Vritra Maquette - Finally Completed!

Took me pretty much all year to complete him and I'm so glad he's finished! Hopefully, my next maquette/sculpture won't take a year to complete. Though to be fair, that mostly consisted of my lack of motivation to finish this guy, mainly because he's filled with so many tight spaces! Never again and will plan better next time.

Anyway, enough of my mini-rant. Here's Vritra, the main baddie of my graphic novel in progress in his full glory! Despite some hardships during making him, he was a lot of fun to work on.

Materials used: Wire armature, aluminum foil, small beads (for his eyes), Sculpy Clay, FolkArt acrylic paint, model grass crumbles (for moss), and wooden base.

Vritra Maquette - Progress Report Pt. 3

Creating his teeth and shaping his snarl.

All finished!

 Going into the oven.

Finished baking.

Now primed for painting.

Yep, he's almost done. After nearly three months of working on him, I am close to completely my Vritra maquette. All that's left is to paint him.

Vritra Maquette - Progress Report pt.2

Slowly but surely it's getting there. Just a few more furs, modeling the face, and smoothing out the rest of the features, and it's good to go.  I've been sick for the past couple of weeks, which rendered me unable to work on my maquette (and two drawing projects). My ultimate goal is to have the whole thing done by the end of the month, which includes baking, priming, and painting. Will show the finished project after finishing the details later.

Vritra Maquette - Getting There

He's finally completely covered with sculpey! His feet were particularly a hassle to work on because of all the tight nooks and crannies. It was such a learning experience in figuring it out how to do it. Difficult, yes, but workable. One thing I've learn throughout the ordeal--work on the feet and claws first, and then rest will follow.

Quick turnaround of Vritra. He's looking good so far. Now to make him even more threatening.

Vritra Maquette - Beginning Stage

About last week or so, my good friend Alicia and I got together at my house and had a maquette making party, and of course, happily began working on our maquettes. Pictured here is a maquette of my character Vritra from my WIP graphic novel currently entitled The Guardians Trilogy. I wanted to do something a little different from the standard boring base and made an environment piece to correspond with my character. It's been turning out surprisingly well since it's my first time doing so.

Start of his wire skeleton:

Foiling up:

Laying down the sculpy (starting with the rock and then the rest of the character):

Finally got to wiring the feet (which took about a couple of days to do):

Finished all four. Onto putting sculpy on them.

The face will be next. Just slowly working my way through the other details.

3D Art - Three Purpose Pack

Done for as a final project for 3D Design back in Winter quarter 2009, and is one that I'm extremely proud of. Simply called the Three Purpose Pack, the theme of the project was if someone was shipwrecked on an island and only had some materials washed up with him or her, would would they create? In answering the question, I came up with a survival carry-all in which has three main purposes--as a fish net, a tent, and a storage container for food. And it's entirely made from garbage bags, duct tape, wire, cardboard, PVC pipes, and yawn thread. This project took me many hours to complete, but I did it.

3D Art - Ferret Carrier Bag

Done as a project for 3D Design for Winter Quarter 2009. For the project, we had to design an item that can be worn by the individual. Since bags also fit into that category, I designed a Pet Carrier bag specifically for ferrets. To briefly describe it, it has two side pouches for storing food and water, another pouch on the other side for the ferret's leash, and inside the bag, a short leash for the ferret's harness so he/she can't escape.