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

Hand sculpture "How To" and a little animation

A short animation made with particles and fields in Maya 2011.



Here is an instructional video in how to make a hand with oil based clay ( Chavant )

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)

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.

Quick bust

Here is another quick bust.  Took about 1hr 30mins.  Water based clay.

Quick sculpture

This one was done in water based clay, white earthenware its called.  It took 1hr 30min.  I love how fast water clay can be worked.  Im trying to get my speed down to around 45mins to create something decent.  So this week I plan to bang out a pile of water clay sculpts with the aim of speed form and proportion.

A super sculpey bust

So this guy, I didnt know what he was going to be at all through out the whole creation of it. I started out with a coat hanger, bending it around until I said, Ok a bust you will be then. Then I couldnt work out what kind of posture I wanted...then I loaded up some clay and figured I would go with a simple humanoid but with a bit of something going on. I wanted an odd nose, couldnt work out how odd. After a few noses I thought of how bat noses are quite wacky sometimes. So I went with that thought. 

7 Cyclops over 7 days

Here is another cyclops design.  This one I had insects on my mind while sculpting.

Clay maquette

Weeeell, Ive been playing with sculpey for a bit and I have really not been liking it so I went out and bought some clay.  I got white earthenware which feels like silk, Unlike sculpey which feels like wax.  The white earthenware is filtered and is very smooth and heavy or dense which makes it great to sculpt marquettes with so, see ya sculpey...for now.