quick zbrush progress render

 here's a little in-progress image of what I'm working on in zbrush (which is a 3D digital sculpting program). Done from my own reference and using some bovine anatomy.

little loki

started my full figure loki sculpt, he's a lot smaller and lighter than the other one, thank god. I like the pose, just need to give him some clothes...

Loki

His horns are finally starting to look right!

more loki progress

more loki

Loki bust progress

The god of mischief demanded a blood sacrifice... I stabbed my finger with an errant piece of wire from the armature and bled on my sculpt a little bit... so now I can say that I have poured sweat and blood into this piece. And I've spent a fair amount of time working on it too. :) 

Horns! Now he's starting to look like Loki. 

Loki bust progress

For my maquette class I'm working on a bust of Loki from the Avengers. It's really challenging but fun to work on. (Which is lucky because it's going to take a lot of work to be good...). I've had to do a lot of problem-solving to get it as far as it is now, and I expect there's be more to come... I really picked a difficult subject, but I'm glad because it's a learning experience. :)

It's still very rough, but it's starting to look better!

More clay came in the mail! Yay! 

Expanding the blog

So I have decided to expand the purview of this blog to include work from my classes as well as thesis work (although the two do overlap to some degree).

Here are some quick sketches from photo reference that I did for my maquette sculpting class. Our first assignment is to do a bust of an existing character. I decided that I wanted to do a realistic sculpt, so it became a choice between a few of my favorite characters: Kenneth Branagh as Henry V, Kenneth Branagh as Hamlet, Ripley from Alien/s, and Loki from The Avengers. (There's a tiny bit of thesis character work snuck in there too)

I think I'm going to go with Loki wearing his armor and shouting angrily ("I am a God you dull creature!"). I though the shape of his armor and cape would make a really nice base for the bust, and if I'm able I'd like to sculpt his helmet as a removable element as well.