If you give a TamanVark a cookie...

...it will ask to eat your brains....

WIP - Tunnel Mouth

This is an original creature that has sat on the shelf since finishing Jordu Schell's class in Fall 08. I really need to finish it.

Wrapped

Here is one of my newest sculptures. It's a mini-bust that is sort of in eternal WIP. I really like it though so i should finish it.

Inspirational poster

My inspirational poster for "dinosaurs f'ing robots" was featured in Gizmodo.com!!!!

Look!!!: http://i.gizmodo.com/5155968/what-the-internet-hath-wrought-dinosaursfkingrobotscom

"Soaked" mini-bust

This is a sculpture that started out as the long nose head study and became this rain-soaked character huddling under plastic. This bust is approx 7 in tall and made of victory wax, some short lengths of steel plumbers piping and a plastic bag. He is meant to look as if his hair is wet and he has sculpted water drops collecting under his right ear lobe, his nose and his chin although they are hard to see in the photos. I got the idea for the plastic bag after setting him down on a leftover bag that my film came in from the photolab. It matched the wax perfectly! There is also a major overhaul (hard to see in the pictures) to the proportions of his head. the Original head (seen in the long nose w/ scar photos below) was too short and too thin around the temples. His head is now lengthed and widened appropriately. He still is one of those people that appears to be 'all face'. I feel like there is a strange similarity to Napoleon Bonaparte actually (just with less fat and a massive scar).

Mini-bust of man with long nose and scarred face

The title says it all. Done in microcrystallin wax. About 3 1/2 to 4 inch tall. Hard to photograph.

Character art for B&B

Hey Joe and Luke, here is the 98 percent finished main character body art.

First Latex mask/life sized WED sculpture

This is the first project from Jordu Schell's class. I'm very happy with the results considering it was my first WED sculpture, first life size sculpture and first latex mask.

Torso-Anatomy study

This is a loose surface style anatomy study of a male torso in a particular kind of pose. About 14in high. Supported by plumbers piping and armature wire. Chavant NSP medium clay.

Colors! sketch: Tunnel Mouth

This is a quick and distorted sketch of on of my newest sculpture characters. This is really a color and value study.

Mouth Study-first mold/casting

While working on the below head maquette I was running into some problems getting the correct shape of the mouth and lips and so I made a small study sculpture in pro-clay. I then decided it would be a perfect and simple sculpture to experiment with mold making on. I made a one piece tin-silicone mold (using smooth on OOMOO 30) and cast in Activa Permastone which is both durable and cheap :). Original on the left, casting on the right.

Dynamic Head

I'm currently taking advanced sculpture w/ John Brown at Gnomon and our first project is to create a dynamic head with very sharp and defined features so that we learn more about the planes of the face and how to create good old fashioned depth.

This is my unrefined but essentially finished head maquette.

Lefty

Foot anatomy study. 4 in. Micrycrystalline wax.

"The Boxer of Calais"

The hand that I sculpted for fun in my earlier post grew into a full figure that is essenstially inspired by (but not a copy of) my favorite Rodin sculpture "Jean D'Aire" from the "Burghers of Calais" sculpture of the six men from the town of the same name walking to their certain deaths. This is why the general pose and naming of the character is similar (although I changed it because the positioning of the original is so unnatural looking.

The person or character is taken from an image that sprung up in my mind of this very rugged, thick boned, older man who has spent his life fighting with everything and everyone and his face and hands now are broken and healed again into this grizzled character. Here is exploiting his natural strengths and boxing so that he can channel his aggression and strength into something slightly more productive and safe.

Rodin study

This is a study from memory (not a straight copy) from my favorite Rodin sculpture "Jean d'Aire". Microcrystalline wax, approx 5 in.

Wax Sculpting

I think I've found my favorite maquette sculpting material: microcrystalline wax. It smooths beautifully and easily by hand. It's hard enough to hold shape well and it's soft enough (in heat) to mold with your hands. It accepts shaping from tools extremely well and it sticks to itself but not to you. It also has virtually zero odor. You also get the added bonus of this beautiful black and orange bronzed look.

These pictures are of a sculpture I made for Steven and Lisa Runolfson, owners of "La Caille" (The quail) restaurant in Salt Lake City. This sculpture is for Lisa and Steven's 30th wedding anniversary and it is part wax (the birds) and part super sculpey (the base). It was created in the loose "Bart Walter" style. The sculpture is approx 15 in long and about 9 or 10 in tall.

DS concept sketch

Creepy Abandoned Subway w/ shafts of light

Mudbox! - another bald head

Here is my first foray into Mudbox and i must say I'm happy with the results. Mudbox really does have a better layout than Zbrush.

This could be considered a sketch as I'm only about 3 hours in and the ears particularly aren't really as developed as the rest of the face. That said i think it's a lot better than my last digital face sculpture: http://jengalog.blogspot.com/2007/06/accidentally-looks-like-silver-surfer.html

untitled

Here is what I've been working on lately. I'm still not entirely happy with it. It really photographs in a way that makes the proportions seem all wrong. The concept is partially inspired by a fellow MTA student at MSU.

Pro-Clay and armature wire. Approx 6 in.