Forbidden Love

New concept for an upcoming piece. For a while now i have wanted to do a piece that incorporated more than one head and had more of a story to the piece. I came up with this forbidden love piece with a reaper creature and a strong female character.
I have always loved fantasy art and the dynamic between beauty and the beast. I have been inspired by the works of Luis Royo and James Ryman and many others that have a strong female lead using their strength and beauty to control the beast. Also the 80's horror classics always have a strong female lead, Nancy defeats freddy - Lauri defeats Myers, etc.

As for this piece both the monster and the girl will be strong pieces on their own, but will work great together. For the creature I want to make him into a grim reaper and use burlap mixed with latex to make the hood. (Spoke to Pete Infelise at the devils workshop when i purchased his Mr. Grimm mask and have been dying to try the technique) For the female character she is going to be strong, beautiful, tough, and fearless. For the paintwork I will try out a few different versions - one as a human and another as a vampire. Also would like to do a werewolf bust that interacts with the girl for a red riding hood version.

DCAD Drawathon

I attended the drawathon at DCAD this past saturday and here is what i got. There was a few models there to draw from and the gallery was open from 9 to 9. I started early and stayed until around 7. With this piece i started off with one model and as i moved around and the models shifted i started doing new faces incorporating them into the piece.

New demon mini bust

Here is a finished pic of my new sculpture. This is suppose to be a female demon. I started this one when i was on vacation with nothing special in mind. The head is finished and ready to be molded. I am now going to work on getting the horns right and then molding them. The head will be cast in latex and filled with foam. The horns will be resin and foam. Will let you see when i am finished.

My next sculpting projects are to finish my old ones and do some demos. Next tuesday i will have a figure drawing session with the same model as last week. Then the following week we will have Julia again, so my plan is to create two oversized halloween masks. I am going to try to do a male and female werewolf or creature in the middle of transformation. This way i will be able to get basic structure and likeness from the model and the creature from other references. Thats the plan lets see how it works out.

Another figure drawing class

Here is anther portrait from tonights figure drawing class. For this one i made it slightly larger than life size. I started off trying to get the basic structure and then went for an emotion. To finish this piece i am going to try to add more evil and horror, then i will make it into a halloween mask. Will post pics when i get further.

I am currently working on some videos to put on youtube. I am doing some airbrush work and i will be doing sculpting. If anyone has any ideas they might like to see i am open to suggestions. i will start out with filming my quick sketches in clay which are 20-30 mins sculpts and then bits and pieces of other sculptures.

New portrait sculpture from class

This is a new sculpture i just finished for scupting class. I had a week long intensive session with John Horn at PAFA. We worked from a model for five days. Overall it was a good class, i was forced to do a few things i never done before and focused on the structure and the planes of the face. The first day we had to make a head armature, which i hate using, then we did a generic skull with planes. On the second day we started from the model. Another thing i found amazing is how much larger the male head is to the female. My first measurements fromt the generic skull were from the male model we had. Then the class split up and i decided to work from the woman. The male model was not a large man, but to scale my head down for the female i had to lose at least 5-10 pounds of clay. These exercises really help me understand the structure better. Comments and critiques welcome.

New sculptures creatures and portraits

Here are a couple new sculptures i have been working on. These are creature designs that i am currently working on.

This is a portrait sculpture i worked on tuesday at figure drawing class. I am not sure if i am going to do anything with this one yet.

This study is from the previous tuesday at figure drawing class. I was in a position where i was getting interesting poses, but she favored one side towards me. It gave me the idea to only work on one side of the models face so here it is. I would like to finish this one and make it into a mini bust. Hopefully i will be able to create a couple of different paintjobs and add some hair to the female side.