Nostril detail

The hardest part of this sculpt was actually getting the nostrils to resemble the original picture.

They have this wonderful curve that seems to flop - very Bakshi-esque!

Nose and mouth detail

I wanted to give the creature warty and sore covered skin.
Could be to do with what he ate, could be age related... when the silicone
mold has been made and painted, I thought hair could look even better
coming from vaious mounds.

The teeth I sculpted then baked to harden. My inspiration for the strange angle
of mouth was actually a giraffe! Similar long face, and hysterical gurning chew!
See also cow eating.
See also raver under the influence.

Big smacking lips....

Eye & ear detail

I LOVE detail! Subtle little features are my forte - they can be so expressive!
They also bring a character to life by telling you about them.

Quarter frontal pose

I wanted to show an alternate angle here:

There are so many different styles of movement to portay a creature's character, that I had to really stop myself from sculpting an extreme action pose!

I want to start casting in silicone (for the first time) so it takes a bit of patience! No extreme poses..... yet!!

Full frontal pose

This is my rough sculpt of this creature's head.

Now I've made a few alterations to it, to make it more my style: the ears are slightly longer, and it has worse skin then in the picture.

I wanted to capture it's elongated features, and the cruelness in the eyes. Also those are not the pupils but scratches.

Update!

So... it's been far too long since my last update.

I'm working on a new project which will be all about experimenting with model making.
So far I have just sculpted a head model, inspired by the less politically correct animator Ralph Bakshi.

His style is packed to the brim with indulgance and vulgarity noticably more so in his cult underground classics such as 'Coonskin' and 'Fritz the Cat'; both turbulently rascist, although reflecting the times, and outlining how much society has changed its opinion with regard to acceptance of such opinions. In fact comparisons can be drawn to Walt Disney's 'Dumbo' (Disney himself a recognised racist - sorry kids, I love his films as well) and the portayal of crows as 'black folk from the South'.

His work which stands out the most to me, is actually the combination of rotorscoping that he uses in his portrayal of 'Lord of the Rings', and his lesser known piece 'Wizards'. Beautiful moving stencils over his animated style which gave both pieces a much grittier and darker appeal.

'Wizards' is in fact the piece that I have focused my new project on (sorry to bang on, but an introduction is always a little interesting I think). The animated characters although animated in a cartoonish and slapstick way, not unlike Warner Brothers (although seedier and not nearly as funny), have great potential. I focused on the creatures that resemble horses. Or are they camels. In fact they run like humans, behave like dogs and can really be anything you want them to be!



Now I will show you the head I have sculpted....................