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Sculpture Rationale

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Final pictures

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Sculpt: Colouring and Fabrication

At this point I will use Colour based on pitch bible illustration Helen’s bible Illustration bellow.

I realised the water and acrylic racial needs to be precise so the colour stays and drys properly instead too thick and filling the embossed skin, or too runny with un-even colour patches.

I should have thought through more on the steps of colouring as seeing new techniques I could have used such as:

darker gray + bit of velvet as base layer
once dryed, lightly brush thick acrylic white over sculpture, leaving depth to skin texture

Although did manage to have everything planned applied:

tips of nub muscle, digging limbs, feeler flesh bits added with darker tone

Feelers

left to right:

curve cut will be enough to give the loos frilly look I want from sew gathering technique
measurements of both front and back feelers, I’ve made the back slight too wide due to balancing body composition (stocky ish behind looks visually weaker).
by testing the cut out length of the prototypes with gather method I can get an idea of how much extra length is needed for the legit feeler fabric (measurements in workbook).

Helen got her hands on off cuts of fabrics that are perfect feeler colour and weight!! (see final product post).

-CH

Sculp: Shaping and detail appliance planning (wk 11)

This process involves form shaping that matches to the available illustration (referencing last sculpt post), at the same time making sure the sturdiness of the naked wires and structure weight positioning.

adding and de-adding clay to fit the fullness of the head and body, the row of 6 nub muscles are tricky as I try to make it stick to DAS clay (base), resolved with hair dryer to melt sculpty quickens the process and prevent sculpty cracking

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Tools for more refined use

choice of Color: we will follow Helen’s bible illustration

Detail Appliance

Skin: accordance to micro fabrication of surface (kinetic energy). I’m thinking of making my own stamp that saves time, and gives a coherent system of texture

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will go towards the formation of the left down corner image

left to right: simply mesh mashing, mesh mashing then stroke surface with wood tool, random wriggle lines then wooden tool stroke.

the third image was trying to soften the sharpness of the scale forms as we are creating a softer edged aesthetic. Then inspired by Helen we’re using cores linen (last image) to emboss, making sure there’r no dust on fabric. Will have to soften the clay before hand with hairdryer.

Before applying this method..

these 2 are older versions of my current stage, but just generally refining the thickness and shape of legs, body head as I won’t be able to sculpt the under body part lower then the neck.

Applying body details such as Fin pieces and eyes, tentacle flaps.

The pressure of emboss might change these detail so I will need to get the right softness of clay before embossing so the body shape won’t be destroyed by pressure, thought about applying emboss Tentacle flat separately then sculpt on embossed body as plan B.

heat pit

At this point Helen points out the heat pit shape could be the motion of when they closed it off, so I made the lower row pit a shorter slit to match our illustration and model for pitch bible.

to indicate the lidding possibility I will need to sculpt the lower side of each slit a bit higher then it’s opposite side.

and the top left is marking sizing and placement of the 6 flaps, will add clay and repeat engraving and forming of flap

Ready for skin texturising!~

will have to fix the head width to match body width according to image sketch.

when embossing and counting the repetitive printing motion helps gives an over-all pattern are of similar depth.

Bake at 100 degrees, it took 16 minutes give and take.

fixing after bake cracks, parts that are ether too thin, stretched clay that allowed air to seep through seems to be the cause. after careful fine sanding, I used the fusing medium Selly Nead to seal and smoothen area.

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Wk 10 home work: sculpture

Using DAS clay to bold the flaky tinfoil together, also adding weight to balance structure, base of bodyshape, next step will be using supersculpty to add more details

had to take off the sculpty after seeing more room for buffing it up

Ideas in other part of the project

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more pitch bible image concept sketches

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ideas for Helen’s animation storyboard

Sculpting problem solving

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Adding flat marbles to the tinfoil wrapping in the nub muscle area and add Selly-Nead resin to strengthen the feelers and nub ends. The image bellow shows how I tinfoil wrap the wavey curving area of sculpture

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Forward thinking: texturing Supersculpty thinking and texting and paint with acrylic, team decided on using fabric material on feelers, will have to be after baking and paint drying though

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Finalise design for Sculpting Wk9

Movement concept and reillustration after class feedback

Final Design for sculpture

the front is getting heavy so will have to change pose and add weight at back. Feelers are quite fragile so needs to change design, will add fabric last.

-CH