain, for me, in terms of the learning curve. It's very foreign to me. I am making some (behind the scenes) progress, in the last few weeks or a month, with some totally unrelated projects, though. They are teaching me more about Sculpey, and getting me more used to dealing with "additive sculpting processes". To move forward, I also want/need to learn more about "detachable" limbs, and heads. That's another process or area that I don't (yet) actually have a specific process for. It would be a lot easier to finish this guy off, if his arms, legs, and head were all parts I could "take off" and work on, separately. I'm glad I did the armature in copper, in case soldering is involved! But until I get some things worked out, in terms of figuring out how to cut this guy apart in ways that he goes back together, in a repeat-able and problem-free fashion, this project is officially "stalled". And I'm working on others, to get me past that hurdle or bump in the road. Once I have figured out a solution to that part of things, I can then proceed, and get this guy done. I'm experimenting ... and learning ... and learning is good! It just hasn't resulted, yet, in anything I can show here. I'm not comfortable sharing the learning process, so I'll be "quiet" for a while, until I get past the things I need to get past. |
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Post by wardster on Nov 4, 2020 18:26:20 GMT -5
While I'm thinking of it, I may as well share this set of sculpting-related links with the group. This is one of the ways I've been expanding on my own personal skill set, or amount of knowledge, about sculpting and/or using Sculpey. Main YouTube video page, for the "Shiflett Brothers" professional sculpting team. (Lots of really long and detailed videos, by them, and by other professional sculptors. Not all of them are using Sculpey as their medium of choice.) www.youtube.com/user/shiflettbrothers/videos= = = = = = Shiflett Brothers, at Monsterpalooza 2012 (This isn't on the YouTube channel of the Shiflett Brothers. It's on someone else's channel -- someone in the audience at that year's monster-related show recorded those brothers talking about how they sculpt, with Sculpey. There are a lot of individual links, below, but they are all short-ish videos: about ten minutes per section.) Parts 1: www.youtube.com/watch?v=_0NH-0GVGa8Part 2: www.youtube.com/watch?v=SPd6eWi3afgPart 3: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZxRroAjx96sPart 4: www.youtube.com/watch?v=aTcPsYZXlhIPart 5: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ErxCf60MQ1sPart 6: www.youtube.com/watch?v=-MHw16zIg8UPart 7: www.youtube.com/watch?v=5g1bwwYK-_s= = = = = = Shiflett Brothers, at Monsterpalooza 2011 (Same deal as above. This set of videos isn't on the YouTube channel of the sculptors. It is on someone else's YouTube channel -- someone in the audience at that show recorded them talking about how they sculpt, and so on.) Part 1: www.youtube.com/watch?v=sKW4kkJ5Q_kPart 2: www.youtube.com/watch?v=xMLpAIGne6IPart 3: www.youtube.com/watch?v=UMUHH5A_jlUPart 4 of 4: www.youtube.com/watch?v=5pZAUnCPL68 |
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Post by jcon on Nov 4, 2020 18:33:38 GMT -5
Cool!!!
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