Megacon 2013

I've just mailed off my payment for my Sculptwerks megacon booth!!! I've worked up a nice little inventory so far. I've got 200 prints of The Last Breakfast, 50 prints of Scrooge, 5 or 6 sculpts and 18 gummie medallions. I'm not going to make any more until my payment clears and I actually officially have a place to sell this stuff! So now we play the waiting game......

Wedding Cake Topper

Max and Jessica got married last saturday. 

They chose the greatest wedding cake topper to ever have existed.

Mr. Peanut Disected

I like taking a break between illustrations and doing a little quick side project. This one is something I've been wanting to do since Ringling and just never got around to it. I thought it would be funny to sculpt Mr. Peanut disected and displayed like an insect complete with latin labeling and display case. This is the first sculpt I did. It's OKAY.... but it's missing something.

Aha! A face! It needed that little extra bit that said, this was once a man! ... or living peanut thing..

But something's still not right. I think I went a little to far on the dark disturbing side. I need to tone the face down a little.
A closeup of my Tim Burton-esque creation. I think just a simple mouth and no nose will be a bit easier to look at...

Setup

Just thought I'd show the final setup. I cleared off my computer desk (carefully storing my old computer) and just built everything on top.

FINISHED!!!!!

It took 7 months, over two gallons of resin, and over $200.... but it's finally finished. Ice Cave is done! You can check it out larger at my website, which is now www.sculptwerks.com.

Gone is my past portfolio life of 'brianstuckeyart.com'. Today, I usher in a new era of portfolioness! Join me as I take the world by art!

So far.... so good.

I've been admitedly lazy about this illustration. I'm trying to keep the rigorous schedule up that I had for The Last Breakfast, but Batman: Arkham City and Infamous 2 keep getting in my way.

Anywhoo... I AM sculpting slowly, but surely. I finished the three polar bears tonight and I'm pretty happy with them. I really like the one lying on the floor with his tongue sticking out. The main snow monster stands at 12 inches tall at the moment.

Ice Cave: Preparation

Here's the first resin test. I coated it multiple times to build up the ice. It maintains the detail fine, but I don't like the idea of them all in a thin amount of ice. It implies they stood still for 20 years while water dripped and froze on them slowly. I want this to look more like an instant frozen forever in ice.
This is the thickness of ice that I want. I only sanded a few small areas enough to confirm that you can still see all the detail inside. If you go at this with 80 grain sandpaper and work your way down to 600 grain, I'm relatively confident the detail will show through.

So now we move on. I've taken the computer off the table and moved everything in order to make space for the 15 inch tall sculpt.