Awesome!
Wow, this Windowmaker statue is amazing!
(I also love the “orpheline” … highly recognizable!)
Congrat for TopRow.
some more work in progress
Clement Garcia milled this torso for me on a CNC milling machine. The quality is incredible and I really appreciate his enthusiasm for this. It started out as my Frazetta “Catgirl” sculpt.
The CNC has some limitations due to heavy undercuts so I just removed the limbs and sent him the STL. I need to put it on a more presentable base, but like I said, I’m really happy with this result. Thanks Clement!!
awesome. Nice wood too.
nice!
Love your style. pose, gesture, shape, muscles are awesome ! How do you progress?
To answer a few questions about my work, I just sculpt all the time. I try not to take short cuts. I force myself to constantly study anatomy and portrait reference. But I also believe there is a fine line to walk between being a slave to reference and expression. This is why I believe Rodin is the most admirable of sculptors. He struck the perfect balance between expression and accuracy. I’m constantly looking at shapes, volumes, silhouettes and complimentary forms. I think sculpting traditionally for a long time before I switched to ZBrush helped me see these things. Making a sculpture work from multiple angles takes more than just knowledge of anatomy. It takes years of study to begin to grasp the abstract idea of composition and make something work ‘in the round’. I spend as much time studying form language as I do studying anatomy. But if you’re trying to get started and lay the ground work for this type of thing I strongly recommend combining your study of anatomy with what you see in your reference. Therefore you can sculpt with understanding and this gives you the confidence to express ideas. It still comes down to working hard though.
Anyway, I finally got around to doing some renders of my Firestar sculpt…
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Thank you very much for sharing your process and thoughts. Really inspiring and gave me a guideline to follow 
Firestar looks awesome !
So I just picked up a Form2 printer. I’m totally amazed at the quality of this. Even at the lowest resolution settings, it holds up well against printers that cost 10 times as much. I can’t wait to push this thing to the max. I’m so pumped! haha
Welcome to the Form 2 club! Isn’t it amazing?! I already pre ordered the washing station and the curing chamber that went up on their website this week. Come on September. Beautiful bust btw. Did you print that in the black material?
yeah its the black material. I heard the new gray material is really good. This thing is so awesome
Ohhh man! amazing quality!
The new grey is awesome. It really shows the detail. I highly recommend that you buy a uv flashlight. It helps a lot for post curing and welding parts together. I don’t use any glue at all now. I put some resin in a small glue bottle with a metal tip, run a bead of resin in the joints, then hit it with the uv flashlight. Just like welding metal. And it sands/carves really well. I have been putting a little chamfer on the joint edges to give the raw resin a nice channel to sit in.
wow awesome … great stuff
currently saving up and waiting till i can get one myself but holy cow i cant wait now that level of detail is insane it even caught the fabric detail also really nice sculpt
So excited i think the grey material will make it look even better though
I decided to finish up my Bill Bones sculpt based on the old NC Wyeth painting. I thought it would be a really good project to dive in to the potential of the FormLabs printer with. I’m printing this at 1/6 scale (12 inches in height) with the intent of molding and casting it. I just can’t over the quality of the FormLabs product. Especially for the price. It’s just amazing. I printed out his scarf last night because I wanted to see how far I could reasonably push the detail. It’s incredible. The only draw back is obviously with the scaffold type support system, the detail would suffer where the part was suspended in the printer. But with some intelligent cutting and keying, there are ways of supporting the parts so you won’t lose crucial detail. This thing is awesome
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dope as f@#%! I have had the same issue with both, amping the detail and the supports. Like you said, just gotta plan things out. Great print!
Recently took a trip to Paris where I spent a lot of time in the Louvre and the Musee D’Orsay. I came back super inspired by all the clay sketches and maquettes. The had a sense of life and vitality in them that you don’t often see in the larger more finished pieces. I did this over the weekend in about two hours with no use of symmetry. I really enjoyed it. It felt like I was exercising a part of my mind that was artistically lacking. Symmetry can make you lazy I guess. Anyway I had a lot of fun doing this.
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Im thrilled I was given the opportunity to sculpt another Frazetta girl. This one is based on his watercolor painting called ‘The Teaser’. To be produced by Level 52 Studios. Always fun to sculpt these 
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