Long time no post

Not being very good about posting my projects, am I?

Alrighty, well here's some sculpey stuff I'm working on at the moment:

Clockwise from the top left this is Toph from Avatar: The Last Airbender, Castiel from Supernatural, and Dean's pendant that he wears - also from Supernatural. For once I'm not sculpting stuff for D&D! I wanted to try my hand at cell phone charms. I like how Castiel turned out but I'm a bit worried about him breaking - he has a lot of little pieces. I did a better job of simplifying Toph so as to hopefully be fairly durable - but I forgot to set the wire in to attach her with so she's going to just be a pretty little desk ornament. She's cute, but I think I still need to work on the balance between detail and durability... something between these two is probably best.

This is WIP of Dean's pendant on Supernatural... which is kind of funny that I'm working on this at the moment because in last night's episode we got some new information about it. I found a picture somewhere of a recreation... so this being a recreation of a recreation I'm not sure how well I've done capturing it. I couldn't find a good screen cap from the show to base it off of.

Also: While you *can* bake sculpey multiple times, and I did do Castiel in several layers, his head being first, I think I may want to keep in mind that baking it too much does change the colour. Castiel's skin-tone and the pendant were made from the same clay, but the pendant was only baked once, whereas Cas's head was baked at least three times.

And to finish off a little photoshopped image of the classic Castiel pose:

WIP Report: DDR Bag

I'm trying out freezer paper stenciling on fabric for the first time, and decided to use bleach rather than paint because I thought it'd get a cool effect for the design I'm going for.

B4U by ~jtptan on deviantART

The black and orange are different object groups and I printed them seperately so the positioning will likely be different for the finished project. In my head, I want the arrows bleached almost white with the robot-guy bleached less so he's in the background.

So I went to try it out (doing the arrows layer first).

Conclusion: check that you're not using 'colour guard' bleach if you're trying to bleach out colour. 

So I'm going to have to borrow some bleach or buy a jug before I can continue.  As well as cut out a second sheet for the arrows stencil (easier than having to cut out that robot again o_o).

PS: If you're wondering what happened, if anything it's darker there now! I'm hoping that's because it's a bit damp though. If it's still like that tomorrow morning I'll give it a quick rinse to see if that will help >>

PPS: Maybe I should also find some better fabric if I have to go out anyway.

WIP: Beholder

Okay, so lately I've been playing around trying my hand at making miniatures for Dungeons and Dragons.  The scale is meant to be around 5 feet to 1 inch or so.  Not that I'm at a point where I'm very accurate about that.

Anyway, so here's my latest project so far:  The Beholder.  Anybody who's ever played d&d will have heard of this little many-eyed beastie.

The base is a 2" washer (or a washer around about 2" in diameter anyway) to give you an idea for scale.  Done in Sculpey clay and "floating" on some heavier gauge beading wire.  I had this realization that I could bake sculpey more than once (though you only get to mold it before the first time you bake it) so I can make part of something, bake it to let it keep its shape, then add more clay and sculpt that, and bake it all again.  This is my first experiment with that - I made the green eyes first, just rolled the clay into balls and baked them.  Then, when I was making the  body of the monster I was able to set in the eyes without worrying about deforming them.

So, the sculpting part of the miniature is done, except I'm thinking now I might add some clay to the base and bake it again, just to pretty it up a bit.

How do I feel about how well it's turning out?

• the baking the clay more than once thing is pretty awesome, I've already got a few ideas for things to do with that for future minis!
  
• I think if I could do this again I'd use a wire base for the tentacles.  They turned out fine, but they did droop a bit while baking, and one pulled away from the body a tad too much for me to be happy with.
• He turned out awfully cheery-looking.  I guess he's pretty exited to eat some PCs.

What's left?

• painting on some pupils
• adding something over the washer for a nicer base

I am working on a few other things right now but I want to wait until I have some good pictures to talk about them.  Also, I think I'll start getting up some old projects this weekend.