Yeeeeeee-ikes!

So it seems this "starving artist'' thing is a bit more difficult when you've got yourself new monthly car payments to make. I don't think I need to say more to tell you that I'm kinda in the pits right now.

Needing some money, as well as getting rid of some left over scrap from an undocumented (but completed) build of an old-fashioned labcoat, I decided to make a mummy figurine that I hope to sell. Not just some slapped together body wrapped in cloth. No. Fully detailed and THEN wrapped in detailed and aged fabric.

Mummy led to Mumm-Ra, which led to this:

Now, I never much cared for Thundercats, but like Skeletor in He-man or Dr. Doom in Fantastic Four, Mumm-Ra is just one of those interesting villains that have come from shitty titles.

 The thing is all built outta Sculpey and Apoxie Sculpt over a wire armature over a combined time of, what, two days? That sounds right. All I know is that this is the fastest thing I've ever sculpted and put together near completion.

The body sculpt was about a good six hours and the neck and head was was three more after that. Further detailing and other bits took four to five more hours on top of that.
 

 Hands were the only things in Apoxie Sculpt and that was done in so many hours and left to fully cure overnight.

 Once it was cured, I painted it to what I thought was appropriate. Keeping in mind that he's mummified, I made sure to keep his body in line with the character's color scheme but aged and colored as if it were mummified. No photo reference was used, everything was all from memory from what Mumm-Ra looked like and what I recall mummies to look like: brown, boney, shriveled husks.

 The hands came out really well, I think. I can't sculpt hands for shit, even worse is that Apoxie doesn't handle as well as Sculpey for handling detail. But, its difficultly lead to really good textures that it naturally gave the hands; making them look moldy and decrepit.

 Once painted to my liking, I sealed it with clear coating and left it to air out. In the meantime, I went to work on the bandages by taking the scraps, originally white, and staining it with coffee, red wine and, eventually, rubbed in dirt and given a slight soak in muddy water. Similarly, I did the same to some scrap red fleece for his cloak.

 Right now, I'm working on his base but here a teaser image to tide you over whilst in wait.

 Stay tuned, kiddies.

Fun Fact: Whilst making this, I kept chanting to myself "Mumm-Ra: the Ever-living!" in various different voices and manners. Don't ask me why.