Child of Nature...

I had a lot of fun sculpting the leaf pattern on this one. Looking forward to what's next :P

Child of the Universe...

He's just under 2 inches including the wings, and made of super sculpey and wire. There'll be more little Children of the Universe soon :)

2 Birthday Presents!..

I've been making things!

Firstly, I was lucky enough to be commissioned to make another Hare as a birthday gift for a customer. Here she is in her new home:

The other present was for Jon's birthday. I wanted to try and make a figure of his engineer illustration:

Here are the results:

I'm pretty chuffed with how she turned out and I think he liked her too!

Onwards! :D

A Few Bits & Bobs...

A couple of sculpted things:

The Birthday Otter - a gift for a friend.

Tiny Birdies - Because miniatures fascinate me at the moment.

I've also just received my copy of 'Children's Writers' & Artists' Yearbook 2014'.

Wow! I read a couple of sentences and already learned a huge amount. It helps with everything from generating your first ideas, all the way through to whether you need an agent or not. It's truly excellent (thanks Phil!) and I've already started writing a few rough 'Dream Cleaners' stories. It's exciting to be excited about them again, and I look forward to what comes next :)

What I've Been Up To...

A few bits and bobs!

A Natty phone buddy, as requested by Jon. She came out okay, I'll get a few more pictures soon.

 

The beginning of the previous Natty and a sneak peak of my Halloween project!

The next plushie dino-dog of sorts! The Puggasaur!

More updates as I remember! :)

Dachsusaurus Lives!...

He's finally all painted and alive!

He stands quite nicely but I definitely learnt a lot about making a better armature for the next one.

A bit of a close up. I tried to add a little extra texture with the paint, just to make sure he wasn't so flat colour-wise.

He's pretty darn cute if I do say so myself! Now back onto my Halloween project! :)

Dachsusaurus Update!..

Now with fur!

He needed a bit of a trim (which went surprisingly well!) and he needs a little more dinosaur-ness so I'll plan that while working out how to paint him. Also, I'm gonna rejig his ears as they're not really reading as ears just yet :)

The Dachsusaurus!..

I was inspired after looking at posable art dolls by artists such as Magweno and Wood Splitter Lee, so I made a little armature myself:

After seeing the picture Phill Hosking said he looked like a dinosaur/Dachsund and as that was way cooler than anything I could come up with, I ran with it:

It'll be adding fur and ears of some sort, then painting next. But he's pretty darn cute so far! :D

*If you're interested yourself, you can find one of Magweno's many tutorials (and the one I'm using) here*

Some Finished Sculpts...

All sculpted, painted and sewn by me :D

 Gentleman Edamame!

The image he's based on.

And Wonder Girl!

The character by Art Baltazar that she's based on.

Lots of fun and lots of learning here! They're both a little lumpy bumpy so hopefully the next ones will be much smoother :P

Bits and Bobs...

Just a little post of what I've been up to recently:

Arranging my Behance Portfolio!

Getting a bit of drawing practice in.

A bit of fun based on a crochet character of mine.

Art Baltazar's Wonder Girl

Mameshiba's Edamame character.

I've also been in contact with Samaritans about using my Proportion animation and it looks promising! More news on that when I have it :)