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Scotty's Clays
Scotty
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Haven't been around in quite some time, life's been kicking my butt, but I'm back with some work I've done the past year. Thanks for looking! 
Here's the 'Bowser' I sculpted for a PA Secret Santee a couple years back, and also an old work in progress of 'Link'...might help refresh minds of who I am.
A few randoms...
Dragon I've been working on for a fairly elaborate piece...(my own design...I'm going for a jackson chameleon type design, mixed with a moral eel)
Been sculpting busts of people's pets in polymer clay and painting them up in a faux bronze...
Here's the 'Bowser' I sculpted for a PA Secret Santee a couple years back, and also an old work in progress of 'Link'...might help refresh minds of who I am.
A few randoms...
Dragon I've been working on for a fairly elaborate piece...(my own design...I'm going for a jackson chameleon type design, mixed with a moral eel)
Been sculpting busts of people's pets in polymer clay and painting them up in a faux bronze...
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This seems like the kind of thing you should submit to Spectrum, if you haven't already (have you already?). :^:
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do you work only in polymer clay or do you also use waxes? The one next to the soda can looks like Castilene or Willow waxes.
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Great stuff.
I appreciate the feedback. I'm doing pet busts like the ones above, but I wouldn't say I'm professional yet. It's surprisingly hard to do this for a living and am still kind of struggling with how to make decent cash doing this.
AoB- I have not, but have submitted a piece before, didn't get in, but am thinking the latest piece I'm doing might have a shot. (the dragon)
TS- Good eye, I use Super Sculpey Grey mostly, but that piece next to the can is done in castilene.
Here's work in progress photos of the dragon piece so far. (personal work)
Takes roughly 11-12 hours for pet busts.
The other stuff (fantasy) is harder to gauge because it's done from my head, and existing character pieces (Hulk/Link/Bowser) can be much more difficult once I get going. (never know what issues can arise in the process)
bloody good design sir
Those bronze animals are fucking cool as hell. How much do you charge for them out of curiousity?
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I'd suggest breaking down the structure of a cats head once or twice and then trying to do another bust of one.
Other than that, everything else is awesome!
Earthwormadam- I PM'd ya.
Nap- Thanks man, I'll watch for that on the next one.
Also, there are some special acrylic paints with pulverized bronze and copper in them. After drying, you're able to patina them. It's pretty neat stuff that you may want to look into if you're interested in creating a more aged look.
Your stuff looks great though, keep up the good work.
Do you often paint them up afterwards or make duplicate moulds?
Also, my girlfriend likes sculpting too, but only got into it pretty recently... Her blog is here (NSFW: nudity sculpts)
http://janeypa.blogspot.com/
I showed her yours, she's definitely a fan.
Wakkawa- I've been in your thread, your work humbles me...incredible stuff!
Forbe!- I do seal them with a satin sculpey glaze, after I paint them up with a black first and then sort of dry brush the antique gold. The sculpts are definitely darker in person, but I would like to get a better bronze effect for sure. Thanks for the info, I'll see what I can find. edit- Saw your Squid sculpt you did, in METAL.
McJohnstable- Thanks man! I love your marker work, friggin' terrific on all accounts. Great designs! Would love to maybe tackle one of them sculpture-wise myself sometime...with your permission of course. I wish I were better at colours, would love to paint up each of my pieces nicely, but I'm kinda colourblind, so yeah. I do not make my own moulds, usually my pieces are OOAK's (one of a kinds) but I did do a model kit a while back that sold well, but I pretty-much broke even after the costs of doing it came through. I dig your girlfriends pieces, really like the people sculpts, especially the one with the bear skin...she's off to a great start! :^:
(*disclaimer yada yada, I am a technician for a retail art materials company)
Like everyone else I am a huge fan of that dragon!
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I actually wanted to ask for some help too. Your Bowser sculpt is so smooth, how did you achieve the smoothness? I'm aware that it'd mostly take a lot of time and careful careful sculpting, but can you offer any advice or tips to help the process?
Thanks heaps man, keen to see more of your awesome shape-pushin'.
McJ- Thanks man, what I use is a small clean paintbrush and vaseline. You brush a very thin layer of the vaseline on the clay and smooth it out, some use rubbing alcohol too. (I find the RA changes the make-up of the clay by drying it out if not careful, so I use the vaseline because I'm used to it and it stays soft...too much is a bad thing too though. Like anything.)
More will come...just been doing some painting lately for a change, learning as I go. :P