About a week and a half ago, my fiancee said that she wanted to try chess again.
Unfortunately I had no chessboard, so I decided to make one.
The pieces are made of epoxy resin dyed with alcohol ink, and the board is made from a picture frame, resin, and some tiles from Lowe's, as well as a string of lights from Hobby Lobby with some metallic tape and wax paper to diffuse the light.
I still plan to add one more coat of resin to the top of the board and to modify the base. I am also considering giving the pieces a smoother finish with some spray-on Mod Podge, though I kind of like the foggy look they have now.
Creature Sculpts Steel Wire, Sculpey III, Acrylic Paints, Mod Podge
0:12 - Sophia the Tyrannosaurus
0:16 - Pfifltrigg, Out of the Silent Planet
0:19 - Hross, Out of the Silent Planet
0:23 - Sorn, Out of the Silent Planet
Stop-Motion Puppets "Mold Builder" liquid latex, steel wire, yarn, craft foam, hot glue, sculpey III, Acrylic Paints, LEDs and watch batteries
0:30 - Jerome in "Be Careful, king Hrothgar"
0:47 - Chupacabra, Chupacabra: Just Desserts
0:50 - Dennis 2.0, Hunting for Dennis
0:53 - Master, The City of Gold and Lead
0:55 - Ridley, Super Metroid
0:58 - Metroid Larva WIP (Needs new outer membrane), Super Metroid
Costuming Assorted Fabrics, Hand-sewing
1:03 - Medieval and Viking outifts
1:09 - Tusken Raider, Star Wars Hand sewn fabrics, vinyl pleather, hot glue, copper pipe, PVC Pipe fittings, etc.
1:11 - Power Suit WIP, Super Metroid "Bondo" Autobody filler, assorted plastic containers, craft foam, foam board, wood glue, spraypaint, acrylic paints, mod podge, LEDs and watch batteries, child's bike helmet.
1:17 - Zebesian Space Pirate 1-2 day Halloween build, Super Metroid cardboard, duct tape, electronic lea-lights, fabric, staples
Etc.
1:28 - Stop-motion puppet, The Menace in the Mountain
1:36 - Znnoont (Crocheted)
1:37 - Elasmosaurus Skeleton, Jurassic Week (cardboard, masking tape)
1:39 - Hounds and Jackals board (woodburning)
1:40 - Faerie in a bottle, The Legend of Zelda (LEDs, watch battery, feathers, foam balls)
1:41 - Viking ship (Gingerbread)
1:42 - Cardboard fossils, Jurassic Week
1:43 - The Beast from 20,000 fathoms puppet WIP (as Bradbury described, not Harryhausen's Rhedosaurus)
1:45 - Dennis 2.0 WIP pictures
Here are various sketches of the Mechanical Hound from Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451.
The Latter ones were inspired by this version.
Also, I've always thought that there should be a monster with a head modeled after a staple remover, so I incorporated an element of that.
The Summer camp I work at is finally doing a dinosaur themed week! In my excitement, I started preparing about a month early. Here is the skull of an Elasmosaurus skeleton I plan to hang in a public area.
Here is a Dilophosaurus. It was my first time using oil pastels, and I was very pleased to discover how versatile and forgiving a medium they are.
It might also be called my first honest-to-goodness life restoration, as I used a reference photo. I got to meet my favorite dinosaur in New York last July. I know an expert like Darren Naish could spend a few minutes picking apart my reconstruction on a few points (like the way I "shrinkwrapped" its skin to its skull), but I am very happy with how this one turned out.
In Summer of 2014, I came across Akiane Kramarik's Website,
which astounded me and made me want to take up painting. I decided to
start with what I knew, and googled "painting dinosaurs." this led me to
discover James Gurney's blog (The author of Dinotopia). I took note of
his method of sculpting clay maquettes
for reference in his paintings. I decided to make my own maquette, and
ended up creating a self-contained work of art. This was my first time
sculpting since my teenage years, and I was pleased to see that it
turned out a lot better than my previous sculptures.
