After Christmas and after (mostly) getting over a cold, I got a chance to start work on two new sculptures.
This represents about a day’s work. Clearly, there’s not much here yet beside the roughed-in shapes and a peek at the armature.
I like to see works-in-progress. I find process very interesting, but I’d like to hear from anyone reading this post. What do you want to see? Works-in-progress or only finished pieces? Please leave a comment and let me know. Thanks!
I’m enough of a paleontology nut that I must admit that this is more like a deinonycus than a velociraptor, but velociraptors were actually fairly small, coyote-sized animals. I also cheated the anatomy here and there, and omitted the feathers these animals likely had. In my defense, it’s Batman fighting a dinosaur.
You may notice the dino has drawn first blood. I like the think that’s the last strike it got in before extinction.
Photos by Tony Martins.
I’d wanted to try turning the amazingly talent Sergio Calvet’s idiosyncratic drawing style into three dimension and finally got the chance with his character SKYJACK. This piece is based on Sergio’s own design.
Sergio sent me this nice picture of the piece sitting next to some of the comics that inspired it!
When I was asked to do a superhero sculpture for the Relay for Life Charity, I knew I wanted to do someone previously under-represented in 3D (do we need more Wolverines? Really?). No other hero is the physical manifestation of the year 1980. As I’ve said before, if XANADU with Olivia Newton-John were a person, it’d be Dazzler.
This piece was designed by superstar comic artist and all-around nice guy Joe Quinones, whose drawn comics and covers for Marvel, DC, Dark Horse and more. Check out his site: http://joequinones.blogspot.com/
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