Speaking of dead bodies...

(shoosh, I like Halloween)

I unearthed this guy again.  He's been here just a few times before. 

His nick name might need to be Humpty Dumpty.  Since the most recent post back in August, he has lost his legs...




Got a little 'hole-y'...


No, I couldn't decide where I wanted that leg.


Got put back together again...


Legs everywhere!


Annnnnnd lost some limbs again...



The other two should come off again too.

I keep putting him down and picking him up and debating what I'm going to do with him.  I might have mentioned it somewhere, but my final goal with him was to get him cast in resin.  Thus why I continue to rip things off if I'm not happy with them.  If there's going to be more than one of him, he's going to be as perfect as I can make him darn it! 

However, I've hit a possible snag.  When I started him a few years ago, I believed it to still be an acceptable practice to cast drastic customs.  When I say drastic I'm talking about Orinocco and Calamity Jane levels of drastic, not todays accepted level of "drastic" which I wouldn't even think of casting.  Cue snag - apparently most artists and people (according to Blab) will not purchase a resin that was cast from a custom.

Thus I'm torn.  I finally believe that I have figured out the last big changes I have to make to my jumper and then I can move on to the detailing.  But I am hesitant to go any further if I can't (shouldn't) cast him.  I have trouble justifying all the work that still needs to be done just for him to be a OOAK custom.

So if I am going to go with the knowledge that people will not purchase a resin from a custom, I would need to restart from scratch.  I might have less issues since I've made most of the posing mistakes with this body already (hopefully), but allllll that time I have invested in him currently bothers me.  Again, I'm so close to detailing, do I really want to go back to nothing?

Bah.  As you can see, I've been thinking about this much to much.  I really want to work on him, but all of that holds me back. 

Too much deep thinking this late at night considering how early I have to get up.  Lighter post to follow, I promise!

 

Rising From the Grave

Wait, Halloween is over? 

Errr...  I'm still not dead.  Honest.  I might want to be, but I'm not.  As proof I shall leave you with a teaser photo of sorts, and promises of love and kis....I mean future blog posts to come!

I shall soon regale you with my tales of unintentional flying, missing body parts, Norwegians, the Staten Island Expressway and deadly trees!  Not necessiarily in that order.

And model ponies too, can't forgot the whole point of this blog.  : )


How about an overcooked cookie?


Crunchy!

 Christine why did you let me have soda?  Look'it what you've done!

Swirling Colors or Making Mud

Ever get that feeling you're just pushing paint around?  That's how I feel about Smittyn right now.  She looks like a hot mess.  I'm hoping this is just one of those ugly stages all pieces go though.  I also hope that I'll be able to figure out how to get her out of this ugly stage. 

Wet oils do not photograph well.  Hmph.

It might be getting cold...

But things are warming up here!  I finally decided to pull out my oils and get some real color on Smittyn and the CM Dainty Darcy.  They got their acrylic basecoats a while ago and because of the limited number of acrylic colors I have, they both ended up pretty blah. 

Now they pop!  As fickle as oils can be, I really do looooove the richness of thier colors.  This was something I could never get in pastels.  Maybe if I had tried pure pigments.  Hmmm....  Ack no! Distracted!

Photo time!

Darcy/Simba actually needs to be toned down again.  The real horse is not quite this bright.

Smittyn meanwhile is not quite accurate to my ref, but she is so luscious now.  Next I have to figure out how to make her actually look like a dapple grey and not just a pretty gradient.

Tomorrow maybe VL will get another coat of color.  : )