Blogs, Facebook and a broken hand

Hi, its been quite a while since I last posted on this blog.  Part of this reason is that I broke my right hand about 11 weeks ago.  Not a good thing to do when you sculpt, draw and paint on a regular basis.  I spent the first few weeks getting down in the dumps and then I just started to sculpt again...Just much slower and mostly with my left hand.  I have noticed that my creativity that I once had through "zenning out" (as ill put it for now)was not accessible with this broken hand.  I guess cos I have to concentrate more to create whatever it is Im making.  Its still ok, Ive just used to time to get a bit of anatomy and left hand practice.
Ive tried to use a wacom pen with pretty bad results.  So, no Zbrush or Photoshop for now.
Come over and like my Holonick page on Facebook too heres a link -->  holonick
Heres a few examples of whats been sculpted with a broken hand.

Sculpted in Super Sculpey, painted in acrylic 

Sculpted in Chavant NSP medium

This is a stereoscopic image, cross eyes to see in 3D

Sculpted in Chavant NSP medium

Sculpted in Chavant NSP medium

This is a stereoscopic image, cross eyes to see in 3D 

Sculpted in Chavant NSP medium

This is a stereoscopic image, cross eyes to see in 3D

Sculpted in Chavant NSP medium

This is a stereoscopic image, cross eyes to see in 3D

Sculpted in Chavant NSP medium

This is a stereoscopic image, cross eyes to see in 3D

Sculpted in Super Sculpey

Sculpted in Chavant NSP medium

Another creature

3D stereo pair.  Cross eyes to see in 3D

A couple of paintjobs on some creatures

So while visiting LA I created a few creatures of my own as well as some for Hollywood.  Ill be leaving here soon but my creatures will stay.  Here are a couple of my personal sculptures.  More to come.

 This one above is made from ceramic then painted in acrylic paint.

This guy above is made from Super Sculpey, baked then painted in the same acrylic paint.  (click on images to see larger)

A quick bust

Here is a bust I whipped up yesterday.  I spent about 2hrs on this guy.  I wasnt in a rush, just wanted to create a creature.  Ive been doing a few things in sculpey and wanted to do a quicky.  This is done in water based clay, which is faster to work with than sculpey.  Now I need a kiln to put these ones into.  

Some Exhibited Sculptures

Well I had an exhibit here in Brisbane a few days ago which was fun.  Here are some of the sculptures from the exhibit and some others that were not in the exhibit. 

Alien bust

Just a sculpey bust I whipped up the other night.  I had gotten a few hundred ball bearings in the post so I wanted to use them.  While I was making it I was thinking that I need to make something totally not human in its make up.  But that everything is head and shoulders and legs n arms.  I will find something else.  A different structure for a being.  I guess Ill have a closer look at aquatic creatures.  Cuttlefish and octopi, sea slugs and caterpillars, shrimp too.  Yes!

Anyway, here is a sculpture.  Im almost ready to start painting them...all.

This weeks sculptures

Here are a few sculptures for this week.  I wanted to do some sort of monkey creature with lots of eyes and no ears.  So I did, I drew a few variations first then went in and sculpted the creatures head.  As I was sculpting it I found I didnt know much about how a monkey looks so, I decided to sculpt a chimp.  Using reference images, I created a chimpanzee study which I will, later on, create a body for.
Another day, I did a few drawings of a goblin which I was to sculpt in Zbrush.  I figured I would work it out in clay too as a preliminary.  So, the hooded head you see below is a goblin sculpture which took about 30-45mins to complete.
I also did a little quadruped creature who has some sort of large moth like insect on its bum.

A couple of sculpey sculptures from this week

Here are a couple sculpey sculptures from this week.  Usually spend about 2-5 hours on each one.  I start with no plan and just see what comes from the sculpey.  Most of the time is spent trying to figure out what I see and to create something new.

A few Zbrushins

Hope you enjoy these few Zbrush creations.

Sculpey updates

These are my latest Super Sculpey creations.   These would have been done over the last 2 - 3 weeks.  Im trying to focus on proportion, form, anatomy then wrinkle and details.  These will be painted in the future...once I get my air compressor.

Old man head

Alien half body

 Alien head

Goofy alien head

Zombie

Alien demon

Demon

A fresh thingy

Hi, I threw together this thingy today.  I dont know what it is, maybe aquatic...with chicken wings.

Click on the image to see it larger.

I had about hour to spare yesterday and so I spent it drawing a bit of an alien guy.  Not sure if he works but, he was fun to get on paper.