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Published: 2005-06-24 04:32:53 +0000 UTC; Views: 28308; Favourites: 1101; Downloads: 3369
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Because it needed to be done!Not that you can really see from the pictures, but... oooh he's so shiny! He's actually kind of irridescent because of some special pigment I used. yeeeeeeeey.
7 inches high, sculpey with acrylic paint.
Esque (c) Rah-Bop, yo!
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I come back and visit this piece on occasion...i just love it. he really did just come out stunning...I almost wanna cry about how big a pain in the a** he'd be to cast....He'd sell. You'd have to do resin or bronze though. expensive expensive.
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I so love this 
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i decided to teach myself to sculpt and just started last night for the first time ever and i really enjoy it so far. The intricate detail you put into this must have been time consuming but so worth it! Your finished product is amazing!
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That is such a wonderful sculpture, one of the best I have seen in a long time.
Wish I could do it; please make many more!
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Wow! unbelievable! amazing piece of art!!! the deatil is outstanding! beautiful colors! great work!!!
-Joey-
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supersculpey is awesome, just so damm expensive! Great paint job, did you airbrus it?
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Nah, I just painted it with a cheap, crappy paintbrush.
Thanks!
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Haha, well good job then! You should invest in one if you dont already have one-but that's just may opinion
p.s iridescence is the awesomeness!
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Wow man great work!! I love them all, keep it up again WOW!!!
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I haven't done any so far, but I could!
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That's great ! How much do full body dragons cost?
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Bravo and well done! The paint too! Got any close-ups? I would love to see ur detail work~!
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I love how his neck is twisted so convincingly, and those long horny scales at the back of his head accentuate that beautifully. Nice job!
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that is the most amazing dragon bust ive ever seen! i wish i could have one!
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*random stranger, throwing in my 2 bits*
This is an awesome dragon bust; I really love it. I agree with nemo-h about the base though; it is distracting, being stark white. Your eyes follow the beautiful curve of the neck down to... Intrusive White Base. I'd paint it dark blue to blend with the dragon's colors, or better yet..
For future busts, you might play with incorporating the dragon's shoulders/breast as the base itself. Then it'll be seamless.
That aside, the details on this guy are wonderful! I'm having fun poking around your gallery.
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It's glorious! Now that's what I call a dragon. REALLY good job, honestly. I've only one gripe with it... and It's that the base is a little bit too rough in sculpting, and that plain white only looks ugly compared to the awesome sculpt and paintjob over it. Otherwise, plain perfect!
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Thank you for such honest criticism! You're right, the base is really awful! I need to find an effective way of making smooth surfaces. In this case I tried carving the base after it had been baked to create an interesting texture, but if it looks ugly then it just means I didn't succeed.
I make my bases white because I don't want them to draw attention away from the sculpture itself. What color do you think would be better?
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Even black would be better. why not try a soft gradient? or just polish it up a bit. It's just that it's such a beautiful sculpture that it's almost a sin to not spend some time on the base. It's like choosing to make a beautiful drawing on ugly notepaper instead of a good blank sheet. The drawing is still beautiful but...
Do you have a Dremel? the soft bits are good for smoothing sculpey surfaces.
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Really? Black? I paint them white assuming that they will blend in better with white shelves... but this could just be because I have a lot of white shelves in my house. I will put some thought into black or graduated colors. Thank you so much for the input.
I will also work on getting my hands on a dremel. Thanks!
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Wow. Thats really cool.
The scales look like they took forever. ._.
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Wow. This is just amazing. I really have no other words. You do wonderful work with your hands.
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You stole god's hands! This is just incredible. I especially like that he doesn't face straight forward like a lot of busts but instead has his head slightly to one side. And the paint job is awsome.
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Crud I need a bust of one of my characters so badly and I have the money too... my parents would probably be a bit too skeptical though *sigh*
I love scale detail the most and the clean coloring
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That is amazing! I'm totally inspired!
*runs to her box of sculpey*
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Gorgeous I love dragons have a colection......
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Oh wow! I do alot of work with sculpey and this is fantastic work!!! Beautifully done!!!
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Cool! what all did you use specifically
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I used super sculpey, liquitex acrylics and a little PearlEx pearlescent pigments for shininess. I just used the cheapest brushes I could find. ;D
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Thanks!!! how do i use pearlEx? I bought some silverish color.
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You have to mix it with some other kind of vehicle because it won't stick by itself. I like to mix it with clear varnish, but I've also had success mixing it with gel medium and paint. You could probably do just fine mixing it with watered-down elmer's glue.
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What did you use for an armatures?
If wire, what kind? (is considering do try and make his own clay sculptures)
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For the armature I used 18-gauge steel wire and aluminum foil. When you're doing sculpey stuff, you have a lot of liberty when it comes to your armature. You can use just about any kind of wire that's strong enough to keep shape, whether it's steel or aluminum or copper or what. You can also use other things like thread or masking tape, too. I haven't tried it, but theoretically it won't burn since it's wrapped in sculpey.
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hate joo. ur too good TT^TT nah this is amazing though. I don't have the patience to sculpt XD
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Holy mudda $%*#@$ WOW I want to make sculptures like that
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thats incredible! i'm still trying to master 2d art and understan basics of digital 3d .i've always wished i could do stuff like this.
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What was the painting process? Did you just paint it all once you'd finished sculpting-baking?
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