Lee Greatorex Photo/3D blog

This week I've done a bit of everything. Drawing in photoshop, sculpting in Zbrush and working in Super Sculpey polymer clay.


 Clay: I spent about 3-4 hours on this guy so far. It's my second go with super sculpey and it's great fun! For the eyes I used cheap pearl beads from a craft shop. I am still working on the shape the aluminium gives me underneath when I build the armature.

 Photoshop/2D: These were both done in photoshop.  I added a filter using snapseed on the ipad for the demon.


Above: 'High Demon' based on the sculpture by the Shiflett Brothers (minus the wings!)
Below: Still going through Casey Love's design and sculpting video on Stan Winston school. It's improving my concepting a lot and I'm enjoying just sketching in Photoshop now. 






Finally this wasn't done this week but I completely forgot to upload it on here. This is a torso based on Scott Eaton's anatomy course. It's a course I'm really interested in taking in the future so wanted to see if I could get to some level of anatomical understanding before.



The timelapse of it can be seen here;

I've never used clay aside from that 1 foot done in air dry clay many years ago (the photo is on this blog somewhere). But I really wanted to give it a go. A sculptor friend came round with some air dry clay and I gave it a go!

The 2 above were with new/air dry clay. I made a rough armature from an upside down water bottle (hence it's narrowness) and used mostly loop tools and my hands to get a humanoid face going on. It was great fun and nice to see the techniques I've learned in 3d sculpting follow over to real clay.

As my interest is in figure/comic statues I also bought some super sculpey. I'm hugely inspired by loads of sculptors but some of my fave statue/kit sculptors are the Shiflett Brothers and they use super sculpey so thought I'd give it a go! I'm sure the clay is slightly better quality across the pond but I'm having some great fun with this stuff so far! Really fun to work in and use and it hasn't dried on me yet.

Below is about an hour in to using it. It's about 2ish inches in length.


This is after a couple more hours. I tried smoothing the forms a little although currently have no rubbing alcohol yet to really smooth it down. I'm getting there with it and plan on doing some more heads and other things over the next week or 2.




Overall I'm happy the skills transferred ok and I'm super addicted now! I have a tonne of fantasy art books on the way and I want to have a go at working on some busts or even an attempt at a full figure in clay eventually.

Finally here is a video of the head as it is so far;