Cheshire
So, I have been a little quiet on the custom/blog scene as of late. I had been working on a Dunny recently on and off whenever I can get some time/motivation together to get downstairs and paint without the boys needing my attention. Well, last night I was finally able to finish this guy up.
This Dunny is for a KR board member that hooked me up with a sweet deal … a stash of Dunnys for a custom in return! I couldn’t have been more excited to have had that deal work itself out, considering some of the other artists, I wasn’t the only one to receive said deal, on the forums that were inquiring about this as well … I was honored that he accepted.
We had a little discussion about what he would like to see or if something out of my current stable of work would do. He offered up some suggestions on things that he really like and also said that my current pieces would be nice as well. So I decided to take his suggestions and throw my style at it and this is what I landed on, the Cheshire. There is something about that character that has always been really fun. I wanted to try to do something very different from what I have normally been doing lately, so I started doing some visual research and came across a pretty fun image of the Cheshire cat. Boom! It hit me, that is what I had to do … just had to figure out how to do it and if it would work properly with the position I wanted to have it displayed in.
After a little trial and error, I was able to find a solution. So I got working … I sculpted the arms in place to mimic the image I was using for inspiration and sculpted a tail out of Super Sculpey. I hadn’t done any major sculpting on my previous Dunnys, except for my current series – so I found this as a nice chance to really work at something like this and do a little experimenting. The painting went pretty smooth, did have a minor scare with a Deco marker … I ended up stripping the head and starting over basically after all was said and done. This was also the first time I had used a gloss finish, again another chance to try something new. This is what the end result turned into.
A few other shots can be found on my flickr.
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