Quick Figure Study

Quick charcoal study at Disney this afternoon.  

She was a great model. 

I wish I had more time...

60 Minute Study

Vine Charcoal. 

Bronze Nani

Nani, now bronze, fresh from the foundry and heavy as hell.

About 1/4 scale. 

Woof.

Older Gentleman- 60 minute study

My first charcoal portrait in eleventy-billion years.  

It was fun.  More to come....

Nani 2: The Barkening

A quick study of my bulldog.  

I'm getting a bit faster and I think this loose style works 

-considering the subject is a sloppy mess.  

The body and legs need a bit more work.  

Dogs aren't supposed to have hooves. 

About 1/5 scale.  

More Lil...

State 5

 State 6

Hopefully I'll be finished this weekend.  

Hair isn't very fun.. 

Lilit: State 4

Yesterday I accidentally smashed her face. 

I spent last night redoing what I had already done.  

Fun stuff. 

 I figure a couple more hours and she'll be as done as she's ever going to be.

MUST. TAME. HAIR.

Lilit

Still have a ways to go. 

Hopefully I'll post the final version this weekend. 

 Nice FedEx box in the background... 

CLASSY.

90 minute sketch from live model

1 head from 2 angles... trying to work faster.

Mia sculpt and her stand in...

Working on her bathrobe... 

hopefully it will be completed this week.

Her stand-in...  

Baby Gin.  Isn't she adorable?

More Mia

I figure she'll be driving by the time I finish this...

Starting on the hair...

Working on the hair and softening the chubby areas...

...hopefully I'll have the hair done this week.

Evolution of the baby bust.

Someone told me that sculpting a baby head

is the single most difficult subject to sculpt.

I concur.

(click on image to embiggen)

The Girls Are Cast

I've had these three back from the foundry for a while now, but I was wanted to mount them on their bases before posting any pictures. Since I haven't decided on a base, I figured I might as well show them in their current state...

I'm partial to the bulldog, but then again,

my own bully was the model.

Next up, mounting.

It Begins...

So, I started sculpting. I figure I might as well document my progress. Currently I'm finishing a trilogy of dogs. They just got back from the foundry but here's how they looked when they were lumps of clay...

Daisy

Kelly

Nani

I'll post images of the girls in their bronze form in a bit. Questions comments and critiques are welcome.