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 - Progress Report

Still working on getting him done. Only just finished his neck a few days ago, and working on the rest of the details as I go. I hope to have him finished way before Christmas.

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.

Personal Art - Into the Shadows

Cliche title is cliche. Yeah, I know. Just thought I'll share some bit of artwork I did manage to do over the summer, featuring my favorite creepy original villain, Vritra, from my three novel (or possibly graphic novel) story entitled The Guardians.

2007 - Vritra Sketches

Another set of sketches back in 2007. This time it's of my principle antagonist from my WIP novel The Guardians, and one of my favorite characters to work with in exploration of his general character and design overall.

In the top sketches are concepts when I was redesigning him (and still am to this day as I am with my Vaarg creatures). The middle sketches were of a mini-storyboard idea I had for months in which I hope to animate someday. The last set was just me having fun with a lazy Vritra. After all, he's the biggest bad guy and nothing is going to mess with him. In my old blog I mentioned that I liked one of the sketches so much, I redrew it on a larger scale, which you can find on my deviantart page.