This is now a custom Robin project. updt: pg2

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This is my 2nd full size bust, and my 3rd time using clay! :love
I've been wanting to get into sculpting again since my first (and last) foray 3 yrs ago at college (18). (seen here)
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So today I putzed around town and found a local supplier of some pretty nice sculpting clay. Grabbed 50 lbs, got home and started working at about 4 oclock.
Grabbed a wooden pallet started stacking clay around newspaper until i had this... Something along the lines of a half-assed zombie... anywho
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Took about a two hr break for movie and dinner.. and then came back to it until abouuuut 2:00am.
At this point I'm pretty happy with the design and feel....
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I'm Determined to make this my first mold-casting project in an effort to have my own wearable cowl... and eventually custom bat-armor. per my own designs :)

Hoping to hear some feedback!
My better camera is charging so I hope to have more detailed pictures soon.
Also, if I can get my scanner working i'll post my bat-designs.
 
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Haha, I don't expect to get any "Wow, that's amazing!"s on this. Just some thoughts on the design of the cowl mostly. ;)
C u guyz tomorrow.
 
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:cryI feel angry at myself. It seems like everyone can sculp exellent at their first try. I need to pull myself together and start learning it myself.

Amazing work you have done, and i hope i will be as good as you are sometime soon.
 
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Patience, young one...your thread has been up for just 27 minutes before you bump´d it ;)

Can´t say much reg. the design, since I don´t have any affinity to Batman, but I´m impressed be the speed you created this with :confused

Markus
 
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Wow! You really have some great sculpting skills seeing as you have done only 2 busts! Great work!
 
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LOVE the design! Very comicesque.

Be easier to give constructive feedback with more pics though. Only thing I noticed is the horns look to be different heights.
 
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Looks good! Makes me want to try my hand at sculpting.
 
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nice work! Talented!

As far as the cowl design goes, i see a few things...IMO...not being nasty ok, just an opinion here! LOL

It looks like there is some non - symmetricals going on (is that a word???) One side doesn't look like the other? I think the "ears" are the same height but hard to tell since the picture is actually crooked.

I think u have to be careful with those "wrinkles" in between the eyes. I have seen a lot of sculpts on the cowl and the ones that put in all those "wrinkles" to me always seem very rough looking and not a smooth sculpt. I think by angling the brows and all u get the "angry" or "concentrated" look with out the messy wrinkles. And be careful of the size of the eye holes. It looks like the eyes are squinting and if u were to make it to wear, it would b difficult wearing an eye hole that small.

IMO
 
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Seconding the comment on the eyes, you'd be half-blind if you cast the cowl like that.

I see some similarities to the '89 in that pic (temples, etc.) but it may just be that angle, and overall I like it. I dig the neck most, I think.
 
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Looks really cool! I like the comic feel to the cowl. I think you are onto something good!
 
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Let's see, I did some more sculpting/ refining/ proportioning. There is still a LOT to do with smoothing and symmetry....
Still using my camera phone, my regular camera seems to need more than just a fresh battery :(
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Also, here is the first rough, clay-up of pt II. of this project.
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Thanks for the comments guys, no real news on this project... I've been going crazy with the other things in life.
But, I did just get a new camera/toy/phone/wirelessinternet device. :lol

Directly uploading to photobucket is sooo easy now! Anywho,

Here are some pictures I took of the design feels i'm going for. Still in the process and debating final features....etc.
The main thing however I want to remain universal with my concepts, is that each of the pieces of armor actually acts like a plate, similar to the fashion of medieval armor, but organic (looking) and lightweight, and held in retention via the use of elastic. Something I've never understood is why armor hasn't been made for these superheroes in this fashion. Sculpted to look like muscles, constructed in a plating fashion, joined together by a moving stretching material. The closes example they've accomplished with this (in my mind) are the shoulder bells Bale had in the TDK suit, or the way Iron man's armor was segmented in the waist.
Anway, this project is probably going to take years to achieve full completion, In the meantime I'm going to do something more, common, and simply mold the whole torso 'as is' if I even make it that far :p
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If you can draw you can sculpt. Pencil or clay, your noggin doesnt know the difference. Nice sculpt BTW total comic book look.
 
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Wound up scrapping the cowl,
started fleshing out my robin concepts.
I'm at this point with my design now...
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Here is (more or less), where I am with production.
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Dang dude! You're a great artist and sculptor. I wish I could do all that (be careful, I will blame you when I buy twenty pounds of clay and can't form a ball out of it). Great designs though. The Batman and Robin concepts are both equally great. I must also note the zombie bust. That thing is pretty crazy.
 
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I really like what I'm seeing here!
I definately can see it work!!!:thumbsup

And I was wondering the same about a metal plates armor kept together with an elastic material (bands, fabric, or wathever it is...)
In fact... http://www.therpf.com/showpost.php?p=264888&postcount=314
;)

Keep us posted! I want to see it finished, looks great already!:cool
 
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