Days of Future Past - UPDATE 6/17/14

Saw it twice in theaters: once for fun, the second for research.

I want Magneto's helmet. I'm not crazy about the texture of the thing but I did like the movie enough to warrant making it (also, I needed a break from doing nothing but masks, lately).

As far as the steps went, it pretty much was a step by step recreation of the Majora's Mask process: insulation foam, glue, sanding, sculpting.

Started it Sunday and am pretty close to finishing the sculpt, now. I just need to sharpen a few things and then add the textures. Afterwards, I'll need to see about wrangling enough dough for some extra supplies to cast the helmet.

PICS!

EDIT: 6/12/2014

Here's what it looks like now after a few more tweaks, this morning/afternoon. For those that can't see them, I dropped the brow down as well as thickened them, refined and reshaped the emblem, reshaped the points on the corner of the eyes, refined the top of the dome, and slightly dropped the cheek flanges down a bit.

UPDATE 06 /17/14:

After watching the film a third time, I saw that I needed to rework quite a lot. I modified the foam head/base thing to make it more shapely, reworked the entire back of the helmet, the sides, the bottom, the brow; pretty much everything. Unfortunately, due to the shape of the base underneath, I don't think I'll be able to recreate the goofy egg-head shape of the movie's prop without making the rest look really oblong.

Oh, well.

Hollywood Big Shot, Now...

Yup. Das mine.

A Cause for Anxiety: Cthulhu Finally DONE!

Finally got around to taking pictures of the thing last night. Complete with it is a 13 page letter, written by the previous owner (detailing the events of his life when he first acquired the piece), and pieces of the propaganda flyer made to commemorate the power and awe of the cursed octopus, man-dragon.

Picture time!

I even made a seal for the letters in my enthusiasm. Unfortunately, the seal and the candle wax didn't work as well as I had hoped. Better luck next time, I suppose.

This is the six pieces that make up the flyer, altogether. I drew influence from ancient Egyptian wall paintings and some Aztecan carvings, but that only lasted for a couple minutes before I just decided to wing the fuckin' thing. I'm happy with how crude it came out looking because of it. The writing came from no real place; that was just made up, as well.

For anyone interested, out there in internet-land, this is now on my Etsy! This is limited to a number of six pieces, according to how many pieces of the flyer can be given out.

Cthulhu: Gettin' There

Got my second test pull out in plastic (the first one was a downright mess) and painted up just to see how it looks. Gotta say, it looks pretty good! I'm quite surprised how easy it was and how good it looked, too.

This is mostly done, so far as the Idol goes, but I've got two paper props to go along with this that needs to finish. I finished one of them, a 13 page letter, and need to start on the other before I call this completed.

Oh, and finished up one of these oldies for a private comissh.

Cthulhu from a Non-Fan: Updates

Thought I'd show where I've been with this lately. It's close to me calling it 'done' besides some more textural stuff I've yet to stumble across and liked.

After this, I think I'm gonna make the rest of the Indiana Jones McGuffin's: Sankara Stones and Holy Grail. I think you can see my desire to make the Holy Grail come out in the Cthulhu idol.

H.P. Lovecraft and Happy Jack

I've been seeing a lot of these "Cthulhu Idols" pop up lately so I decided a couple days ago to try my hand at it.

Blocked it out in clay in about an afternoon and am just sculpting as I go. I don't much know about the whole Cthulhu-lore beyond what Google tells me (because I never really cared for Lovecraft's writing) but I'm gonna see where this goes.

Currently, it stands close to eight inches tall.

Oh, and the little clump of excess clay that was shaved off from the statue had a little, peculiar hole in the middle of it that...well, I couldn't resist.

5-10 minutes of just goofing around.

Backlog

Just some shit I've taken pics of that I've not posted when I ought to have. The first four are designs for a t-shirt contest over on WeLoveFine.com. The first one isn't so good but it gets better in descending order (with my favorite being the final one). I think I'm getting the hang of this Wacom thing; in only four years of having it, too!

This second thing is a commission of my Majora's Mask for someone in Sweden. She's the only person to have bought one so far but, as far as the two I've made: this is the better of the two.

Third thing is this fake hand I've made for a lil' goof and a spoof I made and need to edit together. It's liquid latex pulled from a mold of my hand, filled with this red-dyed dough I made to simulate flesh; over a wire/Sculpey skeleton hand just to give it some depth and some articulation.

...And lastly, my somewhat new dog (what I've had around for a month, now) that I inherited, Bear. This poorly trained, disobedient little bastard has gotten only two things out of me in this time: that bandanna and some serious whoopin's.

Regardless, I'm quite fond of this stupid son of a bitch.